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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 7592887, member: 1886&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting tokens for 15+ years and specifically trade tokens for about 18 months.Trade tokens are definitely&nbsp; &quot;their own animal&quot;&nbsp; with a lot of variables that factor into prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example,&nbsp; different states have different levels of popularity. Western states seem to be the most popular. Different types of&nbsp; tokens have different levels of popularity ie saloon tokens, or mining tokens will usually be way more popular than&nbsp; confectionery tokens.&nbsp; So a saloon token from a mining town in Colorado will likely be worth a lot more then a confectionery token from Atlanta, Geogia. Then&nbsp; there&#039;s the towns themselves. A town with a low number of businesses that issued&nbsp; tokens is better than a town with many. Town names may also&nbsp; play a&nbsp; part. I like towns with weird names like Ashepoo S.C. And of course the numbers of pieces estimated to exist plays a big part.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading is not as psycho with trade tokens as it is with coins. I&#039;ve seen images of trade tokens that were so scuzzy&nbsp; looking most coin collectors would, at first, be tempted to throw them in the garbage. And yet they sold on ebay for $2,000. This goes back to pieces that exist. Scuzzy or not, if only two pieces exist&nbsp; and you really want that town and merchant, your options are pretty limited.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are but a few things that affect&nbsp; values of trade tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;For prices you can always check TokenCatalog.com&nbsp; But with me, in most cases, pricing has always been&nbsp; a &quot;flying by the seat of your pants&quot; episode.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also the National Token Collectors Association. Membership is $18 for the digital version of Talkin&#039; Tokens--the association&#039;s journal.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a column in TT called On The Net by Kern Wilson. Every month&nbsp; he goes over a sample of&nbsp; tokens sold&nbsp; on ebay usually at $300 and up. He makes short&nbsp; comments about the tokens&nbsp; and sale prices. You can learn an aweful lot about merchant tokens just reading that column. And he&#039;s been at for five years and it&#039;s all archived and available to members.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://tokencollectors.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tokencollectors.org/" rel="nofollow">http://tokencollectors.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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