5 Cent Trade Token and a Cooper Lucky Pocket Piece

[RedCardHack]

My brother and I found these today near Cincinnati. Any help on the trade token would be great.

 

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[idahotokens]

Red--we'll need to know what the obverse of the trade tokens says. All I can make out is a single line ending with SON.
John in the Great 208

 

[Nooberz]

Cool looking tokens!

 

[RedCardHack]

Figured out the token after some gentle cleaning it is from R. Dickason, They were a bakery in Chillicothe, Ohio 1909-1914. Thanks for the response.

 

[idahotokens]

Red--Okay, now we're talking. Chillicothe, OH. Bakery & Restaurant 1909-1914 per Lipscomb's OH Book, and is known in 22mm and 25mm varieties. tokencatalog.com adds that his name was Riley Dickason. I think that might be an error (and I will correct that ) because the 1897 through 1912 Chillicothe City Directories show Ripley Dickason - Bakery - 19 East Main. There is also a variety which has been counterstamped with the name, "Bishop", which is likely Dickason's successor in the business.
John in the Great 208

 

[RedCardHack]

Thanks again for the research Idaho this appears to be the 22mm.

 

[Mackaydon]

These are similar to regular good luck pocket piece coins and souvenir good luck coins except that they promote a commercial product or political party. They were often given away or sold at a nominal charge. Their purpose is dual: to bring good luck and to remind the visitor of the consumer product or political candidate with which they are associated. Due to their nature as advertising pieces, these coins are less likely than other good luck coins to display the typical North America lucky icons -- except for the elephant, which does double duty as a good luck symbol and as the mascot of the Republican Party. The height of their manufacture seems to have been in the 1930s, during the Great Depression.

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C1. Political Advertising Good Luck Coin, bronze gold-plated, circa 1930s, 25 mm.
Obverse: Elephant
Legend: COOPER/LUCKY POCKET/PIECE
Reverse: No design
Legend: GOOD FOR/2/YEARS OF/PROSPERITY/IN OHIO
Note: the elephant appears here both as the proverbially lucky white elephant and as an icon of the Republican Party; the "prosperity" promised by the coin was presumably conditional upon the election of Mr. Cooper. In 1999, a reader named kkcueto@aol.com contacted me with the following information about this coin: "Myers Y. Cooper was a former governor of the state of Ohio. I know one of his grandsons still here in the state." So it looks like this coin was very, very lucky indeed!
Source: 20th Century North American Good Luck Coins

 

[cooper36]

“Cooper Lucky Pocket Piece” This was a coin for Myers Young Cooper when he ran .. and won the governorship of Ohio.

 

[Wldbil]

Cool finds...

 

[kam50]

I found one also 12/14/12 at a local park in Akron,Ohio.