What do you think??

[Steve Holmes]

Pappy,
My name is Steve Holmes and I'm new to this forum. Great Place! I've got something I haven't been able to identify and hopefully you'll be able to help. I found this at an old mining site, where they mined in the late 1890's-early 1900's. It looks like a medallion of some sort, but I would kind of like to narrow down the date of it, and exactly what it could possibly be. Any help would be appreciated...Thanks
Steve

[Steve Holmes]

Pappy,
Here's the under side of the piece from above. Dominick Maguire was the mine's promoter, and he led many expeditions throughout Arizona in the 1870's...

[PAPPY]

STEVE, I'll research this and let you know what I find out...PAPPY

[Toadie]

The mines used to have company stores and issued script to the miners when they were short on cash.. Kinda like a payday advance but only spendable at the company owned stores, to be paid back when the miners were able to make draws. The mine stores minted their own and they were tokens made out of almost any metal and that may be what you have there. My father said when he was driving a truck through WV back in the late '40's that script was still being used and alot of people kept them strung on a string. Reckon it could possibly be that??

[PAPPY]

Might want to check out the following:

http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/B00118/

Dominick among other things was an Archaeologist.....PAPPY