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State Coin/Token 2-sided

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KennLove

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Greetings, all!
My wife has the camera, so I'm going to describe as best I can this coin/token I found in the backyard yesterday evening.
I'm looking for who issued it and any date timeline. I found it near where I also unearthed a 1942 Capt. Midnight Photomatic Code-a-Graph badge. Like to know if it is from the same era.
The coin/token is the exact same size as a quarter, a bit lighter in weight, color is the same. One side has MASSACHUSETTS written in block caps in an arc. The state outline is beneath, with a frontiersman standing with a rifle at his hip, pointing it forward. Beneath that are the words STATES OF THE UNION in block caps in an arc across the bottom.
The other side in which the WEST VIRGINIA and the STATES OF THE UNION are located and written the same way as the Massachusetts side, shows the outline of West Virginia with a bucolic/homestead scene in the midst.
The edge of the coin/token has ridges, again, like a quarter.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Kenn Love
 
The Mass. side sounds like our Mass. state quarter. The WV side does not.

In the 60's Shell oil put out a Presidents coin game. Each aluminum quarter sized coin bore the likeness, name and date of a different president.

I have also found Man in Space tokens which were very similiar.

It is probably a promo item of some kind. It may not be worth a whole lot, but things like that are alot more interesting than the usual pull tab / bottle cap aren't they.

Take care and Good luck. Dave
 
Greetings, Dave
Yes, they are interesting.
Thanks for the help.
Kenn
 
I also found! with 1776 First President with George Washington on front and back(also looks like a quarter)When i came out of the woods and showed it to my wife she said that's a quarter and i flipped it over and i said with the head of George Washington on both sides!.After doing some internet research and thinking about it i also believe it was put out by a gas station as a game,token,magic quarter(mine has a hole for necklace)Nice find!
 
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