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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1128640, member: 68&quot;]I collect several types of tokens that can be exceedingly rare as well.&nbsp; One area is state good for tokens.&nbsp; These like most tokens were ordered in lots of 1000 but unlike amusement tokens the business that ordered them had a tendency to destroy every example in thir possession since they feared they&#039;d end up in the hands of someone trying to redeem them.&nbsp; The few tokens in the hands of customers had extremely poor survival rates and 90% of the time no tokens at all survived.&nbsp; Their existence is known through both token makers records and through books containing salesman samples which were one sided tokens made expressly for the purpose.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When 1000 proved to be insufficient the business would order another 1000 and these would be slightly different than the first batch since dies were always destroyed. It simply isn&#039;t too unusual to find unknown tokens.&nbsp; Indeed I once obtained a small bag of tokens that had been used by a small businessman in Charlotte Michigan.&nbsp; The exception thing is that there were some 40 different included for a city with only 14 different known and all of the 14 different weren&#039;t represented!</p><p><br /></p><p>These same things are seen in transportation tokens though the survivorship of these is far higher.&nbsp; I suppose some people save them as mementos and the old tokens often are saved from destruction.&nbsp; Relatively few transportation tokens are rare other than the older ones.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve run into very few of the counterstamps so I suppose the attrition on these as very high as well.&nbsp; Of course in most cases &quot;mintages&quot; were low as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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