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Need Help With An Abraham Lincoln Token

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any help would be appreciated. thanks

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It could be a token, that were part of a presidential set given away at service stations.
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anymore info would be greatly appreciated!
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I have had one of these for a few years and still don't know anything about it. If you find out anything about it, can you please post it here or email me? Thank you.
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can you tell us what it says? The pictures are to small for me to read it and that may help with trying to identify what it is and maybe where it came from. I think I can read the Obverse but can't quite make out the Reverse because its a little blurry when trying to read it
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It looks to be a bronze shell oil presidential token.

Cladking posted this on these tokens in 2010;


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They passed out an aluminum token with each $2 purchase or more of gasoline. Most were a little free with the tokens so it wasn't hard to get extra. Many customers threw them away or they littered peeoples cars. They were everywhere.

The quality of them is exceedingly good and they were weell made. Only about twelve were extremely conmmon and another eight were found without much effort. Most of the rest were scarce or extremely rare then and are wholly unavailable today. There were a couple of "instant winners" which could be mailed in for a free complete set in bronze and these sets are not hard to find today. Many were broken up and the singles are common in token junk boxes.

There were three distinct runs of most these so a complete set probably conmprises around 100 pieces. Thetre were cards that were issued to hold the sets and widely available but these aren't seen in pristuine condition very often. Even beat up and used ones aren't common.

The attrition onthe aluminum tokens is probably around 99.96% but still most are common relative the demand or are simply unavailable at all. I've got about 50 different but might never add another to my set. The bronze attrition rate is probably only about 50%.

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