A Half Dime Business Token from the 1850s

I usually don't buy business tokens from any era other than the Civil War, but I found this piece interesting. It is a half dime token, which is half dime sized, issued by a J. B. Wilson, who had to have been baker. According to the slab, which was part of the Eric P. Newman Collection, he was located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Oddly enough, I can't find it listed in Rulau. Perhaps I am missing something.

Oddly enough, the piece is concave / convex.

 

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Is it silver?

 

Too grey to be silver. It's made of white medal, and was therefore made "on the cheap" in the 1850s.

 

https://coins.ha.com/itm/u.s.-merch...token-fuld-nc-in-d-4e-ms62-ngc/a/1235-99062.s

 

http://tokencatalog.com/token_recor...=290860&attribution_id=361169&record_offset=2

 

Thanks to @Steven Shaw for leading me in the right direction with respect to the attribution of this token.

 

That is a really neat token.

 

Nice to have additional information on something like this. Thanks to @Steven Shaw. That's what makes this forum so great.