found "Ford" token/any ideas?

[bergie]

found "Ford" token/any ideas?

Sorry I don't have a digital camera to show it, but today I found a "token" that registered as silver, though has some oxidation damage that leads me to believe it's not pure or perhaps not silver at all. It's about the size of a silver dollar and one side says "Onward with Ford in 1937" around the edge and "1,000,000" (could it be cars sold?) and "by September" and some other writing that's hard to read. On the other side it says "V8" with the V and 8 over each other. To the left it has "60" and the right it has "85". I did a little research online today and found reference to "Onward with Ford" as the name of a 1937 manual, so perhaps it was a slogan of the company at that time. Turns out the adjacent property owner was a longtime Ford dealership owner...

 

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[Richard]

Re: found "Ford" token/any ideas?

I don't think I can shed any light on your token but the V over 8 was an early Ford badge maybe in the early thirties. The 60 is a reference to the V8 60 an early Ford V-8. And along this same line the 85 maybe a reference to the 85 H.P that it produced. Doesn't tell much about the token but there you go....

Richard

 

[Doug Mauck]

Re: found "Ford" token/any ideas?

I did a search on 'Ford Tokens' and found a similar 1933 token at: http://www.wscoin.com/ItemList.cfm?ID=1986
It appears that they want $50 for theirs! Excellent find! Ford also did a 50 year token, apparently in 1950.

 

[bergie]

Re: found "Ford" token/any ideas?

Thank you both for the feedback. A little more cleaning revealed the back says "1,300,000 in 1937
1,000,000 1937 V8 sales by September"

I appreciate the help and learned a little more about cars from your posts.

 

[abird]

Re: found "Ford" token/any ideas?

i found one of those also its bronze, and i remember reading they gave them away at the worlds fair

 

[Gold Digg3r]

Re: found "Ford" token/any ideas?

Yes, I found one of those too but i think it was a commemoritive cause it had all the fords silowettes on it and their names somthing like 1950 on it too, this might be kind of an old post but i hope u receive it. gl HH!
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