ID Help needed!!!

[Dan32981]

Hi everyone as i mentioned in my previous post, i found a small bronze/copper? token or coin, with an image of a deer/elk head on the obverse and the entire reverse is full of writing, the corrosion and tiny letters make it even hard to read with a jewelers loop, any help would be greatly appreciated, im still flipping through my tokens book, and i have not had any luck searching the net!! I can try to get some better pictures if the ones posted won't help. Thanks! and happy hunting!

-Dan

 

[allen]

When I hit the libraries reference area
today, i'll look it up in their token book...

 

[FooserPaul]

I'd love to help you... but I do believe we are going to need better, larger, closer.... pictures....

Paul

 

[jimbob450]

Also might have better luck if you posted in the
What is it forum. Jimbob

 

[STH69]

Looks like a commerative?

 

[artzstuff1]

Could it be from the royal order elks lodge??,, just a thought,,,,,


art

 

[Got_4by4]

It looks to be "B.P.O.E.", Benevolent Protective Order ofElks, to me. Might have something to do with remembering the 11th hour.

Steve

 

[Nick A]

My gut feeling is Elks token as well.

http://www.elks.org/history/toast.cfm

The Hour of Recollection

Deceased and otherwise absent lodge members are recalled each evening at 11 p.m. when the lodge esquire intones, "It is the Hour of Recollection." The exalted ruler or a member designated by him gives the 11 o'clock toast, of which this version is the most common:

"You have heard the tolling of eleven strokes. This is to remind you that with Elks, the hour of eleven has a tender significance. Wherever Elks may roam, whatever their lot in life may be, when this hour tolls upon the dial of night, the great heart of Elkdom swells and throbs. It is the golden hour of recollection, the homecoming of those who wander, the mystic roll call of those who will come no more. Living or dead, an Elk is never forgotten, never forsaken. Morning and noon may pass him by, the light of day sink heedlessly into the west. But ere the shadows of midnight shall fall, the chimes of memory shall be pealing forth the friendly message: To our absent members."