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My dad brought these in this morning. They were his brothers and he asked me to see if I could find out about them.   |
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Not sure, but they look like something Reader's Digest would have used in a promotion.
You know, "affix the medal you desire to the enclosed form for what length of the subscription you want and mail back to us", that kind of thing.
They definitely don't look like any kind of a government issue, and it's doubtful that they're made of the type of metal they purport to be.
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Yeah, they're definately just steel and I think the gold colored one is brass....... They don't "purport to be" any kind of precious metal by saying "Gold Award", I don't believe. The hole in the upper center of each one makes me wonder if they were attached to a bag or something......  Two say "Gold Award" and one says "Token Bell"......and we just don't know what they were used for or what on Earth they're could possibly be from. His brother had a bunch of these before he died several years back, and now my dad has a handfull of them and just doesn't know anything at all about them or why his brother had them.Edited by eaglefoot
12/22/2009 1:07 pm
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Hey ! ........ Well........ That's something ! ........more than what we knew before....thanks xshift !
There are no dates on either side of these "tokens".
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12/22/2009 3:22 pm
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From what I've been seeing so far, it looks likely that these are slot machine tokens, but I don't know why they are not completely round. Maybe someone who played the one-armed bandits back in the 60's would recognize them  The name "Mills" keeps coming up in reference to these in particular.. however, there was a company by that name that made slot machines, and one that made amusement tokens, so it could mean either. Unfortunately, my main token book is only up to 1900, and the other one is more generalized and doesn't cover slot machines or vending machines, etc. A couple more links: http://www.antiqueslots.biz/catalog/22.htmlThese are a round version: http://cgi.ebay.com/one-arm-armed-b...ne_W0QQitemZ130350533314QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxq20091208?IMSfp=TL 091208181002r32862 |
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These are "generic" tokens; people who wanted to order a batch of tokens but didn't want to pay for specific tokens and dies of their own to be made would purchase these. As such, they would have been used at numerous different venues. Sometimes the club or organization purchasing these generic tokens would counterstamp them after they received them, to mark them as distinctively theirs. Your gold one has been countermarked with the scimitar-and-crescent symbol of the Shriners. It was presumably used at one stage in a Shriner clubhouse. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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How's that for being way off! Sorry, eaglefoot..
The one on the right looks to have a different counter stamp, can you make that one out?
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http://www.libertybellereno.com/mis...dtokens.htmlThese would be slot machine award tokens. Some model machines would pay out a token to be redeemed by the operator of the establishment. The advantage is that the machine could hold 3-5 tokens. If a jackpot should happen to hit before the coins fill up the jackpot window on a normal slot machine, the winner would be short changed. I trust your tokens have #'s on the reverse. Each machine would get a set of tokens with the same serial #'s on them and the operator of the establishment would know if the tokens came out of one of his machines. It would be reasonable to assume that the tokens with the Shriners counterstamp came from a machine placed in a Shriners club. I'm not sure which Model machine these were made for. I don't think Mills (Any Mills Gold Award I've seen were round), Other manufacturers of slots were Watling, Jennings, Pace, Columbia.
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I trust your tokens have #'s on the reverse. They do !Thanks guys ! ...... That information is awesome ! My dad brought in a HUGE batch of these, two big handfulls, this morning too ! He says I can have them...... There are 34 "Gold" ones and 22 "Silver" ones in all. I'm not really sure as to what level of excitement I'm at to have these though, to be honest ! ..... |
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The one on the right looks to have a different counter stamp, can you make that one out? It looks like a shield of some kind, as well as a number (which, as ratman said, would help identify which machine it came from). I'm not familiar with this symbol. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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The one on the right "is" different than the others. There are the "gold" and "silver" colors, but then I have a grouping of them that is kind of a "dull silver" like this one.
This one says "Token Bell".
And this one has a Roman helmut with a feathered mohawk head-dress on it.
Three small letters on the obverse stamped "AWD" and a "13".
On the reverse, it has "H11027" and a large "18".
Then it has a large leafy flower as the design.
All of the "Tokens" have these different stamped letters & numbers......front and back.
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12/23/2009 3:51 pm
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I still don't know what to do with these things. !! |
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I'm a slot machine buff. I might be interested in a few if the price is right. (or maybe a trade)
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We can certainly talk about that Ratman.
Send me an email and we can discuss it.......trade sounds interesting too!
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01/11/2010 08:44 am
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