I had a great token day (Thanks Sam)

[Truth]

A friend of mine got a permission to metal detect this old house in Mandeville Louisiana which is the town next to me which is much older I managed to pull seven tokens of the same make this is a family that is still doing Business in Mandeville Louisiana. I also found a patient plate for scales for candy. I’ve never found so many tokens before and my friend he found six himself and I was just in the backyard. They’ll be more to come. Oh and I forgot this one I thought it was made a lead and I just cleaned it up and I’m biting my hand it’s from New Orleans and I must of hit it

 

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[smallfoot]

Man, that's cool! I enjoy tokens as much as coins..

 

[mddavis3]

Awesome bunch of tokens. I enjoy finding them and learning the history of the merchant.

 

[villagenut]

Very nice old tokens.....Looks to have some age to them, maybe early 1900s to the teens maybe.

 

[Truth]

Man, that's cool! I enjoy tokens as much as coins..

I’m the same way I love a token especially when it’s local which they mostly are LOL

 

[Truth]

Awesome bunch of tokens. I enjoy finding them and learning the history of the merchant.

Me too the family still lives in Mandeville ones a lawyer

 

[Truth]

Very nice old tokens.....Looks to have some age to them, maybe early 1900s to the teens maybe.

1898 and early 1900s

 

[Red-Coat]

Good haul. Apparently, 'E. Prieto' was 'John Ernest Prieto'. There's some interesting history on Ernest at the link below, together with pictures of the man, his family and their rather splendid house.

Family History Overview

Seemingly the family owned schooners, and a cattle ranch with an abattoir among other things. There are some similar tokens pictured which are said to have been used to pay the family's workers and were redeemable at the mercantile store they established on the corner of Jefferson and Gerard (Girod) Streets. It also had a bar in the cellar.

 

[villival]

Guys, it's E. Prieto. I grew up in Mandeville, Covington, Abita Springs since about 71 or 72. Ernest Prieto was mayor at some point. My grandfather was a contemporary of his. I have to look that up.

We used to hunt old man Prieto's cow fields in Mandeville, back in the day, for certain types of mushrooms.

Clay Prieto owns Rip's restaurant on the lakefront.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Now that's a handful of tokens ! Great finds.

 

[Truth]

Good haul. Apparently, 'E. Prieto' was 'John Ernest Prieto'. There's some interesting history on Ernest at the link below, together with pictures of the man, his family and their rather splendid house.

Family History Overview

Seemingly the family owned schooners, and a cattle ranch with an abattoir among other things. There are some similar tokens pictured which are said to have been used to pay the family's workers and were redeemable at the mercantile store they established on the corner of Jefferson and Gerard (Girod) Streets. It also had a bar in the cellar.

I appreciate that Red Coat I really do I’m gonna read on it now.

 

[Truth]

Guys, it's E. Prieto. I grew up in Mandeville, Covington, Abita Springs since about 71 or 72. Ernest Prieto was mayor at some point. My grandfather was a contemporary of his. I have to look that up.

We used to hunt old man Prieto's cow fields in Mandeville, back in the day, for certain types of mushrooms.

Clay Prieto owns Rip's restaurant on the lakefront.

Where those mushrooms called Prieto’s Magic Mushrooms?

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome hunt, congrats!