I found these while picking though some coins, I ask my coin guy what they are and he said he didn't know. he said I could take them and work on ID. I checked the net and only Came up with a beer coaster Mfg for the GWF. I have one with a 25 and a smaller one with a 10 on it. The serifs are quite different from anything that i have seen before. This one is 26mm square and seems to be Zinc. Any Help will greatly appreciated.
I have no clue. I get a 1900-1940s vibe from the style of it, and the logo, but that's all. The logo is distinctive enough that if you did stumble across any pictures, it would help nail the ID, but unfortunately it doesn't give you much to work with with just those three initials, does it? It might not even be American. The fact that it's zinc and has a "double-V" style "W" gives me a German vibe, from the era between the two World Wars. But that's just completely wild speculation and rambling, and is just as likely to be wrong as right. Obviously I have no idea. Just "thinking out loud".
So we're agreed, then. WW2 (-ish) era German seems very plausible to me. The font and especially the zinc.
... but a concentration camp piece would likely have the letters "KL" for konzentrationslager, I would expect. And it does not have a monetary denomination in pfennigs (not that the absence of that means anything). Maybe a counter or check given for 25 units of piecework or whatever? The "F" for "factory" (or, if German, fabrik)?
Really looks like some sort of "company store" token. There were lots of these around in the numerous company towns. I could be wrong, but it really has the look of something that was used for purchases in company run establishments.
Makes sense. WW2-era German-occupied Netherlands, maybe? That would explain the zinc, though I suppose it's not out of the question that the Dutch struck zinc tokens on their own.
