good for 1 cent lunch, how old?

[jon43]

i been digging around in my box's of finds and wanted to post some of them. i know this is a token but i wonder how old it could be. how much of a lunch would 1 cent buy you. it has my towns name on it i do know the school that was tore down on 7th st. but i did not know how old it was.

 

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[diggummup]

Nice token.Looks like it has to be from the late 1800's or turn of the century, for a 1 cent lunch.The school was built around 1894 and it was a school for Afican American students.Lunch was 40 cents when I was in elem. in the 70's.Nice old token

 

[Pangus]

I dont think the 1 cent is the price of the lunch. Not to question anyone, but I think it means "Good for Lunch"..and the value of the coin is 1 cent. Like paper coupons nowadays say value 1/100 of a cent. I'm not sure WHY they have to put that on but I think they HAVE to put that on coupons. Just an idea.

 

[Burdie]

I think your correct Pangus. Burdie

 

[diggummup]

Yeah I agree.That would probably date it to the 30's then,whatever, it is a nice token.Post it on the tokens&tags page or PM Idahotokens he could probably tell you.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Jon,

very nice token.

have a good un...........

 

[jon43]

Yeah I agree.That would probably date it to the 30's then,whatever, it is a nice token.Post it on the tokens&tags page or PM Idahotokens he could probably tell you.

thank you all for looking and i done what you said and posted in tokens. this is one neat site.

 

[idahotokens]

My kids used to complain that this would have been about 1? more than their school lunches were worth! I've asked the guy who is heading up the effort to compile a KY token catalog if he knows about this token - I sure don't. Most school lunch tokens date from post WWII and I suspect that the 1? value is meaningless as was suggested. The school sold lunch tokens for whatever the going rate happened to be and redeemed the tokens for a lunch. Even with a heavily subsidized school lunch program, 1? is pretty low! Johnn in ID