Smoken Token

litefire56 · Oct 10, 2008

Hi everybody... dug a 5 cent trade token today, and was wondering if anyone knows what the significance of the number 26 on the reverse would be? Most I've seen have the proprietors name or some initials.
Thanks,
John

litefire56 · Oct 10, 2008

front side

mtntrekr2 · Oct 10, 2008

May have come from an arcade machine and the 26 represents the prize
it was good for.
just my thoughts
Joe

Brett · Oct 10, 2008

Big Congrats on your first trade token dad! The 26 is for your metal detecting age ;-) May you have the strength this weekend... we're going to tear it up!!!!

REALLY COOL TOKEN!!! :thumbsup:

trikikiwi · Oct 11, 2008

RootMaster said:
Big Congrats on your first trade token dad! The 26 is for your metal detecting age ;-) May you have the strength this weekend... we're going to tear it up!!!!

REALLY COOL TOKEN!!!

Dad is spelt with a capital D

- and cool find and let us hear about the 'tear up' guys :thumbsup:

Mike

Brett · Oct 11, 2008

trikikiwi said:
Dad is spelt with a capital D
- and cool find and let us hear about the 'tear up' guys

Mike

You're right! My DAD is the best and deserves the dignified capitalization of his life title ;-)

If I was a robot, I'd be powering up right now doing circles in my living room reading all of my metal detecting books forwards and backwards screaming MORE INPUT!!!!!!!!!!!! just WAITING to get out with my DAD and BRO for a weekend of pure metal detecting bliss.

onamission · Oct 16, 2008

The # 26 on the back was most likely a salesmans sample of a token "style".......after selling the token to the buisness they would have the business replacing that "style" number.

Tom

TerryC · Oct 16, 2008

May I add that the 26 is the vendor at the carnaval. Good for tokens replaced money at the site. When the "trade" was paid for by token, "26" (in this csae) owed the bank to settle up before moving to the next site. TTC

onamission · Oct 17, 2008

Not what I ment at all......the salesman would contact the merchant and sell tokens to the merchant.......the merchant would assign whatever value they wanted 5cents....free drink.... free night in the bordello....whatever.

The merchant would then give these tokens to promote their value.... the banks had nothing to do with this at all.....sorry if I wasn't clear.....wow.... maybe I'm wrong......acording to my wife I am wrong quite often.... :tongue3:

Tom

TerryC · Oct 17, 2008

onamission said:
Not what I ment at all......the salesman would contact the merchant and sell tokens to the merchant.......the merchant would assign whatever value they wanted 5cents....free drink.... free night in the bordello....whatever.

The merchant would then give these tokens to promote their value.... the banks had nothing to do with this at all.....sorry if I wasn't clear.....wow.... maybe I'm wrong......acording to my wife I am wrong quite often....

Tom

Sorry Tom,
My fault for not defining "bank". Many carnevals were run on tokens. The "bank" was the guy(s) that handled the money.