Dug A Neat Trade Token

[Fullstock]

Hunted an area with a lot of Civil War activity this morning and dug this. At first I thought I dug a large cent, but then realized it was something else. After tooth picking it a bit when I got home, I could see it was a Smith Murphy & Company Philadelphia trade token. I researched it online and found out they were in business from 1845 to 1857. Turned out to be a good day. [emoji16]

 

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[Mackaydon]

Interesting history surrounds your token: [FONT=&quot]Smith & Murphy was in business from 1845 but went under during the Panic of 1857 after the ship, Central America, sank in a hurricane and banks collapsed when the gold shipment was lost.
Don.......[/FONT]

 

[Steve in PA]

Neat find. Love the colorful trade tokens of that era.

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Fullstock]

Interesting history surrounds your token: [FONT=&quot]Smith & Murphy was in business from 1845 but went under during the Panic of 1857 after the ship, Central America, sank in a hurricane and banks collapsed when the gold shipment was lost.
Don.......[/FONT]

Good information, thank you!

 

[Fullstock]

Neat find. Love the colorful trade tokens of that era.

So do I Steve

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome token recovery.

 

[glass half fool]

That is certainly a rare find .I don't know anything about it in particular but I would think there was not a lot of them to start with. Great find congrats !! I would do some more looking in that area . MAYBE you found the only one lost in the area or maybe there are several more there.

 

[_muppet_]

Cool find : ) That eagle was probably exciting to see, old tokens are always neat.

 

[against the wind]

Very nice, and it is in excellent condition.
Congratulations

 

[djackson7348]

Great history save.

 

[xcopperstax]

Great token and it came out really nicely after the cleaning! Congrats.. and that additional info from Don is some pretty neat history! Now hear me out on this: If you have a few thousand bucks to throw around you could buy a coin from that shipwreck to display next to it! It would be amazing trust me! Thanks for sharing a cool find!

 

[Relicific]

Love finding old tokens like that

 

[Fullstock]

Great token and it came out really nicely after the cleaning! Congrats.. and that additional info from Don is some pretty neat history! Now hear me out on this: If you have a few thousand bucks to throw around you could buy a coin from that shipwreck to display next to it! It would be amazing trust me! Thanks for sharing a cool find!

I like your idea, I just wish I the money to do that! [emoji16]

 

[U.B.]

I covet tokens. This hobby is,all about history, for me. That’s a beauty!

 

[Treasureman25]

nice find!!

 

[Fullstock]

I covet tokens. This hobby is,all about history, for me. That’s a beauty!

Me too U.B., the history of the relic is the best part.

 

[A2coins]

Thats really awesome I love tokens dont find many here but I like them more than silver Good job

 

[Fullstock]

Thats really awesome I love tokens dont find many here but I like them more than silver Good job

Thank you!

 

[washingtonian]

Very cool. I love unique stuff like that!!