Smoke The Columbia 5c Cigar / J / Good For One Columbia 5c Cigar - Need ID

[Pocket Change]

Token is white metal, 20mm with J Initial in Center. Need City & State.

 

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[chub]

Need City & State.[/QUOTE]

Are you hoping to see if its still valid?

I cant help Im afraid, but it looks in fantastic condition for white metal! Not sure what era a cigar would cost 5C... but pre Cuba embargo?

chub

 

[Mackaydon]

PC: I see you tried to get this token ID-ed four years ago; good luck this time around.
You may wish to ask this seller: https://www.ebay.com/itm/034-Columb...dPxfSTS1QE%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc
Or this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/GFT-Columb...-Cents-Logansport-IN-Lot-EC-710-/323979918787
Don.......

 

[Red-Coat]

It’s listed below but with a letter ‘L’ in the centre and attributed to Logansport, Indiana via a 1912 advert in the Pharo-Tribune that says the Columbia 5c Cigar was “Made in [the] city”. I think that should be “Pharos Tribune” which was (still is) a daily newspaper based in Logansport, covering Cass County.

https://tinyurl.com/ryezfnc



That agrees with one of the eBay listings provided by @Mackaydon above which assigns it to Logansport, but with the letter ‘R’. I have no idea what the letters mean or whether only the ‘L’ version of the token is from Logansport but I’ve now seen these tokens with B, F, G, J, L and R (and I’m not 100% sure but I think also M).

Some sources suggest these tokens were included in payout from table-top trade-promoting slot machines, but not exclusively so. The same advertisement for the Columbia 5c Cigar also exists on jukebox tokens associated with Alpert/Smith but with the tokens being valid for one play on the juke.