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a tiny token

demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
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found my smallest token ever today. its good for $1 in trade, the dime is for scale. the bottle was used for opium.
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  • ManMan Posts: 1,002
    Nice token, I wonder was it used to buy opium image.
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  • HKnJHKnJ Posts: 415
    That is neat!

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,306 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's odd. Usually tokens with a high face value like that were big! I have one $1.00 token, and it's dollar sized and aluminum (which was considered a "good" metal in the old days, before it was so cheap and easy to make).

    I wonder if that was supposed to mimic a gold dollar? Presumably it's brass, so it would've been gold-colored when new. I don't mean it was made to resemble a gold dollar, but that might be the reason they chose that size? Of course, a gold dollar would've been a little smaller than that, even.

    That's a great find, I would say. What's the other side say? Is it the same on both sides?

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  • RiccarRiccar Posts: 789
    Cool token.

    Any clue on:
    What the token was for?
    Age?
  • SilverDreamsSilverDreams Posts: 427 ✭✭
    Neat find. image
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  • demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
    the other side just has numbers on it. found many like it last year. ya i thought it was odd too for it to be worth a dollar. i have dug several other 1 dollar tokens and all were quarter size or larger.

    the age would be no older than 1906 image
  • IndianHeadManIndianHeadMan Posts: 826 ✭
    Tokens are my specialty. That is cool.
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