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I found this coin/token? last year while searching an old amusement park site from the turn of the century.It is made from an Indian head penny as you can still see the remains of the wreath and shield on the Reverse. On the Obverse there is no image but the coin has been counter stamped 1884 84 2 1/2 The 84 stamp looks like 34 but under magnification it is 84. Around the outer rim it has been drilled through with 8 small holes almost evenly spaced from each other. I found this near where there used to be a post office. I am trying to find out what it is and what it was used for. I have sent these pictures to Mark Parker of Western and Eastern Treasures magazine. He was unable to identify it. He also sent it to a token collector who had no idea either.I have it posted on 2 other forums and have been told it was a store token or a scale weight. I weighed it on a postage meter and got .28 or slightly more than a quarter oz.It has no gilding on it as I have been told it's a counterfeit 2 1/2 dollar Gold coin.Has anybody out there ever seen anything similar or have found one of these too? I wonder what the significance of the date is? What was the value of a quarter oz of gold in 1884? could some one have been weighing gold with this?
garwad1
I found this coin/token? last year while searching an old amusement park site from the turn of the century.It is made from an Indian head penny as you can still see the remains of the wreath and shield on the Reverse. On the Obverse there is no image but the coin has been counter stamped 1884 84 2 1/2 The 84 stamp looks like 34 but under magnification it is 84. Around the outer rim it has been drilled through with 8 small holes almost evenly spaced from each other. I found this near where there used to be a post office. I am trying to find out what it is and what it was used for. I have sent these pictures to Mark Parker of Western and Eastern Treasures magazine. He was unable to identify it. He also sent it to a token collector who had no idea either.I have it posted on 2 other forums and have been told it was a store token or a scale weight. I weighed it on a postage meter and got .28 or slightly more than a quarter oz.It has no gilding on it as I have been told it's a counterfeit 2 1/2 dollar Gold coin.Has anybody out there ever seen anything similar or have found one of these too? I wonder what the significance of the date is? What was the value of a quarter oz of gold in 1884? could some one have been weighing gold with this?
garwad1