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Token with a Cannon on one side and the Number 5 with Rays on the other
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Neat looking token design - New or Old?
2.4 grams - 17.6MM - Medal turn alignment - Non magnetic
Thank you!
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Fascinating. No idea what it is.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Puerto-Rico-1895-5-Centavo-Cannon-Hardware-Store-Merchant-Token-Anacs-MS-63/192548250878?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=20160908105057&meid=020e3d137ee0473c88d21857f111df1f&pid=100675&rk=1&rkt=15&mehot=none&sd=192548250878&itm=192548250878&pmt=1&noa=1&pg=2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci:e5ae58a3-6c85-11ea-a098-74dbd180a7ea|parentrq:04319dee1710a4e86c8480e1ffd1e393|iid:1
That’s it @GoldenEgg i was searching eBay to find that one. I was bidding on one that wasn’t graded but it went way over what it was worth. It might be the same one and they had it graded, not sure.
It has a super cool look.
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That's amazing, I would have never guessed!
Thank you!
I’ve seen it probably 80 times...every time it’s relisted lol
Reposted because it's overvalued? Inquiring minds want to know. Peace Roy
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Give that man a cheroot!
A group of those tokens came on the market some time in the early 1980's (IIRC), probably a small to medium sized hoard of remainders as they were all sharp bu. I have no idea of the quantity but during the 80's there seemed to be one in every Presidential, TMC-Pipher, Rockaway, Cunningham, Hartzog, Kirtley and other exonumia auction going. The group was absorbed over time as they are both a Puerto Rican and a great looking token. Finding one in vf would probably be much more difficult.
Nice looking token.... looks like brass, but photo could be deceptive. I lived/worked in Puerto Rico for over two years, never saw one of these when I was there...I lived in Mayaguez and worked in San German... not far from Adjuntas... even passed through there in my wanderings. Cheers, RickO
I recall reading somewhere that the token is Cuban and not Puerto Rican.
Well, Fumero & Fumero list it as F-1 in their "Merchant Tokens Of Puerto Rico) as have previous catalogers such as Archilla-Diaz & others. Background on the issue authored by the late Edward Roehrs can be found in a 1966 TAMS Journal article which basically states that the tokens were found in Adjuntas and locals ascribed them to Ferreteria El Canon as mentioned earlier in this thread. Ed Roehrs was a studied and meticulous collector of Puerto Rico tokens but he could not put the tokens in the store, just down the street so a Cuban location is possible but IMHO not very likely.
They are listed as nickel but are actually copper nickel (not magnetic) and are typical in fabric and well executed style to many of the Central American and Caribbean tokens struck by Scoville in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
@tokenpro....Thanks for the information....Cheers, RickO