✅ SOLVED Coal Company Scrip & I'm not sure what else!

[rlwood]

I found these two items at an old two room house. I tried to research the Braden Coal Company scrip, but didn't have any luck. The other coin/token, I can barely read. It mentions "A Piece of Eight". I figured it is probably some kind of game token, but I couldn't find anything on the internet. Any help with these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

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[nhbenz]

Apparently from the Crest Oil company: PIECES OF EIGHT / (sailing vessel) / THE CREST OIL COMPANY (TC-354222) Unknown, U.S.A.

 

[idahotokens]

The Briceville token is listed both in Copeland's Trade Tokens of TN and Edkins Catalog of Coal Company Scrip, but it is not on tokencatalog.com - please post pics of it there. The Braden Coal Company was founded by Andrew Braden - see https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47503998/andrew-braden

John in the Great 208

 

[Roundness]

Awesome token... Congrats

 

[rlwood]

Did the two sources you mentioned give an approximate date of when this token was used?

 

[idahotokens]

No, but the Braden Coal token looks ca. 1920 to me.
John

 

[rlwood]

Thank you!

 

[Kasper1212]

Awesome find!

 

[cw0909]

not sure but this book might be in a library near you
here are some snippet reads that mention the coal co
sidenote: some of my BnL older fam members worked for the co.
so the stories go/say
forgot to add, love the tokens
and
sorry forgot the snippets search link
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y...Appalachia&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q=braden&f=false

Circling Windrock Mountain: Two Hundred Years in Appalachia By Augusta Grove Bell
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y...den Coal Company&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=Y...tain: Two Hundred Years in Appalachia&f=false

 

[rlwood]

Thank you for the information!