peanut
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Monday, July 14, 2008 1:27:00 PM
I collect cigar tokens and someone asked to see a few so I'm posting some pics.1570014.jpg
peanut
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:33:00 PM
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mrtelcom
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:34:00 PM
I used to have some hooker tokens.
djk
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:03:00 PM
very cool, thanks for posting!
Grey
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:23:00 PM
Too bad there's not a cbid/CI pin/token.
Charlie
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:25:00 PM
That is pretty neat....

What was the purpose of these tokens?

Charlie

bsevern
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:55:00 PM
Very nice Peanut. Are these metal detector finds ?

Charlie these were advertising tokens. Usually they had a value like 5 or 25 cents, or were good for a free nickel cigar or such. There were all kinds of tokens from the 1800's the the turn of the last century for all kinds of things from saloon drinks, telephone calls, to groceries, even brothels. Some unscrupulous businesses, such as mines partially paid their employees with tokens that could only be spent at the "company" store, with highly inflated prices of course.

A little piece of history.

Charlie
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:11:00 PM
Damn, how do I find some of these things?

Charlie