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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1954531, member: 15199&quot;]It is called various names such as merchant token, trade token,&nbsp; &quot;Good for&quot; token,&nbsp; and other names. They were issued by usually a merchant as an inducement to shop&nbsp; their stores. They were generally before newspaper coupons and certainly well before electronic coupons. They are a curiosity today as the expense of making them is much more than paper coupons or internet &quot;print your own coupon&quot;. Most long term collector has a few to thousands of these, and they are a specialized associated area of collecting.&nbsp; Internet searches will give you some references and there are reference books on them. They are not a big area for me personally. There are multitudes of fakes, facsimiles, fantasy issues of the rarer ones. Here is one url to help give you an idea.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/otherstates/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/otherstates/" rel="nofollow">http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/otherstates/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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