Hi, anyone have information about these Tokens ??

Hi, picked up a bunch of old coins @ a garage sale and found these 2 tokens in the box .. anyone know anything about these? I hope it's ok to post these here.

One is Australian and reads:

E.WAY & COMPANY , DRAPERS , PITT ST , SYDNEY on one side ..

KINDLY DROP US A CARD OR INSPECT OUR COUNTERS FOR WHAT YOU REQUIRE. on the other side

The other token is from the UK, and reads:

BRITISH COPPER COMPANY , SMELTING WORKS AT LANDORE on one side ..

The other side has ROLLING MILLS AT WALTHAMSOWE around the edge , with a LION and ONE PENNY in the centre.

I'll try to upload some images.

Cheers, Michael

 

Pitt Street token





UK token

 

I just realised looking at the image of the UK token that you can see an outline of a date .. looks like 1812. :/

 

Nice!! Bronze or copper?

 

Recent ebay sale
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/E-Way-am...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

Thanks, I like them Golden ChipMonk.

The UK token is a very dark colour in real life , but got washed out by the flash on the camera .. being from a copper company, I would assume copper.

The Pitt St token is the colour in the image (no real wash out from the flash). I only very new to all of this , may be bronze ??

 

Thanks for the link Bull_Bear.

LOL .. looks like a cheapie, but wasn't expecting much of a value on it.

Still like it, being a part of Australian / Sydney history and all.

 

Hope someone can shed some light on the UK 1 penny token.

 

It's from the third period of issue of English tokens (the first was in the late 1600's, the next in the 1790's). They were issued because of a lack of small change and were probably given to employees in their pay packets and circulated in the local area.

I can see a few on eBay right now in similar condition to yours for a few dollars each.