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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 49, December 9, 2018, Article 8

IDAHO TRADE TOKEN NEWSLETTER ON NEWMAN PORTAL

The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is the Idaho Trade Token Newsletter. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report. Thanks. -Editor

Idaho Trade Token Newsletter v1n1 cover Recently added to the Newman Portal is John Mutch’s Idaho Trade Token Newsletter for the period 1997-1999. Token collectors frequently collect by state, and these pieces offer a historical connection between the collector and the businesses of bygone days. The first issue discusses accounting records of the Midway Bar (Boise) in 1911 – quite profitable, especially during the winter months. Also included is a note from the 1910 Wardner News noting the county crackdown on dance halls and their “gambling, dancing & kindred vices.” Mutch notes related 10-cent tokens from these mining town establishments. The exhaustive reference site, tokencatalog.com, identifies one such piece, from the J. Farrin & Co. dance hall in Wardner.

Thanks to John Mutch for granting permission and loaning physical copies for scanning.

J. Farrin 10 cent token obverse J. Farrin 10 cent token reverse

Images: J. Farrin & Co. 10-cent check, courtesy of Steve Hayden on tokencatalog.com

Link to Idaho Trade Token Newsletter on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/529431

Link to J. Farrin & Co. token on tokencatalog.com:
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=366157&inventory_id=351887
&td_image_id=196850&attribution_id=374739&record_offset=1



Wayne Homren, Editor

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