Hey Big Bob, hopefully you're lurking because I came across a token hoard you'd probably find interesting.
They're all from an early 1910s bar/saloon in the Midwest, the town had nearly 15,000 residents back then but is down to about 12,500 now.
On
Tokencatalog.com there are only 2 versions listed, the small brass 5c which was evidently unlisted in the go-to printed 1983 reference book for the region and a listing for the scalloped aluminum 5c that I believe was in the printed book but which Tokencatalog still needs a picture of. Amusingly I only found 1 of each of the known tokens.
All the others are apparently unknown, there are 17 5c round aluminum, 18 and 27 25c brass tokens with distinctly different text arrangements on the obverse dies, and a whopping 33 of the big 50 cent tokens! I'm certain that a hoard full of unusually high denominations could only have been in the possession of the proprietor and that for some reason they got passed down through the family for 100 years instead of being sent to the town dump after prohibition killed the business.
Since my job is to get the most I can for them I'll be shrewd and only list for auction 1 of each *Rare Unlisted* type and see what the interest and bidding activity looks like. I'd be surprised if there are more than 4 or 5 collectors in the whole country who would care about them at any given time so whether or not they sell high I'll probably need to wait at least 4-6 months before listing any more. It's likely a situation where the first few tokens would yield more than the 15-30 remaining ones combined if I flood the market so I guess I gotta meter 'em out slowly over the next 20 years like The Chosen do with their diamonds, should be fun lol.
