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Rare Gold Nugget Souvenir Token - AK

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Tokens Start Price:1,250.00 USD Estimated At:2,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD
Rare Gold Nugget Souvenir Token -  AK
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Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
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Reno, NV 89511
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c1900 A rare gold nugget souvenir token from the Wm. Haferkorn cigar store in Everett, Washington. This token was likely made to promote Hafferkorn's cigar store at the AYPE (Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition) in 1909. Made in the shape of a gold pan with a gold nugget at center, it was good for $1. We have sold two of these rare tokens over the past three decades. This specimen is from the John J. Ford Collection, lot 22962, Ford XXIII, formerly of the F.C.C. Boyd estate. It is certainly one of the finest known. Everett is a terminus city, located 25 miles north of Seattle, at the mouth of the Snohomish River on Possession Sound. It is where steamships were made for the Alaska/Yukon gold rush, and where many ships left for the goldfields. Hafferkorn's cigar store was located on the busiest corner, Colby & Hewitt. On labor day in 1911, Haferkorn issued a paper token "to every man in the Labor Day Parade will receive a card ... (for)... one 12 1/2 cent El Soudan cigar", according to the Everett Labor Journal. - HKA#65734