✅ SOLVED Early token?

[Jyverb64]

I dug a couple coppers from the field yesterday morning and tooth picked them off this morning the one was a Canadian bank token but this one I had not seen before.

 

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[Hawks88]

Nice find. Congrats

 

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[Hawks88]

Bramblefind nice ID Congrats

 

[Mackaydon]

Great ID, Bramblefind !
John H. Fitzgibbon was a famous daquerreotypist.
His extensive bio can be seen here: (starting on page 231)
https://books.google.com/books?id=N...#v=onepage&q=Fitzgibbon Daguerreotype&f=false
Don........

 

[Jyverb64]

I suspected it was a 1850s era merchant token but I was focusing on New York tokens. I think though it could be a match for this one out of St. Louis--

That's awesome, thanks for the ID, that token traveled some distance.