Hello everyone, it has been a few weeks. Hope the forums didn't miss me too much!
Anyways Brennan Home Hard Ware
http://www.homehardware.ca/en/index...UaAqej8P8HAQwas selling the new Woodstock trade token today. $1 sponsored by Woodstock Chambers of Commerce. The had 10,000 of them and were selling them at 80 cents a piece.
I did not hear anything about them but my aunt, a secretary at a local law firm, was told about them by her boss. Now my loving aunt knows I collect municipal trade tokens (how can she not, us coin guys love to drone on about or hobby) and sent my other aunt out to get $25 worth for me!
As she is telling me this my heart is racing! I can't wait to see them. I was just thinking about Woodstock trade tokens today. Today (all though post poned by rain) is the annual Lighting of the Christmas tree event in Woodstock and the 1992 trade token featured said image. I was nicely admiring my tokens unaware they are about to receive a new friend.
So any ways my aunt tells me by the time Aunt #2 gets there all of them are sold out. 10,000 gone? I could feel the weight of all my organs dropping on to my bowel. You would think it silly for a grown man to feel dread over not getting a new toy but us numismatics and anglers have one thing in common, the story of the one that got away.
I am sure one will show up. I know of a second hand store on the out skirts of town who (I imagine) bought them all up and wants an arm and a leg for them. I will just have to wait a few months, maybe a year, but one will come up at a reasonable price.
To quote the late great Billy Mays, "but wait...there's more!", my aunt had to go out to Home Hard Wear to pick up a Christmas package. She gets there and asks the cashiers if they happen to have any in the register. She checks and sure enough she has two $10 bills from Down Town Woodstock. She calls me and tells me the news.
Wait, what? This isn't a token but an example of scrip! Outside of all the Canadian Tire money I am saving to buy a sweet BB gun I do not have an example of script in my collection. She brings them home and I am waiting at the door with 20 loonies to give her. As I look these over I see the Connell House (you stamp guys enjoy that!), a new local art gallery that the was erected on the grounds of the old Pizza Delight for tourist season and the old train bridge.
How could this get any better (besides my aunt putting them in her wallet instead of putting them in currency sleeves and than a safe box)? Well I turn them over and they are consecutive! 0433 and 0434!
December is our coin club's fancy Christmas dinner and we will be starting up again in January. I can not wait as one of the biggest guys in the Canadian Scrip and token scene, Tim Henderson, goes to the same club. I am sure he has a couple of them himself but maybe he could shed some more light on these for me. I am not just a collector after all but a learner, a numismatist.
I figured I would share the story here because I don't have any coin friends around to regal with the hunt. Thank you all for reading. I will see if my aunt can take on to the Law firm and scan it for a picture upload.
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Posted 11/21/2015 10:17 am
