What Is This? A Token?

OK this should be fun!! Let me put my "Sherlock Holmes" cap on and we will deduct!

The word "KISMET" in Turkish means: "n. destiny, foreordination, lot, fate, chance, fortune, kismet, fatality, inning, innings, portion, predestination, shot".

So it is called "Club Destiny", the place YOU sould be!

Trabzon is a town,(and a gathering or rivers), in Northern Turkey on the Black Sea, a shipping town that was founded by the Greeks in 756, but mostly used by the Ottomans in the 1100 to 1400 range as it was on the famous "Silk Road". This port became a focal point of trade to Iran, India and the Caucasus.

"1009 E. Baltimore St. Baltimore Md." If looked up on Google maps is just a few blocks from Baltimore's famous "Harbour" and I am sure was a big trade/business center in the early 1900's.

So one could deduct that this token was intended to be used at the Club Kismet only, as for the "Use in U.S. Forbidden", that it was worth 5c and this was some form of Tradeing Co. between Turkey and the U.S. or some form of Turkish Bar.

But you know hey .....that's just a guess!

"Elementary" my dear jakeW!

Many years ago when my father passed away we found several of these style tokens in his sock draw. Mostly "Busty Betties" and flipper "Heads You Win", "Tails you lose" coins. It was fun to try and figure where you got someof them!

OK, It seems that Decoursey, Ky. is in Kenton County, just South of the Cincinnati metro area. The community was named for William DeCoursey, settler. It is also off Hwy 75, but it is several miles off of Hwy 75 so I would say that "Oliver's Cafe" was no truck stop.
"DeCoursey" is not a town, it is more of an area. The most important thing there is the "DeCoursey Interlocker". This was a large train yard ,switching station, and crew transfer center on the former Louisville and Nashville RR mainline from Cincinnati to Corbin, Kentucky. It was constructed in the late 1850's by the Kentucky Central Railroad. Playing a significant role in supplying and moving troops during the Civil War, it later became an important coal route for the L&N.

So, It seems to me that "Oliver's Cafe" is a track side dinner/bar that caterers to the track workers that gather there to change shifts at the DeCoursey Yard. Being that the standard price of a cup of coffee w/sugar and cream was 5c during the Great Depression, AND that many Dinners would offer a 5c token then, if you got a meal, this Diner/bar was open during the 1930's also the height of the Coal years for the L&NRR. I would say that this Diner/Bar did a very good business because only a few places could order special tokens, many just c/s'ed other coins.
As for the "indented" areas, I don't know, maybe the supplier also gave some special machine that kicked these coins out, but they did not want you to put your own quarters or large cents in there?

How about a picture of this token biggfredd?

Wow...we should put on a show with Viking as the main attraction...

By indented, I mean the bead design, not the token. The design comes in, not the planchet.

Not sure about an "unknown/unlisted" coin there biggfredd. The only token site I know of is this one:
http://tokencatalog.com/index.php

If you look under "Ky" then search for "decoursey", three tokens come up but none for "Oliver's Cafe". So you may have something special there! You could always contact this site and send them pictures of what you found.