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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1025818, member: 4703&quot;]Probably a &quot;Hard Times Token&quot; from the 1830-40&#039;s, when merchants issued metallic tokens to help overcome an extreme shortage of small change.&nbsp; The tokens were generally, like yours, only redeemable at the issuing business.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a Pratt City in Alabama, near Birmingham, and another in Kansas, near Witchita, but there is nothing on your token to indicate whether the Union Saloon was located in one of those towns, or some other Pratt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most Hard Times Tokens have relatively nominal values, and those with greater value can only realize it if you locate a collector whose specialty requires him/her to have that particular piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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