Not a Bad day of Three Interesting finds....Coin/Token/Buttons!

[krednosreg45]

Token is printed on a 1881 British Farthing, found it at a old little mining town down here in old west country! Really cool button that I'm still trying to find out more about and what looks like to be an overall button...

 

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[Brendan75]

Hi, wow nice hunt. Congrats on the nice finds. That token is amazing

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Krednosreg. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice finds. I like that token.

 

[Subterranean]

That Arizona Territory token is awesome, congrats! The disc with the seated Pope/Hawaiian King/Native American King (?) is intriguing, is it a button or maybe it fell off of a medal? What does the back of it look like? Sub

 

[krednosreg45]

That Arizona Territory token is awesome, congrats! The disc with the seated Pope/Hawaiian King/Native American King (?) is intriguing, is it a button or maybe it fell off of a medal? What does the back of it look like? Sub

The back has your typical loop and the button is slightly at a bowl shape... No writing at all.

 

[Relicific]

Excellent hunt
Very cool tokens

 

[idahotokens]

Great finds! Please post the token on tokencatalog.com - maybe the identity of Mr. Wise can be learned as those folks have access to a lot of old directories, etc.
John in the Great 208

 

[thrifty76now]

Nice finds.Is that a good for one cigar token?

 

[krednosreg45]

Nice finds.Is that a good for one cigar token?

Yes indeed! After doing a little research I'm thinking that its from the mining operations from back then... a company store token... One of the miners must of been sad when he lost his token for his cigar...

 

[washingtonian]

Those are some nice, old finds. Well done!!

 

[BondJamesBond]

That token was stamped by Jim Wise from Bowie Az. I knew Jim for many years as a friend and fellow metal detectorist. For a short period of time Jim would take some of the stamped tokens
with him while he metal detected and bury them as a rememberance after he died. I have one myself that I located in Dos Cabezas Az. I am sure Jim is glad you found it.

Bond

 

[krednosreg45]

That token was stamped by Jim Wise from Bowie Az. I knew Jim for many years as a friend and fellow metal detectorist. For a short period of time Jim would take some of the stamped tokens
with him while he metal detected and bury them as a rememberance after he died. I have one myself that I located in Dos Cabezas Az. I am sure Jim is glad you found it.

Bond

Say whatttt?...I'm confused now hahah... Did he put all the writing on the token? Or just Wise/Bowie.....

 

[krednosreg45]

Im guessing now its not that actually an old token now hahaha.

 

[idahotokens]

I guess that explains the use of the farthing - worn ones can be found in coin dealers' junk boxes and letter punches are readily available.
John

 

[BondJamesBond]

Bond Wise token

Sorry if I confused anyone. Jim Would take old English and other foreign currency that had little to no value and hand stamp the coinage as shown in this post. I was one of his victims once when he found a blank
a bank oval tag and enscribed it with Bowie Arizona Dog Tag 1911 on it. I actually took it over to him and is very proud that I had found it. He just chuckled and he said is that where I lost that when I

told him where I found it. You had to know Jim


Bond

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool cigar token, looks like an 188x modified coin!

 

[sutphin]

NICE FINDS

 

[CRUSADER]

I'm not sure but I think that was a halfpenny not farthing.

 

[BondJamesBond]

It is true that Jim used old English and other coins that were worn and hand stamped them. It was something he did to occupy his time and leave a rememberance of his time on earth. His real passion was Arizona trade tokens and old license plates.

Bond