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And just like that I love tokens again...

KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭✭✭

Bought a small lot last weekend...
Full disclosure, it was kind of a nonsense lot because what got my attention were some VERY heavily worn vintage casino chips. The thick metal kind the size of Morgan dollars. I was buying them to randomly use as card protectors when playing in poker tournaments.

The lot, which literally cost me a few bucks, included a couple other tokens and omg I'm in love!
I honestly have never bought a token in my adult life. I managed to save a few fun ones from my childhood in the 70's and 80's, mostly arcade and museum tokens.

I was grinning like a moron when these came out of the package lol

I'm totally smitten by this fella and his wonderfully fun butt :smiley:
Looks like it was gently gold plated originally, it's a typical quarter sized token.
Question: With no value on it, would this have been used for something other than advertising?


I'm just loving everything about this one, about the size of a large dollar.
This has such a warm and positive vibe, think I'm going to Verdicare it.
I was a Cub Scout, graduated from Webelos with my Arrow of Light and then never got to do the Boy Scouts because my parents were working and in college and so the time wasn't available. Pretty sure this token is from long before my Cub Scout time...anyone know about when it's from?


Coins are Neato!

"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu... I really like the Pig token, funny reverse. I had a couple of those Boy Scout tokens as a kid in the fifties.... May still have one in an old box somewhere, maybe not. Cheers, RickO

  • tokenprotokenpro Posts: 885 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The pig flipper token is a stock design struck by the Meyer & Wenthe die sinking firm of Chicago. It proved to be a popular design and well over 100++ companies and organizations across the U.S. ordered quantities with their own name, address & message on them. There are also plain examples (no wording) struck in silver and Meyer & Wenthe used this design on one of their own store cards. The most prolific issuer was Gus' Good Foods of Chicago -- there seems to be at least one in every random group of tokens that I've bought over the past few decades. Good luck if you decide to collect the design -- there are a lot of them out there.

  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool. SCD and tokens are wonderful 😎




    Tokens have become a regular for me. Here’s my little piggies 😉🦫🙀

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a different one also.

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 22, 2022 3:16PM

    @tokenpro said:
    The pig flipper token is a stock design struck by the Meyer & Wenthe die sinking firm of Chicago. It proved to be a popular design and well over 100++ companies and organizations across the U.S. ordered quantities with their own name, address & message on them. There are also plain examples (no wording) struck in silver and Meyer & Wenthe used this design on one of their own store cards. The most prolific issuer was Gus' Good Foods of Chicago -- there seems to be at least one in every random group of tokens that I've bought over the past few decades. Good luck if you decide to collect the design -- there are a lot of them out there.

    Oh awesome information thanks!
    I'm absolutely loving the details of the pig's face on mine compared to others now that I've seen the ones posted here and a few others I just spotted online.
    Have you ever seen one with the "full butt" like this? lol...I notice none of the others have quite the same or same size design.
    Do you happen to also know the age range for when these were produced?

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,391 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably 1950's and 1960.s Maybe into the 70's.

    From the late 1920's to the late 1940's Meyer & Wenthe's business office was located at 31 North Clark St. in Chicago. Their manufacturing plant was west of The Loop. 31 N. Clark later became Ben's Stamps & Coins, then RARCOA, and since 1988 Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. I worked there from 1989 to 2010.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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