3 cent token from Virginia

[Ifyndit]

Does anyone have any information about this aluminum 3 cent token from Virginia? It is about the size of a penny.

 

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[Mackaydon]

Boone Mill Supply Co., Inc. (Boone Mill, Virginia) is noted below as being chartered on April 16, 1918.
http://books.google.com/books?id=yp...ne+Mill+Supply+Co."&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

The post office and community name was changed to "Boone Mill" in 1892 and to "Boones Mill" in the 1950's.

 

[intimer]

that's a new one on me. coooool!

 

[idahotokens]

There is a Virginia trade token book by David Schenkman, but I don't have a copy to see what it says (if anything) about this one. The book is tough to get.
John in ID

 

[elliewoo]

I have a copy of the Virginia token book and this token is listed. It says that this was a general store during the early 1900s. In the 1930s they were canners of tomatoes and green beans. The tokens were probably used during this period. It has a catalog value of $3-5 but the book was published in 1980 so I'm sure it is worth more today.

 

[Mackaydon]

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