Somebody here should know this.

[SCDigginWithAK]

It's a token that been cut in half. One side says Rhode Island with a sailboat mast on it then the other side says Pennsylvania with the state and liberty bell on it. It has a reeded edge. What is this and why was it cut??

 

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[WilliamBoyd]

They are two separate generic state tokens.

Here's an example of your Pennsylvania token:
Pennsylvania, Liberty Bell Token

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

They are two separate generic state tokens. Here's an example of your Pennsylvania token: Pennsylvania, Liberty Bell Token

But it's one token. I don't get it?

 

[nhbenz]

Transportation token? From one place to the other?
I note that the wording on the one William posted isn't the same as yours.

 

[Doubter in MD]

It might help to post the other half of each side of the token so we get a complete picture.

 

[doublet2a]

I think he means that is both sides of 1 token in the pics.

Tim

 

[Doubter in MD]

I think he means that is both sides of 1 token in the pics.

Tim

I am not fully awake but I assumed the OP had both halves of the token. In hindsight I doubt it. Never mind.

 

[462]

Maybe it was a miss-struck token, that was cut in half to easily identify it as scrap so it wouldn't be shipped to the customer.

 

[cudamark]

Naw....lawn mower got it!

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

It is only ONE piece lol i wish i had both im going back to see if i can find the other half of it.The pics are the back and front. Is cut perfectly so i dont think a lawn mower got it. Any ideas now? Or at least age?

 

[Fast_Dave]

Ok, here's a couple of pics of the same kind of coins that I pulled off Ebay. They all depict a different state on each side of the coin. From the Washington state coin, I'd say these date after 1962 when the Space Needle was constructed. They also bear a resemblance in wording to the old Shell tokens although on these the States Of The Union is on the bottom rather than on the top