Posted 01/05/2023 5:20 pm
That is pretty cool @lc. Here is the tokencatalog link:
http://tokencatalog.com/token_recor...ord_offset=3
And here is the text of a 1964 NYT article describing this "money". Yours looks pretty much MS, but interestingly some may have seen a little bit of circulation.
http://tokencatalog.com/token_recor...ord_offset=3
And here is the text of a 1964 NYT article describing this "money". Yours looks pretty much MS, but interestingly some may have seen a little bit of circulation.
Quote:
NANTUCKET, Mass., Aug. 14—A coin shortage here has resulted in a gift#8208;shop proprietor producing "whale money" coins that can be redeemed for 25 cents or 50 cents.
Irving Stanley, an assistant editor of' The Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, said the shortage of regular coins apparently stemmed from the popularity of coin machines.
Because of the circumstances, Harry A. Howard, who has operated the Port of Call and the Seven Seas gift shops since coming here from New Canaan, Conn., 10 years ago, started having his own coins minted.
He calls them "whale money" because this is an old whaling town and says merchants are accepting them hecause he has promised to redeem them.
NANTUCKET, Mass., Aug. 14—A coin shortage here has resulted in a gift#8208;shop proprietor producing "whale money" coins that can be redeemed for 25 cents or 50 cents.
Irving Stanley, an assistant editor of' The Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, said the shortage of regular coins apparently stemmed from the popularity of coin machines.
Because of the circumstances, Harry A. Howard, who has operated the Port of Call and the Seven Seas gift shops since coming here from New Canaan, Conn., 10 years ago, started having his own coins minted.
He calls them "whale money" because this is an old whaling town and says merchants are accepting them hecause he has promised to redeem them.
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