Unidentified token

[wavysteps2003]

While doing the Lincoln cent survey, this one popped out of a roll.





It has a 19.1mm diameter, wieghs 2.7 grams and it appears to be a copper alloy (brass or bronze?)

Anyone have any ideas as to when, what and why?

Thanks for any information

BJ Neff

[Bob P]

I believe this is a Civil war merchant token circa 1863 or so. There is one on ebay right now, and I have seen many for sale before. Nice find! There should be lots of info available for these tokens on the internet.

http://cgi.cafr.ebay.ca/Civil-War-Merchant-Token-Clip-Error-Union-Flour_W0QQitemZ250174824168QQihZ015QQcategoryZ3456QQcmdZViewItem

[eagames]

Neat!

Seems like NY had more tokens than other areas.
I wonder if it's from the 1860s?

[wavysteps2003]

I just did a bit of reading and it seems that D. L. Wing was involved in a few scandles back in 1887, 1888 and 1889, mostly to do with securities, bonds and stocks.

The things that you find in a penny roll (LOL).

Thanks for the info Bob and Ed.

BJ Neff

[eagames]

Same company and similar:


http://www.rmsc.org/capsule/2000%201%20165.htm

[coppercoins]

Well, that would make this the oldest find to date for sure...the other oldest find in the search so far was a circ 1925S cent. I believe someone else found a 1913 cent.

My oldest find to date - ever - was an 1863 CWT that had capped LIBERTY on the obverse and "ARMY NAVY" on the reverse. A rather common token, but in a roll of cents??

I have also found a grand total of five IHCs in my roll searching over the years, and hundreds upon hundreds of wheats...most interesting (to me) was a 1925S-1MM-001 in VF. Got that in pocket change one day.

[GarryN]

Very cool. D.L. Wing CWT's are relatively common varieties Nice condition too other than the rim hits.