Good for token, found in garden today.Must have been store or building on the site? Got to buy a metal detector!!!! obverse wording, whitehouse or whitehorse? bar, is the size of nickle, so is it of value? thanks, ozarktravler:hail:
I was thinking the same thing. It just looks like an ordinary token to me? I have a lot of old tokens, and just because it is old, does not mean it is rare!
That reverse is extremely common on "Good For" tokens. It would be much more helpful if you would post the obverse. The reverse does not match the description of the WHITE HOUSE SALOON (San Antonio, TX) in my copy of United States Trade Tokens 1866 - 1889 by Rulau. Your token is damaged and is probably not worth very much, unless, of course, it is "extremely rare".
I just won that book on the bay this week Hobo, I cannot wait for it to arrive, I'll post it in the books thread
Jon, It is not listed in the Index but that does not necessarily mean it is not somewhere in the book. Plus, my copy of the book was copyrighted 1988; I'm sure many more tokens have been added to the list over the last 20 years.
Jack, You should like the book. Tokens are interesting. I had no idea how many different tokens there were until I bought the set of books by Rulau.
BAR token obverse, AND why rare token Rare. because not on ebay, rare because not used, rare to find drink for 5 cents, rare because someone said belonged to the James gang!:whistle: haha ,yep ground about eat it up, just curious where this bar token originated? thanks, ozarktravler
It's a neat find, but probably not worth much. Your next step could be to research the history of the area and learn a little about the business that issued it and what happened to them.
