Small, old, coin. Help PBK

[RKinOI]

Dug this little coin at a teardown site in Southport NC. It's smaller than a dime and from what I can see it has a three and a small s in the center. Around the top side says, HAL_DRACM? and H>T> at the bottom. The obverse is the same but the s beside the 3 is smaller and higher up. Can't find a date.

 

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[PBK]

It's a half drachm apothecary weight, one of a set of various sizes made for the old balance-type scales used by pharmacists.

"H. T." is Henry Troemner of Philadelphia, PA, long a major manufacturer of such weights.

Apothecary weights are difficult to date since the same designs remained in use from about the mid 19th to mid 20th century, when electronic scales began to replace balances.

You can see a few more examples at:

http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/weights/index.html

Also, here's a page with apothecary weights & symbols, just in case that might be of interest:

http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/sunbeam/chap45.html

 

[RKinOI]

Thanks, You are the man

 

[Groovedymond]

Wow PBK... you are incredible! You are either a god.... are you ARE the Internet to which we all connect!

Amazing find!
Amazing research!

 

[gold fish]

PBK, who are you ?? I mean really, man, that's a little creepy..........

Cool find RKin.