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New Purchase - Interesting Token - One Way transfer to the cemetary

Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 7,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 29, 2023 9:21AM in U.S. Coin Forum

I guess if this Cemetary is your final destination there’s no need for a return trip 🤔

Mr_Spud

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 25,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "175 Years of Excellence."
    https://www.cavehillcemetery.com

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do you need to put one on each eye or does one token cover the fare?

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  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I want a round trip or I am not going.

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  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,780 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is morbid but UBER cool!!

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well now... Those are the first Cemetery Ride tokens I have ever seen. Keeps parking needs down to a minimum... ;) I am sure they were not used for the honoree :D Cheers, RickO

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,680 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have not seen a cemetery ride token either, but they may not necessarily have been used only at burials. Say you wanted to visit a loved one’s grave but did not or could not walk to it. For a small fee the cemetery would take you there.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,680 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My first wife’s maternal grandparents are buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery south of Chicago on the old Grand Trunk Railroad which had a stop there listed on railroad maps. They are a good half mile from where the station must have been.

    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • tokenprotokenpro Posts: 929 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Per Atwood-Coffee Volume II: "Rosehill Cemetery operated carriages within the cemetery, using horse-drawn service from 1862 to 1912 and gasoline buses from 1912 to 1942."

    I'm sure the Cave Hill piece from Louisville was used in a similar manner.

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