Need help with big copper coin/token ID

[Elad]

I dug this today. Was shallow and I was surprised to unearth a big old heavy copper.

What is it?

Sigh... I think I just figured it out. The V8 is referring to an engine... this is a Ford token.

 

[daroofa]

1933 - 30 years of progress Ford token

 

[Mackaydon]

While many think that Ford Motor Company’s brass coins that were created for the 1933 Detroit and New York Auto Shows were also part of the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair, they were not. The probable link between the Fair and the coins is that they all carried 1933 on them. While the Fair used ‘A Century of Progress’, Ford used ’Thirty Years of Progress’. The Detroit Show opened on October 21, 1933 in the Detroit Convention Hall. Its theme was to celebrate the ‘Thirty Years of Progress’ that the Ford Motor Company had accomplished since its founding. It was a free show and was held over for a second week. Over 1.1 million people came to see the free entertainment. The New York ‘Thirty Years of Progress’ show opened on December 9, 1933, at the Port Authority Building and ran for one week.


Ford was at Detroit and New York, but not Chicago. The Detroit Ford Exposition brass coin has the 1933 car grille with Ford script in the middle and 1903 and 1933 on one side. The obverse has the V-8 in the center and the words Thirty Years of Progress around the edge. It is approximately 1 ¼ inches in diameter. The New York Ford Exposition brass coin is only 1 1/8 inches in diameter and has the Ford Oval with the words Thirty Years of Progress around the edge on one side and the V-8 and 1903 and 1933 on the other. Presumably, these coins were handed out for free during the shows, and they cause a lot of sellers to think that Ford was at the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair.
Don.......
Source: http://monkey.he.net/~kes4/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=41

 

[Elad]

Cool thanks for the info.

 

[AU24K]

Nice ID, Don!
I was thinking Automotive when I first saw the pic...

Best Wishes,
Scott