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Token: Pioneer Cigar Store, Oxnard CAL

CROCKofCOINSCROCKofCOINS Posts: 1,545 ✭
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I got a token:

Pioneer Cigar Store
C.Van Deventer Oxnard Cal

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Other side: ???
I think: 25 Cent
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Any book on this token?

Jerry
CROCK of COINS
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Comments

  • marymmarym Posts: 713 ✭
    Jerry, I tried to do some reseach on this token but all I could up with in this town was a token for Arch Cigar Store. It sure is a neat find!
    Be Still and Know
  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I looked through Rulau's US Tokens 1700-1900 book, and didn't see it anywhere. I could have missed it, or it could be newer than 1900, but even Google didn't find anything on it.

    Nice find none the less.
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    Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
  • CROCKofCOINSCROCKofCOINS Posts: 1,545 ✭
    Thanks for looking.
    One of the guys on the Calif. forum found this:

    >>Found the token, It's listed on the second eddition of the Kappen token book.

    At time of print, Only two had been reported.

    PIONEER / CIGAR / STORE / C. VAN DEVENTER OXNARD, CAL. // GOOD FOR / 25 / IN TRADE

    Brass and 25mm in size.<<

    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • BentForkBentFork Posts: 829
    Cool Jerry.
    G.
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  • SilverDreamsSilverDreams Posts: 427 ✭✭
    Very cool!
    I lust for silver.
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  • HKnJHKnJ Posts: 415
    Sweet token...Tokens are fun to find. I found only a few so far.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of those are worth $$$.

    Yours has some quality issues, of course, but at least it is pretty obviously not a fantasy strike. Very cool.

    Maybe some researching will enable you to date it and bring up more info about the merchant.

    It needs a cleaning, but I would be very scared to do that, 'cause it looks ready to fracture into pieces.

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  • DUBBADUBBA Posts: 935
    diggin history!....cool find!....hh
    "see ya at the beach"
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