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#50 - Aluminum Merchant – ALASKA TRADERS – GOOD FOR $1.00 Trade Token, Platinum, Alaska.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Tokens Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 150.00 USD
#50 - Aluminum Merchant – ALASKA TRADERS – GOOD FOR $1.00 Trade Token, Platinum, Alaska.
Auction Information

“HORSESHOE COINS & ANTIQUES AUCTION"

Horseshoe Coins & Antiques, LLC

Location: Horseshoe Bldg., Blaine, Washington

Also, won’t be able to invoice and pack till after this weekend, into next week!

Please be patient, must be away from computer till Tuesday next week.

Good luck on any bids and have fun!


Historic and nice looking Mining Town trade token from Alaska, and a Platinum Mining Town to boot.

Struck in aluminum 39mm in diameter the size of a US Silver Dollar. Shows minor usage and wear.

The obverse reads: ALASKA / TRADERS / PLATINUM / ALASKA
The reverse reads: GOOD FOR / $1.00 / IN TRADE

Have multiples.

Some history:
Peter Wold had a General Store here, from 1933 to 1939. There was Platinum mining going on in this area in the 30s and apparently was the only source of Platinum in the West for some time.

Platinum was named in the 1930s due to the platinum ore found in the area. The site was a mining boomtown by 1937 boasting a roadhouse, two trading posts and a population of fifty. A post office had been established in 1935. An earlier Eskimo village called Agvik had been abandoned. The town was incorporated as a city in 1975.

During World War II, the Alaska Territorial Guard served to safeguard it against Japanese attack as it was the only source of the strategic metal platinum in the Western Hemisphere.

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