From what I can quickly find they still give these out, at least as recently as 2023. Probably depends on how active the nearby Post is. I exemplified those qualities a lot more in high school than I did after a couple years in college!
Here you go @INDE1977 From an Auburn cigar store Found by myself in a Florida LCS non-US junk box PM me. Larry https://tokencatalog.com/token_reco...991&inventory_id=328597&attribution_id=256764
Norris Cotton Mills, Cateechee, S.C, Brass, C/A, 6.79 grams, thin planchet, 30mm. I posted about this token before with the $1 token. But since it will be slow in here pretty soon I'll regale you again. The town Cateechee was named in honor of a legendary Choctaw Indian princess whose real name was Issaqueena. She was captured by the Cherokee and taken to their village in Keowee and given the name Cateechee. One day she found out the Cherokee planned an attack on the Star Fort in the town of 96; so called because it was 96 miles from Keowee. Well that wouldn't do because Cateechee had a Bo at the Star Fort--a trader named Allen Francis. Some accounts say a silver smith named David Francis. In any case, she rode 96 miles to warn the fort of the attack. Later, when the Cherokee were chasing her down for her transgression, she leaped over a water fall that had 100 ft drop but then landed on some ledge. She hid for awhile until the Cherokee gave up looking for her and left. So, she rode 96 miles to warn the fort and risked getting whacked by pissed off Cherokee? All for her Bo? If the legend is real Bo must've been swinging some serious timber. Sources: Numismatics of South Carolina Merchant Trade Tokens by Tony Chibbaro Newberry Observer Oct. 31, 2015 Interwebbie https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/3006/legend-of-issaqueena
The Chicago Coin Club has issued some of the most interesting exonumia of any club in it's long history. This is an unusual encased stamp. Never saw anything like this before. Bruce
German 5 Pfennig play money. Struck around the year 1900 by Conrad Balmberger of Nuremburg, Germany. nickel plated zinc 12.6 mm. 0.50 grams
Another unusual example of coin club exonumia. This is a plastic encasement issued by the Black Hawk Coin and Stamp Club in 1959. I like these older pieces best of all...pre-1960. Bruce