Old Tex-a-Toy coin

[Dirtfishin 208]

Found today in my yard. With all the kid stuff I've been finding I'm guessing a little boy lived here in the mid to late 50's. Pretty cool find.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Cool find!

 

[SusanMN]

Never heard of Tex-a-Toy. Had to look them up. Here is what I found in an old Tnet post

In the 1950s, Jack, his brother, Herbert Richards, Wallace Rusch and Rudy Nails started a company called Texatoy to make play money, hobby horses, sheriff's badges and spinning ropes. The play money included a copper penny. They were careful not to make the penny the same size as a real penny, in compliance with the law, but unbeknownst to them, the play copper penny was the same size as the New York City subway tokens. "One day, two of the biggest guys I ever saw came in with guns and badges, from the Treasury Department, and confiscated all the copper for making the coins, and all the coins we had," Jack said. The company was paying women to package the money in their homes, and all of those packages had to be unpacked, as well. "It was scary," Jack said. "We thought, 'Oh, we're in big trouble."

 

[Dirtfishin 208]

Way cool. Thanks for the info!. Ch

 

[creskol]

I always liked finding play money! For as many as kids must have lost, very few turn up.

 

[Whyme]

Nice find!

 

[SusanMN]

Would be very cool to find one of those copper pennies.

 

[islamoradamark]

I really like finding small toys congrats

 

[A2coins]

Nice relic