Tokens

A 25th anniversary of the assignation of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Proof again.

 

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A Sunoco token from 2000 for Presidents. Not the first time they have done this.

 

This token is for a street car. They were also called electric cars and railway cars. Some companies called them a combination of the names. I’ve also called them street cars as that the name from where I was raised as a kid. They still run on rails in the middle of a paved street yo this day in certain areas.

 

That's even more unusual than a zinc token. A great piece thanks for showing it.

Bruce

 

This one is special to me. When I worked and managed a post office in the southern part of the county where I live I delivered mail to this mail and his wife. He past away about 10-12 years ago. Never knew he was a coin dealer until I saw this token. I knew he was a collector, especially of higher priced gold coins. Him and his wife were very nice people.
I bought a large collection of coins that had a number of tokens. Since I’m just starting to go through the ones I bought several years ago I found this in the lot. Boy was I surprised but it reminded me of him.

 

Now that's a token that has a personal connection to you. I have something similar. I came across a token that was issued by a coin shop where I used to buy coins years ago. It adds a personal touch to your collection.

Bruce

 

I had a few political tokens from Henry Clay running in 1840 and '48 but I can't find them.

 

Yes it does. I’m sure you still have yours. Feel free to post it here.

 

My Kellogg & Co 1854 San Francisco California $20 good piece copy. I like the KELLOGG & CO logo where LIBERTY is supposed to be. The word COPY is on the reverse above the stars.

I recently picked this one up, well a few years ago but I’m just now looking at it. It’s a 1849 PURE GOLD TEN DOLLARS until you look at the other side. Under the SS in HOLINESS is a faint word that doubled. That word is COPY.

 

A nice Civil War Token that’s an error. On the reverse the word SPOT is misspelled as SPOOT.

 

Although I have no photo, since I don't have the equipment to capture it anyway, I have a question about a very old, probably 17th century token. I imagine that it is a trade token of some sort, but is very worn and well-used. One one side I can decipher "trestle" on the top of one side, and "London" on the bottom. In the center is some type of symbol or sign, with some smaller lettering around it, but too worn down to read. It is about the size of a farthing, or maybe a little smaller. The other side is completely worn away. The books and references say that there were many 17th century trade tokens, but I can't find one like mine. I will attempt to have someone try to take a photo, but it's VERY worn. Any ideas?

 

I did a somewhat brief search, no luck. An image would be helpful if you can get one.

 

There are approximately 20,000 different 17th century tokens from the British Isles. A photograph would be quite helpful in attempting to assist you.

Meanwhile whilst on the subject of 17th century tokens they were issued from ca. 1649 until 1672 whence their issuance was banned by the crown.



A halfpenny of Joseph Russell of Arundel West Sussex.


A 1668 halfpenny from Thomas Ewin in Cambridge - the candlestick maker.


Another 1668 halfpenny in brass from Edward Purcell from Thornborough Bucks.



A 1670 farthing, a municipal issue from Beccles in Suffolk - with a sheep pen and sheep!



George Godfrey of Salisbury, Wiltshire issued his token in 1659 - this is my favourite token for a particular reason - he had a very common profession for the time - a rat catcher - but he is the only known rat catcher to have issued a token and these are quite scarce. Notice the ubiquitous rat on the front of the token.



Tokens were also issued in Ireland - though they are a little scarcer than the tokens from Great Britain - however this token has a neat little tale attached to it -it was unearthed in 2008 in Lancashire, in England by a detectorist - because it was an unusual find being an Irish token that obviously travelled to Lancashire in the 17th century it was reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the finder/seller had to secure an export license to send it out of the country to me. This token was issued by Mic Wilson in Dublin in 1672.

 

I forgot to place in the orig post, but both "tresle" and "London" are incuse, not normal raised letters. But the "s" in tresle may be a "B", not an "s", so it spells "treble", not tresle. I had/have no way to change the "trestle" that I put above to what now looks like treble or tresle. Sorry for the confusion. You combine bad eyes to worn token and you get various fits.

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I forgot to place in the orig post, but both "tresle" and "London" are incuse, not normal raised letters. But the "s" in tresle may be a "B", not an "s", so it spells "treble", not tresle. I had/have no way to change the "trestle" that I put above to what now looks like treble or tresle. Sorry for the confusion. You combine bad eyes to worn token and you get various fits.

Please delete this duplicate post. Thank you.

 

Well, this Token post of mine has taken a very sharp turn. While googling around, I think that my trade token is, in fact, a 17th-18th century flat button. However there is no connecting mechanism on my perfectly flat copper/brass small round piece of metal. I have found a few items very similar looking, so I'm pretty sure that it is a button and not a token, but still quite old. The "Treble" stamped at the top means the highest quality of gilding that used to be on it and you can't see where the tab was ever connected to the flat disc. Oh, well, googling helped.

 

Still going through them.

 

Here’s two copper tokens I found in my unpacked boxes. The other side is a generic Liberty.