Anyone Recognize These?

[garypenta]

Found these matching coins/tokens a couple of feet apart today with my VX3. One is marked 5¢ (both sides are the same), and the other 50¢ (too corroded to see reverse).

Non-magnetic
Very thin copper
Flat side coin edging
No other visible markings
10¢ is 7/8", 2 grams
50¢ is 1.5", 4 grams

 

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[jeff of pa]

Nice Tokens, But I'm afraid you may need to Crack that Corrosion on the other side
to ID them

 

[ARC]

Trade tokens ?

 

[garypenta]

Upon closer look, neither token. has the ¢ symbol. Just a "50" one and a "5" on the other.

 

[garypenta]

Now that I know they aren't coins. It's cleaning time!

Both found on a lake shore. Possibly some sort of game or fishing award?

 

[garypenta]

I've tried antique "fishing, wildlife, speakeasy, board game, turkey shoot" with no luck.

 

[FFFPatriot]

I recognize that, all right. That is a genuine Chuck E. Cheese 5 cent coin. Get up to $765.00 worth in those babies, and you can pick something off of the top shelf there! Unfortunately, the prize will probably be a lot cheaper to go out and buy at the Dollar Tree store.

 

[DownNDirty]

Play money?

 

[jeff of pa]

Play money?

that is possible. usually even tokens tell you if they are points, cents, dollars,
and where for

 

[idahotokens]

These (what I call "generic") trade tokens were sometimes used by general stores that chose not to have customized tokens made with their name and location. The benefit was that they were cheap for the merchant to buy, but the downside was that they could not tell whether the token came from them or from the store down the road. They were probably used ca. 1915-1930 give or take.
John in the Great 208