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Message:: [QUOTE="longnine009, post: 4298522, member: 1886"]J.A Coleman Jr. Good for 25c Hardeeville S.C aluminum, thin planchet, 2.0 grams, 28.5mm, rotated 90 degrees, Chibbaro Hard-3 Hardeeville today is small town near Hilton head and the S.C and Ga. border. J.A (James Amascus) Coleman Jr. operated a Naval Stores business from the late 1910's until the late 1920's. He also owned a general store where his Naval Stores employees used the tokens.  Ref: Tony Chibbaro--Numismatics of South Carolina Merchant Trade Tokens For those unfamiliar with the term Naval Stores, they were materials derived from pine trees and used on wooden ships. For example tar, derived by intense heat to pine logs was used to waterproof ships ropes. Pitch derived from cooking off the water in tar was used to fill the gaps in ships planks. Tar and pitch production in North Carolina is how the name Tar heels came about. Turpentine was distilled from pine resin also called gum and was used in paints and varnishes. A by product of turpentine distillation, besides camp explosions and fires, was rosin. Rosin has strong gripping properties. Baseball players use it and fiddle players "rosin up the bow." Naval Stores was a huge business in the 1800's into the early 1900's. Some people in the  Southeast spent their entire lives, from child to elder,  "gathering gum" from pine trees. [ATTACH=full]1094103[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1094105[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]