Coin and Paper Money Collecting/Chief Oshkosh Beer Token

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Question
I found a token inside my house, while remodeling.  The house was built in the early 50's.  Can not find this coin or what it is worth any where.  Please help me out.
Aluminum coin: One side says"  You always win with Chief Oshkosh Beer B'Gosh It's Good.  Other side  just says "You Pay" with an imprint of a spinner arrow.

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Tami, sounds like you have what is called a spinner token.  Different merchants made these and this would have been made by a beer company.  You may want to try going to www.ebay.com and doing some searches for words on your piece and maybe spinner tokens and things similar to see if anything like what you have is for sale.  Also you may want to go to www.google.com to do a search on this company, "Chief Oshkosh Beer" to find out about it.  Hope this helped, Jim Lawniczak

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Jim Lawniczak

Expertise

I will answer your questions about encased coins (lucky pennies), which are advertising and event tokens with coins, unually cents, struck with the token.

Experience

Long time collector of encased coins and author of several articles on encased coins.

Organizations
TAMS, ECI (Encased Collectors International)

Publications
TAMS -- several articles on encased coins, in particular the encased coins of the 1901 Buffalo Pan American Exposition
Casement -- many articles on encased coins

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