Can you ID these tokens?

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I found these in Va on an old home site that is now a farm field. 1524447188707.webp1524447232826.webp
 

I don't think that the one on the right is a token, thinking adjustment knob for an oil lamp?
On the left I'm thinking good for 2 pounds of tobacco?
Someone with way more knowledge will chime in.
You can clean the aluminum with real fine steel wool, just be gentle.
Both cool finds!
Carl
 

Welcome to the group, Hot - as Carl said, the one on the right is a wick adjuster from a lamp. The other one is from Petersburg, VA, I am relatively certain. I will confer with the VA token cataloger to see what he has to say and will get back with you. This is from the 1907 Petersburg city directory, but the business was operating from the 1880s. Aluminum tokens are generally post-1900.
John in the Great 208
 

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The VA token cataloger agrees that the David Dunlop token is from Petersburg. Would you be willing to post the pics of it on tokencatalog.com - or with the diameter and permission to use your pics, I could.
John
 

Sure I'll take some better picture and post them and u can use them.
 

The token looks to be bent. I have had good luck with bent tokens by placing them between two pieces of hardwood on a concrete floor and smacking the "sandwich" with a hammer.
John
Sure I'll take some better picture and post them and u can use them.
 

Boards and hammer worked like a charm. Here are better pics for the catalogs.20180427_202314.webp20180427_202244.webp
 

I could be mistaken, but I think the name on the token is David Durnlop. Looks like it to me anyways. Cool token either way!!
 

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