Unknown Origin Token, Any Ideas?

A Tavern token, probably good for a mug of beer. I'll look a little further for where it is from. If I find anything, I'll update.

Edit: Nothing found on Numista or Tokenscatalog.

That would be because it's a cent sign, not a dollar sign. Cent symbol comes after the value, dollar symbol comes before.

Tokens such as this were often used in "trade stimulators" - a euphemism for early forms of poker machine. Giving away money in these machines was illegal at the time, but people were allowed to gamble for tokens - and you could then take your tokens and exchange them for goods in the shop. Or in this case, in the bar.

The legality of such tokens was also questionable in some jurisdictions - which means that information about the token issuers is often hard to come by.

I recently picked up a token for a bar in NE Minneapolis, and when looking up the catalog number, I noticed there was a little history behind that bar. In 1956, The owner of that bar and 38 other bar owners were indicted by jury on gambling charges. They apparently didn't pay the gambling tax for the pinball machines in their bars.