1908 Brooklyn Post Exchange Token

Steve27

Does anyone know of a book/catalog/other source of info on these?

Glen2022

There is a military token thread. You might find info there or post the photos there.

Manifest_Destiny

Interesting that it looks like love token interlocking script.

PerryHall

@Manifest_Destiny said:
Interesting that it looks like love token interlocking script.

Looks like USMC.

DCW

Paul Cunningham wrote a great 2 vol set on military tokens about 30 years ago. "Miltary Tokens of the United States." This was an expansion on the work of James Curto.
Your token, as you noted, is from the Marine Barracks in Brooklyn. The intertwined letters read: USMC.
It is listed as CUNN NY50c with a price estimate of $100 in 1995.
This is a link to the military tokens thread here:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/978930/military-tokens-thread/p4#latest

And on MyCollect:
https://www.mycollect.com/groups/DCW

lilolme

The Resources thread that is pinned to the top of the US forum has a link to the tokencatalog.com under the catagory:
Tokens - CWT, HTT, General
http://tokencatalog.com/index.php

From the home page I went to New York first.
Then I went to Brooklyn under the cities at the top. Did not find it. Then noticed a couple of other Brooklyn and one was Brooklyn Barracks (3). So only three tokens. But it appears it was one of them.

Brooklyn Barracks page:
http://tokencatalog.com/display_records.php?view=All+Listings&ta_country=U.S.A.&td_state=New+York&td_city=Brooklyn+Barracks&collection=-1&SearchString=&AlsoSeeOption=&DisplayIndexingOption=&SearchStringEveryWord=&SearchStringAnyWord=&ImagedOnlyOption=&action=DisplayRecords

What appears to be the OP token and has the NY50c the DCW noted page:
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=331718&inventory_id=304122&td_image_id=160567&attribution_id=338651&record_offset=2

You can hold the mouse over the B R 29 and it will say Brass Round and size in millimeters (mm). Some have a value below but not this one. It has a TC number.

johnny9434

thats a nice token, im glad you posted that here

ricko

@PerryHall.... Thanks for decoding the script....I looked at it for a few minutes and could not see it.... Cheers, RickO

CaptHenway

Remember that there was a very important Navy Yard in Brooklyn from 1801 to 1966. The Marine contingent probably provided security for the base, as well as providing shore facilities for Marines serving on ships operating out of Brooklyn.

Steve27

@DCW said:
Paul Cunningham wrote a great 2 vol set on military tokens about 30 years ago. "Miltary Tokens of the United States." This was an expansion on the work of James Curto.
Your token, as you noted, is from the Marine Barracks in Brooklyn. The intertwined letters read: USMC.
It is listed as CUNN NY50c with a price estimate of $100 in 1995.
This is a link to the military tokens thread here:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/978930/military-tokens-thread/p4#latest

And on MyCollect:
https://www.mycollect.com/groups/DCW

Thanks DCW, this is exactly the info I was looking for.