Can anyone give me more information on this Exonumia?
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No idea.
What did skate keys look like? I could never skate.
When I was a little kid my sister was pretty good at roller skating and her skate keys looked like actual clock keys - never a round coin facsimile.
EDIT: Picture of older skate keys..............
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Not much help but there is a franchise called United Skates Of America Roller Rinks.
pretty much what i remember our looking like. not too dissimilar from vending machine keys, imo.
I'm thinking back then all the keys worked on everything similar as nobody even thought of crime from people they knew would steal from them. Just like the codes for the electronic garage openers back then, there was only like 5 different and as kids we'd ride our bikes around the neighborhood opening up all the neighbors garage doors -
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
I had skate keys as a kid... We did a lot of skating then... Just like the ones posted above. No idea what that is in the OP though...Cheers, RickO
Perhaps the OP has posted a work in progress and just never finished
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It may have been struck from a deliberately mutilated token die. Perhaps the maker/company that intended to use them feared prosecution for counterfeiting. At a later date some struck some examples from the cancelled/mutilated dies for who knows what reason and this example found its way into actual circulation.
Is it perhaps just a strike thru?
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
Yeah, probably said ONE PAIR as in rental or something like that on the back and it looked too much like a coin so they routed a deep bar across the reverse die to obliterate the "denomination." The obverse may have had a full Mercury dime head on it and the Feds took offense so they ground virtually everything off of it.
I have this in my collection of ephemera. Instead of’United’ mine say ‘Unique’ skates of America. Not sure if related or not but almost has to be.