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Saint Michaels,AZ - Joe Kuhn Tokens :

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Medals & Tokens Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Saint Michaels,AZ - Joe Kuhn Tokens :
Four tokens: obverse: Joe Kuhn / Indian / Trader / St. Michaels, Ariz.; reverse: Good For / 10c,25c,50c,$1.00 / In Merchandise. Al, 23,27,30,33mm, R5-7. Very good through fine condition. The town is located south of Fort Defiance, where the Navajo Indian Reservation Agency is. It was also the headquarters of the Indian School and Mission run by the Franciscan Brothers. Before the Mission was founded the "place was known as 'Cienega Amarilla,' 'yellow swamp,' or 'meadow'" [Barnes, 1988, 376]. The area is "covered with" salt grass which when mature in the fall, turns yellow. Barnes says "the director of the Indian Missions bought this place [in] 1896, he renamed it St. Michaels" [Barnes, 1988, 376].