Token help pics inside

woodardcoin

I have run across a few tokens and need any info or value on these.

The first one came from a friend of mine who said his grandfather gave him these . he believes they came from the Pimento pepper co. in Pimento Ga. Any thoughts ?






The second one is for 25c off a bottle of Hadacol (cold med I guess ) from 1958 . Any ideas value ? rare?





Thanks
JP

DorkGirl

I can't help, but I can bump the thread.

lordmarcovan

Hadacol

As to the Pimiento Shop token, I like it. It's cool. Dunno anything about it, though.

There was/is a "Pimento" in GA? Cool. I came up dry on a Google search, but only scanned the first few hits.

Note the spelling, though- the token has the Spanish spelling: Pimiento, which basically is a generic term in Spanish for any kind of pepper, unless I'm mistaken. In common American usage today, I think it just refers to red bell peppers, like the kind you see sliced up and stuck inside olives. (Or in "pimento cheese").

Both cool pieces, there. Exonumia is pretty fascinating. I think it might be one of the final frontiers, too- there is so much cool undiscovered stuff in old exonumia.

woodardcoin

LordM comes through again . LOL Thanks for the info LordM I am going to try to get the friend that gave me the pimiento token for any more info he may have I think he said his grandfather started and closed the company from the 40s-50s I THINK. I will try to catch up with him and see . He gave my a few of these and said he played with them as a boy and when his grandfather passed away they found a bag of them in his house .

He is not a collector but has some very very nice Ga confederate notes framed that he came across in his early teens . He walked to a lady's house to change a tire for her and she opened a trunk full of them and told him to take his pick . Unlike he he stopped at about 10 notes . I would love to find that trunk now .

lordmarcovan

Hey, if you score some more of those Pimiento tokens, I might be interested in a couple!

Particularly if you can run down any more of the story about them.