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Valuing Newly-Identified Tokens?

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 Posted 06/03/2018  9:37 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add nautilator to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Does anybody have advice or suggestions on assigning a reasonable value to tokens that are otherwise uncatalogued anywhere?

Background: I bought a group of plastic bar tokens for quite cheap. None of them state their origin place, but knowing that they came from a person in Sheboygan WI and searching, I'm seeing some reasonable attributions.

For example, I've got one that says "Loretta's Village Inn" -- a single google search result from an old newspaper says that such a place once stood a little north of Sheboygan.

Another one, "Robyn's By The Bay" brings up a single result suggesting eastern Wisconsin as well and is likely either Dyckesville or maybe just north, in Duvall. In this case, the token catalog lists a single carwash token from Dyckesville and nothing from Duvall. I'm under the impression that people generally collect by city and this one might be fairly noteworthy.

Any comments/input?
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Plastic bar tokens are generally on the low side of the value. LCS has half an album of them from Michigan. they are either in the bargain bin 50% off marked price to $1.00 when they are in the album they are they can go for up to $2.50. This depends on whether it is still in biz or gone. The subject matter also has some thing to do with it first name bars are popular with people with the same names. Most of the plastic good for drink ones in my collection are from either fraternal group bars. or bars that are in the tourist/hunting areas, and are souvenirs. Just because they aren't attributed doesn't mean the are rare or worth more Car wash tokens tend again to be on the lower side as there aren't as many collectors. and tend to end up in the spare change jar when left over from the car wash trip.
About the only ones that have value are the coal script/company store ones. But it will depend on who and where they are being sold, as I have bought some out of the bargain box for .25˘
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