Date unknown, brass or copper or bronze token, need help identifying

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My brother sent me this image of three tokens he inherited from his mother-in-law. We are both longtime coin "accumulators" but not experts. He described it as thus:

One side is blank, the other has a 4 inside the outline of a 5 pointed star. Slightly bigger than a Lincoln cent. All three are blank on one side. The rim is smooth as in no ridge like on a US coin. (mother-in-law).had no idea where she got them. Thickness is 1.70 mm, midway between the thickness of a cent and a nickel.

Location is USA

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Welcome

??, I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at with 4 different objects in one image
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#3 Unread post by thairunts »

Think you just show the penny for size sake? Never seen this sort of token before. Good luck!

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#4 Unread post by SeatedDollar »

Sorry folks. I guess my first post is already violating the rules. Oops.

Paul, did not mean to confuse you. You are looking at (clockwise from upper left) obverse of a Lincoln cent for size comparison; obverse of the token I'm trying to identify; another obverse of the token; reverse (blank) of the tokken. Does that help? Would you prefer I post just the obverse and the reverse of the token in question? If that is the rule I am happy to abide by it.

Yes the Lincoln cent is merely there for size comparison. To quote my brother, "Slightly bigger than a Lincoln cent". I think you would agree.

TIA!

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Thanks for the explanation…

Can you post a clear image, or maybe several images of the reverse please?
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My pleasure. I'm not sure how much there is to see, I mean it is really blank (no raised rim or die collar or anything of that sort either). Just smooth with considerable scratch marks.

I'm afraid I only have the one image my brother sent me, however I cropped the above multi-coin image to be just what you requested.

I'm pretty sure it's worthless some kind of game token or some silly thing but I figured I would ask!
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Possible game token…??
I do see a very minor rim gutter on this reverse image....
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#8 Unread post by Earle42 »

I do not know where they are, but I know form another forum that there is at least one very good token website out there. I have seen them not be able to ID every token, but the guys over at coincommunity.com are pretty good at identifying them with some dedictaed collectors on that site.
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Thanks Earl42! I did try them. Mostly guesses but nothing definite. https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/top ... _ID=404594

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#10 Unread post by Earle42 »

I expected some guessing but was hoping someone would be able to better ID it. That forum (~108K people!) is normally one that is good at the obscure. But some things just are too obscure. Hopefully yours won't end up being that way. However, I think it might be member Sap who has pointed others to the token websites when he sees something he thinks might be there.
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