What on earth are these?? (1 Viewer)

[FlushMD]

I unearthed these Neanderthal tokens buried in my collection. They appear to be hand struck with many imperfections. They are thinner and feel heavier than their modern day cousins. I cannot image they were used in casinos, but who knows. Does anyone recognize these beauties and can help shed some light? Perhaps they are still good for a beer in some ghost town saloon in the desert. The pictures are front and back of 2 tokens. I have several more with similar strike patterns.

Thanks,
FlushMD

 

[Colquhoun]

Interesting find. There seem to be a number of them on eBay, but none of the sellers have any info on the origin.

 

[FlushMD]

Interesting find. There seem to be a number of them on eBay, but none of the sellers have any info on the origin.

Thanks, I do see a few listings on eBay.

Some of the pictures show the same strike defect on the left side of the "ONE". They are about half as thin as modern casino chips. Some of the listings say they were slot tokens. But I'm not so sure. The tokens are not well shaped for slot machines. Some are a bit convex or bumpy. I would imagine slot machines would be more sensitive and require explicit size/shape/weights to function properly. I think they may be better suited to blackjack or other non-machine games.

Gosh, I wish I had time to scour the Vegas valley for someone that might remember or have a good reference to the history!

 

[LeLe]

I guessing they are similar to game token