Lot 78: A Collection of UK and US Trade Co-operative and Transportation Tokens

An assortment of private and municipal trade tokens from the United Kingdom and United States produced in aluminium, copper alloy, and lead alloy. The collection includes British co-operative society pieces such as an octagonal copper alloy token from the Frome Co-op Society Ltd for a half quartern loaf and a triangular lead alloy pint milk token from the Rochester Ind. and Prov. Co-op Soc. Ltd. Other British trade tokens comprise an aluminium 4d grocer token from L.J. Bird and a copper alloy token from Ardill Leeds featuring the numeral 1 within a wreath. American exonumia includes an aluminium State of Washington Tax Commission sales tax token with a central hole, an octagonal 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration commemorative token depicting the Halve Maene, and two transportation tokens inscribed Good For One Fare, one with a C shaped cutout and the other featuring a central slot with a bus design. The group also contains several heavily patinated and worn round tokens.