Dodo tokens?

[Thonolan]

Last August, I found two of these things while detecting a sidewalk strip. This April, I found another one just a few houses away on the same block. All of them came out of the ground looking like copper. As an experiment, I soaked this one in vinegar- clearly they are not copper.

Does anyone know the name of the company that made them? Were they offered as premiums with some other product? Was it part of a set? Any help would be appreciated.

 

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[Thonolan]

I appreciate the reply, but I don't really see the connection.

 

[Thonolan]

Actually, I understood what you were saying, I'm just not convinced. It just seems like you're reaching.

 

[Thonolan]

After all this time, I finally found out what these things are. There's a guy selling two of them on e-bay. Here's the info he provided:

"This token was designed by a teenage college student and avid numismatist to be sold prior to the 1964 Presidential election. LBJ was running against Barry Goldwater and felt he had to make some serious campaign promises. We had just gone off the "silver standard" so he promised to get us out of Vietnam and to have a coin produced by the U.S. government of 90% silver and weighing 1 oz. The numismatist student was enraged by the obvious lie and decided to make a satirical political coin, The Dodo Dollar. The striking was 3000 and was an economic failure resulting in approx 1/2 being sold at the time of the 1964 election, and most of the rest were lost in a later burglary. The token measures 1 3/8" in diameter and is made of nickel-steel. It has a great high relief head of the Dodo Bird on obverse and "Dodo Bird Symbol Of Extinction." The reverse, "In Commemoration Of The Bird That Was, The Coin That Wasn't 1964, Not Negotiable." "

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brilliant-Uncir...oryZ3455QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I think it's amazing that out of 3,000 made, I've dug up three of them.

 

[diggummup]

I guess JC wasn't "reaching" too far after all.Seems indirectly related to the '64 Peace dollar that never was, at the very least. . Nice finds by the way!

 

[Thonolan]

Yeah, JC wasn't too far off. Next time, I'll listen to him.