As a younger numismatist I've found a niche in exonumia, specifically civil war tokens as they are cheaper. After the unfortunate passing of my father i found a small 2x2 box of nothing but CW tokens. Among some of the more common patriotic tokens, hard times tokens and store cards were about 3 Sutler tokens. I've managed to identify 2 but his 3rd one is giving me problems. M question to the community is: Has anyone know what this is? Is it a sutler token at all? If it isn't what is it? My best guess would be a baggage claim token if its not a token. Please help me honor my fathers memory b identifying this medal
Welcome to Coin Talk EBG. So sorry to hear about the loss of your father. As Idhair says, we need better pictures to help you with an ID. It just looks like a holed blank. If you can't get a clearer pic, a scan should do fine. Bruce
norman thank you for the lead its the besr one i've had in years. couldn't find anything remotely resembling it on google. i would guess from whar i did find that it might be an early issue of token from the amusment park. but your guess is as good as mine...the mystery continues
Much better EBG. Looks very much like a tool check or a tally given to workers for producing X number of products. Very commonly issued to fruit pickers to track the amount of labor they did in a day, or another specified time period. Is that a small "S" in the depression? I can't really tell from the pic. If it is, it might indicate that the token is worth 1 "S"...whatever the "S" stands for. Brunk lists two C.B.& Co. stamps in his reference. One is English with an illustration. It doesn't match yours. The second appears on a Canadian token of 1837, but supplies no picture. Unfortunately, C.B.& Co. could reference any number of different companies. I'll look a little further for you though and see if I can match it to a specific issuer. Bruce
I think I found your issuer EBG. I found a cannery called the Canfield Canning Co. in Crisfield, Somerset Co., Maryland that issued tokens as C.B. Co. in the same style as yours. One of theirs illustrated was from about 1898 and is a 23mm brass example marked "C.B. Co. / 1/BKT" (basket). I'm sure yours is another of their issues. The legends aren't counterstamped, but are struck incuse like yours. No idea of its value, but a very interesting piece for sure. Thanks for posting it. Bruce
from what i candetermine no there is no "s" counterstamped in the "0". from the looks of it; it seems that whatever was below the / may have been altered by a tool, possibly some drill bit, no other devices have these marks. As for the picture quality theres not much i can do as the only personal camera i have is rudimentary and the other camera i used was property of the coin exchange i recently got layed off from. boooooooo!
wow thanks bruce. that is very likely as somerset is not far from my location about 45min or so. ill measure it when i get home. my father just smiled tyvm
Thanks for the info. I wasn't sure if it was a stamp of some sort or damage, but now I know. The value of "1 /" would have been followed by an abbreviation indicating a measure like the "BKT" in the example I mentioned. Unfortunately, the token was defaced for some reason. I'd be interested to know the size when you get a chance to measure it. It may not be the same as the BKT piece...company tokens were often issued in various sizes. Bruce
bruce my apologies for the delay i measured it its just a hair over 1" so somewhere between 20-25mm and upon closer inspection there is an 8 which i originally thought of as "s" so im thinking you were right in that this was a token to help farm hands keep track of theyre progress.
