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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 627417, member: 4580&quot;]This may help.&nbsp; : )</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The typical usage for tokens in a general store such as this, were to pay farming families for goods, such as eggs, milk, cheese, fence posts, etc. They were also used to extend credit, which simplified bookkeeping. Frank Lugert and Mark Sauerberg jointly operated a liquor store southwest of the business district of Lugert, and it is possible that the tokens were used there.&nbsp; (The liquor store / saloon was in business sometime between 1901 and 1905, predating the 1914 date stamped on the tokens, but there remains the possiblity that some liquor was available to locals after the 1914 date.)&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Source:&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://members.fortunecity.com/tokenguy/tokentales/page34.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://members.fortunecity.com/tokenguy/tokentales/page34.htm" rel="nofollow">http://members.fortunecity.com/tokenguy/tokentales/page34.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Source:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundsville,_West_Virginia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundsville,_West_Virginia" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundsville,_West_Virginia</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Source:</p><p><a href="http://www.pnna.org/reference/trade_tokens.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pnna.org/reference/trade_tokens.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pnna.org/reference/trade_tokens.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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