Token US Ames Furniture Federal Savings 1920 to 1960

This, apparently, is a merchant token, although we have been unable to place 'Ames Furniture Federal Savings.' And, sure enough, it looks like an old-fashioned ice box on both sides. Judging from the composition and style, it comes from the early to mid-1900s.

Tokens like this are collected by a small but energetic subset of coin collectors, and this is what makes them valuable. However, with only a small subset collecting, values are not high:

worn: $1 US dollar approximate catalog value
average circulated: $3
well preserved: $5
fully uncirculated: $12

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Thomas Ruffing has written to us, pointing out that the object on these tokens is likely a parking booth, and that a similar design can be seen on other parking tokens. He writes: I have come to the conclusion that they are parking tokens, the object on the coin is exactly the same as other parking tokens and is on various other ones. I have not found where it was, but I believe this was for a shared parking lot of a Federal Savings, and an AMES Furniture.
Thanks for the info, Tom. We appreciate it!
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Coin: 16750, Genre: Tokens, Timeline: World
Created (yyyymm): 201402, Last review: 201602
Appearance: Normal round coin Metallic brown Letters: Latin
Years: sort: 1920, filter: 1920 to 1960
Image: token_ames_furniture.jpg
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