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Help With Early American Token/Button?

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 Posted 01/29/2015  3:42 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Dar to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hey Guys, could really use some help here.

I found this in a 2 for a quarter bucket and found it interesting.

28mm Dia
3mm @ it's edge
9.35g

To me it does not seem to be cast.

Help-With-Early-American-Token/Button?

Help-With-Early-American-Token/Button?

Help-With-Early-American-Token/Button?

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Help-With-Early-American-Token/Button?

Someone turned it into a button but is there more to it then that?

Any Guess to composition? A time period? Anything?

Thanks to all!

Dar

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 Posted 01/29/2015  4:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Altaira to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks to be a similar one to this: 371164021240

My library may have a reference book on US tokens (and going by the year, it may count as being a civil war token) - I'll check it out tonight.
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 Posted 01/29/2015  5:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dar to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you Very Much. I look forward to see what you can find out.

Not too bad for 12.5 cents!

Rest in Peace
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fascinated by the baby birds
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 Posted 01/29/2015  7:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dar to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sweet!

Thank you all VERY MUCH!

Makes my day.
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The image of the "Pelican in Her Piety," reviving her young with blood from her breast, is an ancient one, found depicted in the earliest medieval churches. The image is pre-Christian, but came to symbolize Christ, redeeming the world with his blood.
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I didn't find anything about this token in the library, but it looks like it's solved by now
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Well, I've learned something today. The image here is the seal of the state of Louisiana (though the motto has been inexplicably edited down from the official "Union, Justice, & Confidence"). The state bird of Louisiana is the brown pelican, but the image on the seal is the medieval Christian "pelican in her piety," as reiterated by a 2006 resolution in the state legislature requiring the three red drops of blood to always be featured on the mother pelican's bosom.
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