Token ID help please

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• dsessom Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 3, 2010 10:49PM

  It's an apothecary weight token. Here is some info about them: http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/weights/index.html

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 3, 2010 10:53PM

  It is an apothecary scale weight. In the 19th century apothecaries (pharmacists) mixed their own drugs frpm raw ingredients. They used a fine balance beam with a weight such as this on one pan, and poured or ladled the chemicals into the other pan until they balanced. The ingredient would get dumped into a mortar and pestle grinder, and another chemical weighed. When all of the ingredients were weighed out they would be ground together to mix them, and/or liquified if necessary.
  
  The "H.T." is the token maker, I think it was Henry Troemner. He was in business in Philadelphia.
  
  Unfortunately the weights are relatively common. One like that I would throw in my $5 token junk box.
  
  TD

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• coindeuce Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 3, 2010 10:56PM

  Troemner apothecary weight. Very common.

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