TRADE TOKEN ID

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LOCK34
LOCK34 Posts: 135 ✭✭✭
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Would anyone have any information on this trade token? Thank you!

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  • JBK
    JBK Posts: 17,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am guessing, based on lack of an issuer, that it is just a generic token that was offered by a token maker. I guess you probably already know that. Maybe someone will know more about who made it.

    From the type styles I would expect it to be late 19th or early 20th century.

  • tokenpro
    tokenpro Posts: 940 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's simply a stock token that would have been used by merchants that did not want to have their own tokens struck. It is closest to Alpert & Smith Dime Size Trade Stim. CMT but is an unlisted variety. Most of these were used in counter top trade stimulators.

  • LOCK34
    LOCK34 Posts: 135 ✭✭✭
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    Thank you!

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's good to see that

  • 291fifth
    291fifth Posts: 25,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    There were many different types of "stock" trade tokens in use during the early 20th century. Back when I had some of them there was virtually no market for them. I eventually just tossed them into a group lot with elongateds and wooden nickels and offered them on eBay. The lot brought next to nothing. Token collectors want named businesses, preferably with town names as well.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • tokenpro
    tokenpro Posts: 940 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Although there are a number of active collectors of older amusement tokens (many of which were used in early slot machines & other stimulators), there still is no market for 99% of the known stock tokens They often end up in poundage lots.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @LOCK34.... That one looks as if it was dug out of the ground... Was it a metal detector find? Cheers, RickO

  • DNADave
    DNADave Posts: 7,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    These would make good page of 20 for my album. 20 of best, unusual, denominations, sizes, shapes, of stock tokens.

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