Help ID!! old coins or tokens maybe.

[John R.]

Found these in the Teralingua Texas area(big bend) thinking they could be trading tokens for the chizos mining in the area? they read as pennies any help?

 

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[gerryk]

Sorry cant help. When i viewed them on my ipad it turned the pictures. I wonder if thatbis normal? I dont recall my ipad doingntha before.

 

[John R.]

It's probably because my dad took the pictures on an iPhone sideways i'll retake them portrait instead of landscape and re-post them.

 

[Frankyg]

They look a bit small to be trading tokens. It's odd that they all seem to be clipped in the same area.

 

[John R.]

I was noticing that too. I had read somewhere else on this site that native Americans would damage coins due to superscription and i was wondering if that could explain that. Also all together they weigh less than a gram so i almost think there not coinage with that little material but i could be wrong i'm no expert.

 

[gerryk]

Some old tokens were used for admission to different events. When you entered you handed your coin over and it was punched and given back. Punching the coinds could be anything from cutting part of it off to cutting a triangle or punching a circle out as if using a paper punch.

 

[John R.]

Here is a pictures from a real camera.

 

[John R.]

Thanks i'm going keep looking and hopefully next time i go out there i can find more with better faces so it can be seen clearer.

 

[Frankyg]

I've magnified the photo a bit. They look a bit too fancy to be tokens and the one looks like a hammered coin. I don't think it's English, perhaps Spanish. Is it silver?

 

[John R.]

No i think its bronze or something similar maybe it reads nickel on the MD.

 

[BuckleBoy]

We need close ups with a real camera and a macro setting in natural light of Both Sides of each of these coins to help you with the ID.

 

[Lizard King]

Looks like cutouts from electrical boxes.