Can anyone give me more information on this Exonumia?

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braddick
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  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No idea.
    What did skate keys look like? I could never skate.

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  • Steven59
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    edited November 14, 2021 6:57PM
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    @CaptHenway said:
    No idea.
    What did skate keys look like? I could never skate.

    When I was a little kid my sister was pretty good at roller skating and her skate keys looked like actual clock keys - never a round coin facsimile.

    EDIT: Picture of older skate keys..............

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  • MWallace
    MWallace Posts: 4,682 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not much help but there is a franchise called United Skates Of America Roller Rinks.

  • LanceNewmanOCC
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    @Steven59 said:

    pretty much what i remember our looking like. not too dissimilar from vending machine keys, imo.

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  • Steven59
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    @LanceNewmanOCC said

    [pretty much what i remember our looking like. not too dissimilar from vending machine keys, imo.]

    I'm thinking back then all the keys worked on everything similar as nobody even thought of crime from people they knew would steal from them. Just like the codes for the electronic garage openers back then, there was only like 5 different and as kids we'd ride our bikes around the neighborhood opening up all the neighbors garage doors - :D

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  • ricko
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    I had skate keys as a kid... We did a lot of skating then... Just like the ones posted above. No idea what that is in the OP though...Cheers, RickO

  • Jzyskowski1
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    Perhaps the OP has posted a work in progress and just never finished

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  • 291fifth
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    It may have been struck from a deliberately mutilated token die. Perhaps the maker/company that intended to use them feared prosecution for counterfeiting. At a later date some struck some examples from the cancelled/mutilated dies for who knows what reason and this example found its way into actual circulation.

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  • jesbroken
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    Is it perhaps just a strike thru?
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  • CaptHenway
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    Yeah, probably said ONE PAIR as in rental or something like that on the back and it looked too much like a coin so they routed a deep bar across the reverse die to obliterate the "denomination." The obverse may have had a full Mercury dime head on it and the Feds took offense so they ground virtually everything off of it.

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  • DNADave
    DNADave Posts: 7,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 15, 2021 4:11PM
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    @braddick said:

    I have this in my collection of ephemera. Instead of’United’ mine say ‘Unique’ skates of America. Not sure if related or not but almost has to be.


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