Token Find

[jason4kstate]

I went to an auction and spent around $160 on 10 oz of sterling jewelry, a Lalique statue, and about 5 pounds of costume jewelry. I found this token in the costume jewelry pile. I can't seem to find much of anything on it besides the fact that it is from St. Andrew's IN. Any idea on value/rarity? This is my first bar token.

 

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[GibH]

This site says Saint Anthony, IN, not St. Andrew's:
TONY STERNBERG / GOOD FOR / 5C / AT BAR (TC-299425) Saint Anthony, Indiana, U.S.A.

 

[idahotokens]

There are two maverick tokens listed in Wagaman's IN Trade Tokens book, the one you have and one that has initials JS in place of a name. Wagaman's notes are that JS is John Sternberg - saloon - 1909 and that the Tony Sternberg one is saloon - 1912-18. Wagaman lists the former at rarity 7 and the latter rarity 6 on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being unique.

A look at the 1910 Census shows John as the father saloon proprietor with John (at age 22) as his son with no occupation shown. Here's a clipping from the Jasper (IN) Weekly Courier of 11 Jan 1901.

John in the Great 208

 

[Trezurehunter]

I have no info, but I really like saloon tokens.