Metal Detecting find! Need some help. : )

Found this copper token while Metal detecting near an old cellar hole. I also found an 1838 Large cent. It's looks like copper, weighs 3.37 grams and is about the size of a Nickel but thinner. It also, as you can see has denticles around it.
The location was down an old dirt road with two cellar holes nearby is an old farm field.
Also found is this Button.
What do you all think it might be?

 

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505 - for the token.

That's a riddle for y'all

 

It very well could be a picker token. Picker tokens with only initials and maybe a number were used very widely in the northeast. Usually they're almost impossible to attribute unless they were acquired from the original owner(s).

If you don't mind sharing the exact location (maybe through private messaging), I might be able to attribute it using genealogy websites, old maps and the U.S. Census records.

 

The token looks to be a merchant piece or more likely an arcade token. No value on it but arcade tokens don't always need such. Not much information to go on trying to attributing it. Good luck.

Bruce

 

Love token?

 

The DV is a token from someone with the initials DV.
The button is just that, a button.

 

Here are some examples of picker tokens from the northeast. I don't have any with initials only, but they do exist. I should also note that there are some store/cigar/bar tokens and many cannery tokens that also have all incuse lettering, initials (or abbreviated company name), and a number.

Egbert Joseph Kelley




William Thomas Gaylor



Unattributed Maverick



Benjamin Franklin Mewshaw