✅ SOLVED Token? ID help

granthansen · Nov 25, 2012

Found this little gem in my parents' backyard. It's got a big hole in the middle. It's very small, about 16mm wide. Smaller than a dime. I've been working very hard to bring out the detail. It's getting there, but I'm stumped!

idahotokens · Nov 25, 2012

Okay, Grant--I'm going way out on a limb here, but how about a souvenir piece from A. C. Biggleswade? I can kinda make out the first part of that from the pic now that you have worked on it. Anyway, the name of the English football (soccer on our side of the pond) team is now Biggleswade Town Football Club, but a lot of teams there go by "A. C." for Athletic Club. The club's current logo is:

and the thing above the 1950 date on yours might be one of the heron(?)'s feet. So, that's my story and Ill stick to it until we hear otherwise. Any Brits care to comment? And the last letters of the last word seem to be ELD - can you make out anything before that?

John in the Great 208

HEAVYMETALNUT · Nov 25, 2012

idahotokens said:
Okay, Grant--I'm going way out on a limb here, but how about a souvenir piece from A. C. Biggleswade? I can kinda make out the first part of that from the pic now that you have worked on it. Anyway, the name of the English football (soccer on our side of the pond) team is now Biggleswade Town Football Club, but a lot of teams there go by "A. C." for Athletic Club. The club's current logo is:

and the thing above the 1950 date on yours might be one of the heron(?)'s feet. So, that's my story and Ill stick to it until we hear otherwise. Any Brits care to comment? And the last letters of the last word seem to be ELD - can you make out anything before that?

John in the Great 208

F?ELD

kuger · Nov 25, 2012

Hate to tell ya...It says "Big Cock".I found one that dates to the 1870's that says"Award for..........",with a picture of a rooster.I never have seen another,or found any info what it was really for?

nhbenz · Nov 25, 2012

"Feld" was the old way of spelling Field in England, so I'm tending to think IdahoTokens may be on the right track. For example Sheffield used to be Sheaf Feld, but this was longer ago than the token, so ?? Maybe they used the old spelling of whatever town it was (that now ends in Field, of which there are probably in the thousands)

granthansen · Nov 26, 2012

You guys are all giving me great leads to follow, thanks! Kuger, I can't investigate your theory from work though, lol. I'm determined to ID this little guy.

idahotokens · Nov 26, 2012

Grant--Can you lay out the lettering that you can read - it might help us help you. Kinda in the format:

A. C. BIGG___ RA_O E__ _ELD

John in the Great 208

granthansen · Nov 26, 2012

idahotokens said:
Grant--Can you lay out the lettering that you can read - it might help us help you. Kinda in the format:

A. C. BIGG___ RA_O E__ _ELD

John in the Great 208

Thanks for the idea... I think what I need to do is figure out how many missing pieces there are, like you did, and figure out what combination of words I can come up with, and then search all of them. I'm not certain that it's BIGG or BIGC or even 13CC. Maybe once I figure out the blanks I'll send over to some wordsmith friends of mine and challenge them to a game of hangman.

granthansen · Nov 27, 2012

BOOOYAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

I soaked and tooth-picked for another 10 minutes tonight and revealed "rauenfeld" and a search resulted in this:
Fitzwilliam Museum Collections Explorer - Object CM.3605-2003 (Id:159632)

Replica toy coin, I think made in 1969. Which is consistent with a Shell gas station coin I found in the front yard circa 1968.

idahotokens · Nov 27, 2012

Way to go! A bit more searching finds that the A. G. Sigg company of Frauenfeld, Switzerland is an aluminum processing company. There are examples dated 1950 and 1969 and some theorize that they were patterns made in an attempt to show the Swiss government how coinage could be made in aluminum.
John in the Great 208