Anyone know what this is ? thanks

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CaptHenway

A 19th game counter (similar in use to a poker chip) made to look something like a gold dollar without being deceptive enough to be considered a counterfeit. Many game counters were made to look something like coins.
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PrivateCoinCollector

This thread is done!

SUMORADA

Thank you, its on the bay....160171091743

PerryHall

<< <i>A 19th game counter (similar in use to a poker chip) made to look something like a gold dollar without being deceptive enough to be considered a counterfeit. Many game counters were made to look something like coins.
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Any possibilty it's play money?

CaptHenway

I don't think that they made "play money" for kids back then, but I guess it's always possible. It is also possible that some of the pieces considered game counters were used as practice money in some of the business colleges from the 19th Century, many of which issued their own paper currency practice money, but unless you found one inside an old envelope identified as such you could never prove it.
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cmerlo1

Here's one I picked up at a show here a while back...it set me back all of $3.50!

DWT

Yes it's a gaming counter. Rulau & Fuld One-10a.
Oddly enough it's also included as a period 3 piece, and I don't believe it should be, in the 2nd edition of California Pioneer Fractional Gold as BG-1328. They're not gold, and although listed as R5/R6 in the BG book I'd believe they're more common than that. Every one I've seen has had similar rim problems...another example pictured below. Also pictured is a very similar one, but unlisted in the BG book.