✅ SOLVED Need help with a 5 cent piece

[Bill_S]

This is about the same size as a nickel but a lot thinner (worn maybe). It is the same on both sides. It will hit just below where a zinc penny would hit on a metal detector. It was pretty deep in the ground so I am assuming its old. Any ideas.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

It may be a token but my guess would be "play money".

 

[idahotokens]

This is a generic trade token that appears all over the country. My theory is that these were available to retailers, probably in sets from 5¢ to $1 or more, in lieu of custom-struck ones with the name of their business. They may have been offered along side business "necessities" like cash registers or a bookkeeping system like was done in the case of the Ingle System tokens from Dayton, OH. In any event, there was nothing keeping a customer from getting a token from one business and spending it in another. Perhaps a business happened to be in an isolated location and thought the risk of taking other businesses' tokens was slim. At any rate, there is slim chances of figuring out just which business used this type of token.
John in the Great 208