Digitdude
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Does anyone knoe what this is?
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Ice Scratcher
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Toy money sounds like..
waltr
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Token?
What does the other side look like?
What does the other side look like?
Digitdude
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Exactly the same thing, it's so weird, there's no writing, no date,no bust,it's the same on both sides, STUMPED.
Rock Jock
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Looks like a "good for" token but lacks the rest of the story. It occurs to me that some amusement parks and boardwalk arcades would make patrons purchase a handful of tokens to access amusements, kinda like subway tokens in stiles. I wonder if this token could be one of those.
Digitdude
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Yes,totally agree. Doesn't say ANYTHING. Found it in my neighborhood, it's a mill village, didn't know if it had come from the STARTEX MILL,STARTEX S.C. I've always heard about tokens that came from there but never have seen any. I like your idea better. Thanks for the response, DIG*IT*DUDE out
Bilgemaster
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It seems that the Startex Mill in Tucapau, SC (Startex's former name) did issue its own tokens. They didn't resemble the original poster's, but that such "Hard Times Tokens" or "Good Fors" were fairly common in times of coinage scarcity is recorded in the once-common dictum, "Don't take any wooden nickels." If such tokens were in common use, other merchants in the town may have circulated similar "unpersonalized" trade tokens.
pryan67
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Do you have a picture?
kingman mikey
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Need a pic 
BentRod
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Sans a pic I agree with Ice...sounds like typical toy money. Is it made of aluminum?
Beachhunter
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Show us the money!
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GKL
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That's a tough one to track down, did an image search but did not see any with just a 5 and the cent mark and nothing else at all.
