The token was struck on a 1902 cent using an obverse die cut for an Acorn, VA merchant and a mismatched “stock” reverse die. These dies and many others from S. H. Quint’s Sons Company of Philadelphia, were sold in the 1960s. The company’s representative ran a couple of ads in the TAMS Journal offering them for sale, and I bought quite a few from him just to get them off the market. The person who struck this also created “rarities” using other VA dies. I’m pretty sure it was a dealer who used to set up at a lot of Maryland shows, but I don’t have proof. He sold them at his table, in the $15 range as I recall. Fortunately for collectors, he didn’t have matched obverse and reverse dies. He also utilized a die cut for W. E. Jones, Limeton, VA to make tokens.

One of the pieces I recall was a concoction using the Jones / Limeton die over struck on a 1902 V nickel. I have also seen similar "tokens" made from a lower denomination obverse die made for W. A. Powell from Boykins. Some years ago I managed to snag one of the Powell dies, in part to get it out of circulation much like Dave did. I have sadly seen a few of these fantasies fetch what I would call absurd prices.

Here are several pictures of note. First are of the real deal - an aluminum Kremlin Packing Co. token good for one bucket. It's in rough shape as it has been dug, but this is the token as issued by the cannery.

I also collected some images of a few other examples of those modern fantasy tokens from old eBay listings. The first one is one using the obverse die intended for W. A. Powell & Co. tokens and overstruck on a cent of some kind, though the strike was strong enough to obliterate most of the undertype. The obverse die for the 50 is in my collection.

The second piece is one I saw many years ago using a W. E. Jones Limeton obverse die. It's double struck on a 1902 V nickel matched up with a "RECEIPT FOR 5 IN LABOR" die.

Another Limeton piece de caprice using the same reverse die as employed on the W. A. Powell fantasy I picture here is illustrated on Richard Greever's Token Catalog site. Modern day token chicanery!