July 4 1855 New York Passage Of The Prohibition Token

Please forgive me as I am not a collector by any means at all. My grandfather passed and in his will I was left some rather cool and odd things. One of which is this coin, token, whatever this is. I did a search and found your forums. I seen another user has one of these as well so I thought I would ask a few questions. One was this actually made in 1855 or was is made later as a commemorative piece? Second is there any value to is as this is the only thing like this in all of the old coins that I have here. The cool old coins are all US pieces and I can easily look them up but this thing is just odd :) Any info on this piece would be very much appreciated.
Thank you





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