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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1460832, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;d be interested if anyone comes up with more on this one.&nbsp; What really strikes me as unusual is that the coin is marked &#039;Sterling&#039;.&nbsp; Advertising tokens are usually pot metal.&nbsp; I&#039;m trying to come up with a scenario where someone would produce this item and the only idea I get is that you might have been given one of these (worth about 50 cents at the time the book came out - but that was a lot of money then) when you signed up for an investment seminar run by the author.&nbsp; I recall as a boy when my mother received an ad with a whole paper dollar in an ad stating that this was the start of the big savings she might enjoy by doing business with that company.&nbsp; Neither of us could ever again throw out an ad without opening it and looking for the dollar.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The item reminds me of my pot metal token below which was supposedly given out in 1898 to participants in a bicycle race by the manufacturer of the sponsoring bicycle.&nbsp; Both items show an interest in classical culture and coinage that is not very widespread today.&nbsp; I doubt any merchant in Syracuse NY would think of copying a Syracuse, Sicily, dekadrachm for advertising today but in 1898 I suspect a huge majority of the residents of that city knew where their city&#039;s name came from.&nbsp; These now sell on eBay as fakes without mention of the company name and date that appear on the item. </p><p><br /></p><p>Stearns Bicycle token, 1898</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]182550.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Who knows other copies of classical coins used in a way similar to these two?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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