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Help with identifying a token

I found this in a bag of coins my grandfather gave to me quite a few years ago. I don't have a book on tokens, and I've never been able to identify it.


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~Richard Dorrance

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I don't know, but a friend of mine is from Mason Michigan and I've been there twice myself.
  • I actually had one of those when I was a kid and started collecting. Wasn't yesterday - "Another Brick in the Wall" was No. 1 image

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  • I'd bet is a metal related to a fraternal order, rather than a true token or store card. You could send a picture with return envelope to the guy at Coin World who ID's material and maybe get an answer. Also there's some website for "tokens" that a member here has. Watch sig. lines as I forgot it.
    morgannut2
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    I believe that it's a Masonic lodge token.
    "Have a nice day!"
  • It is what is called a "Mark Penny". It is basicly a membership token for a Masonic Lodge.
  • In Freemasonry, there is a set of steps called "York Rite" - you may have heard of "Scottish Rite" in connection with children's hospitals - the York Rite is similar and does charitable work in the area of blindness research.
    That token is called a "chapter penny" as it relates to a unit of the York Rite.
    There are collectors who specialize in these pennies; if you ask around the Masonic lodges in your area I'm sure they can help you.
    I have two of these -- the one I got when I went through the York Rite and my grandfather's. Needless to say, these are prized possessions.
    Incidentally, some people say that the set of letters in the center of the obverse stands for "Hot Tempered Women Should Strive To Keep Silent"!!
    I wouldn't care to comment on that one way or the other...
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    Incidentally, "R.A.M." on the reverse stands for "Royal Arch Masonry".
    Hope this helps.
    How 'bout them DAWGs!
  • Thanks.
    ~Richard Dorrance

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