Coal Mining Tokens – Americana, Appalachia

$4.00 – $25.00

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Description

In the United States, coal mining areas were often operated by a single, relatively cash-poor company (usually in some remote area of Appalachia).

A coal scrip token is basically ‘a pay token’ with a stated value issued to workers, often as an advance on wages, (a big benefit to many) as Coal towns thrived with the influx of Europeans and immigrants from all over to these areas in Appalachia.

Tokens were made in different….

DENOMINATIONS; 1¢ to 50¢ plus $1 or more

SHAPES; round, square, triangle and with different cancellation chops or without chops.

METALS & FIBER: brass, copper, nickel, WW2 Fiber & zinc.

These were in common use from the early 1900’s until the late 1960’s, although federally outlawed on several occasions, some organizations managed to work around those prohibitions.

Country music great Merle Travis (album… Folk Songs of the Hills / sung by … Tennessee Ernie Ford) in the song ’16 Tons’ sings about these very tokens.

Additional information

Complete Line

Alabama – Black Diamond Coal Mining Company Birmingham $0.10, Alabama – Black Diamond Coal Mining Company Birmingham $0.25, Alabama – Black Diamond Coal Mining Company Birmingham $0.50, Kentucky – Jellico Coal Mining Co. Mountain Ash $0.05, Kentucky – Jellico Coal Mining Co. Mountain Ash $0.10, Kentucky – South East Coal Company Seco $0.10, Tennessee – Black Diamond Coal Mining Company Marion $0.10, Tennessee – Black Diamond Coal Mining Company Marion $0.50, Tennessee – Black Diamond Coal Mining Company Whitwell $0.25, Tennessee – Indian Creek Coal Co. Indian Creek $0.01, Tennessee – Petros Mercantile Petros $0.05, Virginia – Blue Diamond Coal Co. Bonny Blue $0.01, Virginia – Jewell Ridge Coal Corp Jewell Ridge $0.25, Virginia – Jewell Ridge Coal Corp Jewell Ridge $1.00, West Virginia – Boone Supply Company Prenter $0.25, West Virginia – Boone Supply Company Prenter $0.50, West Virginia – Boone Supply Company Prenter $1.00, West Virginia – Cannelton Coal & Coke Co Cannelton $0.01, West Virginia – Gulf Smokeless Coal Co. Tams $0.01, West Virginia – Leccony Smokeless Fuel Co. Besoco $0.01, West Virginia – Princess Dorothy Coal Co. Eunice $1.00, West Virginia – Raleigh-Wyoming Mining Co Glen Rogers $1.00, West Virginia – Raleigh-Wyoming Mining Co Glen Rogers $1.00, West Virginia – The Carbon Fuel Co Carbon $1.00, West Virginia – The New River Company Stanaford $0.25, West Virginia – The New River Company Stanaford $0.50, West Virginia – The New River Company Stanaford $1.00, West Virginia – Winding Gulf Coals Inc Winding Gulf $0.10, West Virginia – Winding Gulf Coals Inc Winding Gulf $0.50, West Virginia – Winding Gulf Coals Inc Winding Gulf $1.00, West Virginia – Winding Gulf Coals Inc Winding Gulf $1.00

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