Railroad Tokens???

[TXPlugKutter]

I found these tokens at an old homesite. They were all placed together, obviously buried. I took them to a local antique dealer and he said he thought they were railroad pay tokens to be used at railroad stores. They do not have any other markings other than the cent value. This value is on both sides. They are copper so I don't think they are play money. Does anybody have any ideas on what they are and if they are worth more than face value?

 

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[soar697877]

Here is one resource to look at:

http://www.lofthouse.com/USA/Utah/carbon/tokens.html


The above link has many pictures of trade tokens. I have an unusual Heavy
2 1/2 in token I am trying to get the history on as well. Here is a few pics of it:

 

[Brice47933]

Hello. I am from indiana and I just dug up one of the 50c coins in my backyard. Did you ever find out what it was? Feel free to email me brice47933@yahoo.com

 

[idahotokens]

These (I call them "generic") trade tokens were sometimes used by general stores that chose not to have customized tokens made with their name and location. The benefit was that they were cheap for the merchant to buy, but the downside was that they could not tell whether the token came from them or from the store down the road. They were probably used ca. 1915-1930 give or take, found all over the country, and were in denominations from 5¢ to $1.

John in the Great 208