Oddball token find.

[DiamondDan]

Hit this one today while swinging in an extremely difficult and trashy park. I'm really surprised no one else had found this. It was fairly deep, but it sounded like a copper penny. Was about 7 inches. I thought it was gonna be a wheatie. "Vanak corp" it says, with pat pending in the middle on one side. Sorta looked around for some info online. Common consensus is that it's a gaming token of some sort. Mid 30's vintage, evidently. Pretty cool! Thanks for looking.

Dan

Edit: After reading patent information graciously provided by Mackaydon, I have learned that this is actually a "slug" to test coin operated machines. It is of a slightly different size than what would be be required by the machine, and therefore would be used to test the accuracy of the accept/reject functionality.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[A2coins]

Thats a cool find I like tokens only have a few but happy if I find them good job

 

[Squirrel322]

Thats a really unusual token! Very cool!

 

[Mackaydon]

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces176516.html
and this:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2133250A/en
Don.......

 

[DiamondDan]

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces176516.html
and this:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2133250A/en
Don.......

Very interesting. Thanks!

 

[ecmo]

That's an unusual find, don't remember seeing one of those on the forums. Congratulations on a neat piece.

 

[ajaj]

Great unusual find! Better than 99% of the Wheaties out there.

aj

 

[Trezurehunter]

Interesting piece. I like it. Better than finding clad coins.

 

[RVRoamer74]

Didn't know those even existed. That's a really nice find. I learnt something new. Thanks for posting and Congrats!