My coin made it in "Numismatist" magazine!

Agflyer

Ok, so it wasn't my exact coin. And, well, it really isn't even a coin. Actually, they (I have two) are so called beer tokens. There is an article about them on page 99 in the "Numimatist". When my great grandmother (big time tea totler) died, we had a chance to go through some of the stuff that she left. Being a fan of round metal objects, I took the two copper beer tokens that she had somehow acquired from Belasco's Stage Door on Hollywood and Vine in CA. They are pretty neat in that on one side of the token there is a small convex nub that allows it to spin like a top. On the other side is an arrow that contains the words, "YOU PAY." Surrounding the arrow are the words, "ROUND & ROUND SHE GOES, WHERE SHE STOPS, NOBODY KNOWS". I was kind of blown away seeing similar tokens in print! I guess it's the little things in life. . .
Rick II

P.S. I have finally purchased a scanner and will be acquiring web space so that I can share my coin photos with you. Until then, you'll just have to put up with my thousand words!

Bulldog

AG,

Congrats......Well not exactly....LOL

Bulldog

michael

wow great i bet that article makes this token even more fasinating!!

i am going to have to go to the liBary ((pun on library after i heard someone say it like that i cant stop saying it like that!!!!))

and read it next week!!

i think that is a great uncommon token also!!!!!!!!!!

sincerely michael

Gemini

I share your enthusiasm Agflier something similar happened to me a few years ago.

I have this old enameled medal from the German cruiser Emden which I knew nothing about.

While browsing through an old issue of Newmismatic Srapbook Magazine May 1969 there it was featured along with some Nazi coins and proceded to give the whole history of the ship along with a photo of the very same medal as mine.

I now keep the information along with the medal as it has given me a new meaning of ownership as what I thought to be a totally unknown and probably long forgotten item.


-Don