Mining Tokens
notes: label: Description
content: Scrip is a substitute for legal tender that was often used in coal towns as a substitute for monetary wages or credit against the miner’s next paycheck. Scrip could only be spent in company stores for goods (sold at a a high markup in isolated towns with weak labor unions) and was part of a corporate paternal system of employee benefits that helped management control workers and made labor organization difficult. The Liberty Trading Company of Madera, Pennsylvania issued this scrip for use in their stores. The company produced several different token in $10.00, $5.00, $1.00, .50¢, .25¢, .10¢, and .05¢ denominations.
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0043.553
label: accession number
content: 2010.0043
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0043.553
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tokens, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: $ 10.00 token: 2 in x 2 in; 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: $ 5.00 token: 1 13/16 in x 1 13/16 in; 4.572 cm x 4.572 cm
label: Measurements
content: $ 1.00 token: 1 11/16 in x 1 11/16 in; 4.318 cm x 4.318 cm
label: Measurements
content: $ .50 token: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: $ .25 token: 1 5/16 in x 1 5/16 in; 3.302 cm x 3.302 cm
label: Measurements
content: $ .10 token: 1 3/16 in x 1 3/16 in; 3.048 cm x 3.048 cm
label: Measurements
content: $ .05 token: 1 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.794 cm x 2.794 cm