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Panther Coal Company

CAN YOU READ THIS?

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That's the small print on a dollar piece from Panther Coal Company, Panther, West Virginia.

 

Whatever they collect, many scrip collectors  have a Panther dollar piece. They are beautiful and, with a rarity rating of R-4, affordable. This one is Panther 2173, B100a.

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Can you read the small print? Billy Campbell told me what it said and referred me to Stuart E. Brown's excellent (but out-of-print) book, Scrip: Trade Tokens Issued by United States Coal Mining Companies and Company Stores. The answer is on page 218:

THE GREENDUCK CO. CHICAGO

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