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I'm Not Sure What I'm Looking At Here... Peeling Check?

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 Posted 03/22/2012  7:13 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add pennrj430 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi, I was looking through a box of cents from the bank, and I found a coin that I can't identify. I tried taking pictures, but it's in such poor condition that you can't see anything from the picture. It is about the size of a penny but is silver in color. The obverse of the coin has the initials "R.L.S." with what looks like a 4 leaf clover above and below the initials, and the reverse says "Peeling Check" with " -0- " above and below.
Does anyone know what this is?

Thank you for your help.
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you tried taking pictures, but it's in such poor condition that you can't see anything from the picture;
do you have a printer that will scan/copy?
you can scan coin into a pic...it works better than some cameras!
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 Posted 03/22/2012  10:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
A "peeling check" is a type of token, used in food canneries and such places. If you google the exact phrase, you'll find plenty of similar items for sale and being discussed.

I don't know how the token system worked; I assume it's for workers who were doing piecework, peeling and processing fruit and/or vegetables. The more boxes (?) you processed, the more tokens you received, and the more you would be paid. Or it could have been used as a means of keeping track of who had which piece of equipment.
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Thanks for your help Sap. I actually googled it before posting, and just now, and aside from a short comment about one on a metal detecting forum, I couldn't find any information on it. Do you know if their is a way to find out the age (or decade), or country it's from?
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