Token With Tree On It

difficult to visualize, any pic ?

I've seen one similar to this posted here on the forum, I'm sure.

Anything on the other side?

I found the old thread; the token there has a plain crosshatching pattern on the reverse. Unfortunately, the old thread doesn't help us much because we didn't know what it was back then, either.

Both have identical holes in them, so I suspect they were made with the holes. Perhaps it's some kind of workers check or tally, rather than a monetary token.

As the tree and reverse design on these two tokens is relatively ornate, this old exonumist doubts that these items were simply used as checks or tallies. My guess is that they were attached to watch fobs. Note the relatively heavier wear in the centers of these tokens; Such a wear pattern suggests to me that they were grabbed by the thumb and forefinger so as to tug whatever was on the other end. Pocket pieces would likely evidence more even wear, methinks. Also, the tree, reminiscent of the Charter Oak, makes me think that these originated in Massachusetts. Another, to me, less plausible use might have been that of gaming tokens?

Not sure how much this helps - but I found someone else who needing ID for the same token - maybe he found out. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index....rev.html#new

I remember posting in the original post. I could not figure it out?

Hello,

I don't know the token you did show. It might be a plantation token but I don't think it is, because most of the time plantation tokens have more information. For sure it isn't a token from Guantimoc.

For people who are interested I got quite a lot of information about plantation tokens, mostly about tokens from the Netherlands East indies (Sumatra and Java), Borneo and Ceylon but also some from Africa and South and Middle America.

greetings Koenmunten