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USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

Been searching for this Moxie Bottle Wagon Token for quite awhile.. Nothing fancy or expensive, but it sure was tough to locate.. Thanks to @dpvilla for helping me locate it. Looks much better in hand:


Also, I'm still looking if anyone has any more to offer!

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  • AlexinPAAlexinPA Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice! Great pickup. :)

  • sniocsusniocsu Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭

    Congrats! Glad you were able to scratch that one off the list

  • USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled Awesome pic, thanks for sharing that!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neat token... .I have not seen that one before.... The soft drink is still made and sold... particularly in Maine. Cheers, RickO

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 9, 2019 4:50PM

    @Coinstartled said:
    I love the old business tokens. Snapshot to what commerce was like a century and a half ago.

    That's a great photo. Reminds me of museums I've been to with old trucks like this and watching movies like the Gangs of New York.

    Amazing that cars and trucks have changed so much but coins and clothes not so much.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Score, I like it, congratulations !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    way cool, I like :)

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm still looking, for you :smile:

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sweet! I know you've been looking for that one for some time now.
    Glad you were able to locate one with the help of a forum member.

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭

    cool addition. B)

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  • USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Picked this one up a few weeks ago:

    A little better shape :)


  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do you happen to know what time frame this token was struck?

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't... There is tons of information about Moxie dating way back. But as near as I can see from a Google search, it looks like right around 1900... I see that you are a token collector, if you can find more info i would love to learn it.

  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @massscrew
    I think you're right in the ballpark. Mass production of aluminum didnt happen until the mid 1890s. It used to me more expensive than gold!
    Stylistically, it shares characteristics consistent with other tokens from the very late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    Here is an aluminum token from the election of 1900:

    Congrats again on adding to your collection.

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

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