Good Luck whatzit....

[wayne_etc]

I found this good luck token in an old park. Its about half dollar sized, says "Lucky" in the middle. Rang in the coins-high zone of my CZ70.

Around the edges says "L.K. WYNELL LOVE FAREVER". Yep, spelled wrong. It was folded perfectly in half when I found it, I mucked it up a good bit trying to unfold it.

Cool find nontheless

 

[Anonymous]

From the link below:

(F) ARCADE-STAMPED GOOD LUCK COINS
Custom-stamped aluminum lucky tokens are sold from machines at amusement parks. Depositing a coin into the machine causes an aluminum blank to drop down into a holding slot where it is visible. The purchaser selects words to custom-stamp around the flat outer ring by "typing" the letters to be imprinted one at a time and pulling down on levers on the machine. Each letter selection creates a loud "thump" as a die comes down and stamps the letter, and the coin is then rotated so that the next letter can be stamped. The letters are raised, all caps, against a cross-hatched background. The cross-hatched background is also used for skip-spaces. No punctuation marks are allowed, only the 26 letters of the alphabet and the cross-hatched blank space. There are 32 spaces that can be filled with letters. Because they are pierced, these tokens only vaguely resemble actual coinage. There are several forms of blanks made, and of course the stamping on them is as individual as the people who buy them.

Also a number of other types of cool good luck charms here. Thanks for posting Wayne etc!
http://www.luckymojo.com/goodluckcoins.html

 

[wayne_etc]

n/t

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a simlilar item we found in Dunn Loring, VA.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

back in the seventies. not so many anymore, although some of the older carnivals and amusement parks still have the old machines. Almost all of them profess true love forever. Wonder how many of them are still paired off?

 

[allhuntedout]

There's a L.K. Wynell listed in the 1950 and 1952 city directories for New Britain Connecticut.