CoinTalk Members Share Tokens and Medals in a "Token Tuesday" Forum Thread

This article is based only on posts in the CoinTalk forum thread "It's "Token Tuesday Ya'll!" Post Those Cool Tokens Please.....". The source does not give the date of the thread. What follows are the posters' own descriptions and opinions; the items' authenticity, condition and value have not been checked. The source text does not include the photos.

How the thread started

SensibleSal66 started the thread with "It's called 'Token Tuesday Ya'll!'" and asked other members to post their tokens, adding that some were normal and some not so much. SensibleSal66 pointed to the "square hole" on a Canadian token and asked how it was made.

Items posted by lordmarcovan

lordmarcovan listed these items:

- Germany (Nürnberg): a 1730 silver Augsburg Confession medal by Daniel Dockler the Younger - Great Britain (Chichester, Sussex): a 1794 copper Conder token, "Chichester Halfpenny" - France: an 1840 gilt bronze specimen medal by Antoine Bovy, for Napoleon Bonaparte's Paris funeral - France (Compagnie La Prévoyance): an 1869 silver jeton engraved by Paulin Tasset - New Zealand (Christchurch): an 1881 bronze merchant token, Milner & Thompson's Music Depot - Germany (Wurttemburg): a silver klippe of about 1904, Stuttgart Numismatic Association, "Happy New Year" - Germany (Westphalia): a 1923 gilt tombac hyperinflationary 10,000-mark notgeld token - Germany (Weimar Republic): a 1932 specimen gold medal memorializing the shipwreck of the schooner Niobe

lordmarcovan also listed United States items:

- New York: an 1837 nickel silver private pattern cent, Feuchtwanger's Composition - An 1838 copper Hard Times token, anti-slavery "Am I Not A Woman" type - Nashville, Tennessee: a brass merchant token of about 1852-1853, Francisco & Whitman, Hatters - An 1863 bronze patriotic Civil War token, "Our Little Monitor" type - Champion Paper Co.: a 1942 silver World War II deployment medal presented to Logan Robertson

In a reply quoting an earlier post, SensibleSal66 wrote, "I like that French coin," adding that it shared the same birth date as SensibleSal66's son, except for the year. In a reply quoting an earlier post, lordmarcovan wrote, "Glad you sold me back the Niobe medal, though."

Cranberry tokens and picker tokens

Mr. Numismatist wrote in detail about cranberry tokens and picker tokens.

According to Mr. Numismatist, there are many cranberry tokens from Grayland, Washington, and most share a common reverse, with two reverse varieties that look very similar. Otto Maki's token is one of the harder ones to find. The poster wrote that it is not known whether the Five Crate token was actually used, as all known examples show little to no signs of circulation, and that a Ten Crate token has a similar story. W.W. Locke's Four Quart, Six Quart and One Crate tokens were definitely used and are hard to find in high grades, according to the post.

Mr. Numismatist also showed an iron picker token, about 35 mm in diameter but very thin, and wrote that Daniel Stoll farmed on Ordnance Road near Glen Burnie, Maryland.

The poster described E.C. Lee as probably the largest strawberry grower in Alabama ever. Lee first grew many types of produce and cotton but later grew strawberries almost exclusively, according to the post. Four locations where E.C. Lee Farm Co. used metal picker tokens are known, Farms No. 1, 2, 3 and 8, but the poster wrote of being unable to find their exact locations and asked for information. The headquarters was in Evergreen, Alabama, and Lee also owned farms in surrounding towns, according to the post.

Other posts

- Chris B posted "a few of my favorites," and fretboard posted "a mix of mine" - dwhiz posted with the note "Just Back from ICG" - Collecting Nut wrote of having over 400 tokens and deciding to sell some in Collecting Nut's own antique shop. Collecting Nut also showed a Gold Driving Range Token, the same on both sides, which the poster called unique because it is 8-sided

Source: CoinTalk, "It's "Token Tuesday Ya'll!" Post Those Cool Tokens Please....." (forum thread).