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Any token Guru's here?
- Thread starter dmckee17
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joe dirt_1
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nice token. did you google the merchant also? it might give you some idea as to the time frame the token was used.
I am not a guru but, I just seen a segment on the TV show called "Pawn Stars". They talked about this type of Token. I suspect it to be a company store token. Companies use to pay there workers in tokens good only at the "company store". I don't know if you ever heard the song "I owe my soul to the Company store". But product were sold to employees at inflated prices, so the worker never got out of debt and had to wok for them until they died or the company went out of business. Just another form of Slavery. Hope I am of help
That is so cool. Back in the civil war there was a great demand for more foundries/furnaces in the south. Virginia is loaded with little towns with names that end with furnace. I believe it is in Shenandoah county not far from the West Virginia border. I am also fairly certain there are some remains still standing of the foundry. I have been to that part of Virginia several times to hunt turkeys. Some beautiful country. And the locals are great people, it is such a small place that research might be easy or hard in tracking down the time frame of the merchants existence. Nice ring too! wanna hear what's really freaky, not that I've been to Columbia furnace Virginia and seen the ruins, but that I found a sterling silver baby's ring with a little ruby 3 days ago! It is so small it fits inside of a dimes circumference with room to spare. When I get up to speed with computers (this is my first one) I will post the ring sitting on a dime. The ring is marked with a "U" for the manufacturer uncas. the uncas maker mark was a U between two arrows from 1922 to 1988. If your ring is marked "sterling>U<" That will just be too much of a coincidence. peace.
My ring was so small it did not hit as silver the first two times I swept that area. It was only when I was digging "iffy" and deep soft hits on the third sweep. I hit it going slow and it was only 3 inches deep. I thought mine was a piece of aluminum when packed with dirt. It's those moments that make detecting so exciting. Sorry I can't help more with that cool token. If I go back down to Virginia to hunt again I will see what I can "dig up" for you about it. Maybe even get a pic of the old foundry ruins.