Token but for where?

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nice tokens :)

i only found 1 reference to it, and i didnt get much info from it.
all i found was that when all dairies had to pastuerize their milk, the Supremacy Dairy had to merge with the Mayowood Farms Dairy, which is in Rochester, Minnesota
 

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Atwood's Catalog of transportation tokens shows the Madison token as #410E. It says the system operated 1916-39 and that streetcars were abandoned in 1935. The implication is that the 2½¢ fare was in effect 1916-35.

Reiter's Dairy Token catalog shows the Supremacy Dairy as being from Rochester, MN, but indicates the attribution was from an ATCO (a now-defunct token collector group) mail bid sale of September, 1995. That may very well be a good attribution, but it is always dangerous to rely on just a seller's statement with no directory or other reference. The upcoming MN token book should have more information on this piece.

John in ID
 

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