First trade token and it's a big local one - also fragment of another & tiny elephant

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First trade token and it's a big local one - also fragment of another & tiny elephant

A big city-owned lot near me that was formerly a farmyard just got mowed Friday and I always go back over it after a new mowing. I hit the fragment that I was pretty sure was a trade token first, then the big 50-center within six or eight feet of the fragment was readable right out of the ground. The E.G. Davison General Merchandise store here in Leonardville burned in 1917; it's possible that someone tossed them in the grass after learning the store would not rebuild. Smaller one was a ten-center. The little elephant I found a few hours earlier under a big tree at my work, different town. Heavy for size, guess it's lead. I'd found a tax token and a pinball token but wanted a local trade token bad so I'm quite happy! P1011033.webpP1011032.webp
 

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I would have to guess the token may have been a fire. Looks like fire damage to me. I would have been happy with finding it! 50 cents would have had a lot of buying power in 1917.
 

I would have to guess the token may have been a fire. Looks like fire damage to me. I would have been happy with finding it! 50 cents would have had a lot of buying power in 1917.

The whole one? It is slightly domed but I'm chicken to try to flatten it. Or did you mean the partial one? I've found a couple of melted looking things on the same lot.
 

Nice finds . Congrats
 

Nice finds! The 25¢ and 50¢ denominations are the only ones listed in the Oller & Johnson Kansas Trade Tokens book. Neither is listed on tokencatalog.com so I would hope you would post at least the 50¢ one there. And when you find whole ones of the other denominations, post them as well.
John in the Great 208
 

Nice finds! The 25¢ and 50¢ denominations are the only ones listed in the Oller & Johnson Kansas Trade Tokens book. Neither is listed on tokencatalog.com so I would hope you would post at least the 50¢ one there. And when you find whole ones of the other denominations, post them as well.
John in the Great 208

Sure will! Thanks!
 

The 50 cent token that you say is done shaped is probably that way from heat. I usually flatten a coin/token like that by sandwiching it between to blocks of wood and clamp in a vise. Nice finds!
 

Very nice. Trade tokens are always a good recovery.
 

Very nice token, congrats!
 

Ya gotta like those old good fors,
 

cool finds first eleohant >>ive seen pozted good display token
 

Congratualtions!
 

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