HELP....identify this token!

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TavernTreasures
TavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭
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I have no idea what this is. It is about the size of a US cent, but thinner. I think it is brass. It could be foreign, my father may have brought it home from his travels in WWII. Can anyone ID it?

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  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My gut feeling is central Europe circa WW One.
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 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. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • MadMarty
    MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
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    Duh!!! It's an F5 token, anyone can see that!!! image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • cladking
    cladking Posts: 30,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Alpert lists an "F/5" as San Francisco California in the 1984 edition but it's not listed under the city.

    Perhaps a later edition corrects this error.

    If it is an amusement token it would be an old one.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • RichieURich
    RichieURich Posts: 8,640 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>Duh!!! It's an F5 token, anyone can see that!!! image >>



    According to my computer, F5 = Refresh. So I guess it is a Refresh token. imageimageimage

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  • TavernTreasures
    TavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭
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    Thanks for the responses. I have always wondered what it was used for.
    Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!

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