Found token- Emory Mercantile, Emory Tex./ Good for 5c merchandise

[nathan104]

Found this metal detecting yesterday. Its not often you find a token for your hometown when you live in such a small town like I do. The only reference I could find to the Emory Mercantile was ads from the early Rain county newspaper from 1909-1915. I had never known of any types of token for my town before finding this one and I don't find any like this in any searching online. Looks like someone may have made it into a ring or a button or something. Or is it possible the holes were punched when it was redeemed or something?

Emory Mercantile, Emory Tex.

Good for 5c merchandise

 

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[idahotokens]

Nice find! There are two tokens listed on tokencatalog.com from Emory - but not this one. Please post your pics there, or with permission I can do it. More than likely, this is just one denomination of a 5¢ through $1 set used by this business, so more might be out there! Sometimes tokens are cancelled or otherwise punched/holed/counterstamped, usually to signify a change in ownership of the business, but this looks like somebody was messing around with it. Since tokens were designed to be used multiple times, they were hardly ever marked every time they were redeemed.
John in the Great 208

 

[nathan104]

Thanks for the info! Please feel free to share the photo at token catalog.

 

[Mackaydon]

[FONT=&quot]The Rains County LEader
April 23, 1909
The Emory Mercantile Company will open for business next week on the east side of the square with a $20,000.00 stock of goods. The stockholders in the company are Messrs. M.L. Allen, B.M. McMahan, Mrs. E.B. Adams and Mrs. Willett, and will be incorporated. The business will be under the management of Mr. Allen, who is one of our leading business men.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txrains/business.htm
Don......[/FONT]

 

[idahotokens]

Will do - is it 21mm in diameter - the same as a nickel?
John

Thanks for the info! Please feel free to share the photo at token catalog.

 

[nathan104]

It is the same size as a US quarter