What is this? Obviously its from Chico, California. But what is it? It looks like a casino chip or something. Any1 know? How much is it worth?
Before it burned down in February, 1970, the Silver Room was a bar in downtown Chico, a city north of Sacramento. Value? It's probably cu-ni, worth a buck or so.
It's undoubtedly metal, but the people who make commercial trade tokens have been known to use copper, bronze, brass, zinc, pewter, pot metal, cu-ni, steel, aluminum, and just about any other type of metal you can think of. (Sometimes plastic, and even wood - as in wooden nickel), and occasionally gold or silver. Unless you can find the maker or the original purchaser who ordered it, about the only way to tell for sure is to have a metallurgist test it. Your description of "heavy" and its silvery color narrow the choices somewhat, which is why I originally guessed cu-ni.
Well maybe it was made by the Lombardo mint - here is a linkhttp://www.lombardomint.com/english/products.htm. Maybe you can contact them for more information. Assuming they made it of course.
