C. D. Brown Token?

Robby Raccoon · Jul 16, 2015

There is one counter-stamped penny from the 1880s with this name, and his and other names as well have been seen on tokens ranging from the Civil War to T.O.C., but I cannot find this token among them.

Can anyone help, please? I'm looking for when it's from, where C. D. Brown did business, and what he did. There just isn't much to go on with such a simple token.

Nevadabottles · Jul 16, 2015

That's an awesome token, in Nevada I know if you find a token for a soda or whiskey they usually start at $50+. That is probably why I have never found one yet.

Robby Raccoon · Jul 16, 2015

I am not sure what he did, but thanks for the compliment. As store tokens went out in the Civil War as illegal, it's likely for a soda-dealer, seller of liquors, store-dairy or pharmacist-- I would think. It could be something totally different like the following token. This one likely holds little value. It isn't one that looks like, say, this one in my collection (although this is insurance and real estate

On my own site, here's my write-up on it:"A nice circa-1912 - 1918 advertising coin from my city.
"It has a Native American in canoe reaching for his gun in the lake. "MUSKE-GONE" [Muskegon and musket gone? (Insurance against loss?)]
"The back reads: W.W. Barcus / Real Estate / Insurance / Lyman Block / "Barkis is Willin" [Notice name-error?] / Muskegon, Mich." With what little I know on tokens, I can't resist picking them up at pennies to a few dollars-- unless I know of the token already. Here's one that's really fascinating for the history pertaining to the company:

Another write-up of mine:"When the Muskegon Traction & Lighting Co. increased their fare to ride the street cars from 6 cents to 7 in 1919, the people of my city rioted and burned all of Muskegon Trac. & Ltg. Co.'s barns and wrecked 13 of their street cars-- leaving us without public transportation for 2 weeks.
This token is early 1920s. "

One of our street-cars in 1919.

Nevadabottles · Jul 16, 2015

Wow, that's some cool tokens and facts.

Robby Raccoon · Jul 16, 2015

Well, I had responded, but it's gone. Thanks. Questions still remain, though....... When, where, what.

Robby Raccoon · Jul 16, 2015

This says that a new drug store had been opened by a C. D. Brown in 1903 over in Roxbury, Mass.

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