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Kettle Island, Kentucky, rare tokens

Started by Alex Island, November 08, 2020, 07:29:57 PM

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Rare tokens, Kettle Island in Kentucky

I don't know how correctly I indicated this island on the map. Different versions are reported about this island:

Kettle Island is an unincorporated community and coal town in Bell County, Kentucky, United States. Kettle Island is located on Kentucky Route 1630 near Kentucky Route 221, 5.35 miles (8.61 km) east-northeast of Pineville. Kettle Island has a post office with ZIP code 40958, which opened on March 15, 1912. The community also had a station on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

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There are two possible explanations for the community's name. The first is that early settlers did laundry in a common kettle on an island in Straight Creek. The second is that hunters used an iron kettle on the same island as a landmark. In 1930, an explosion at the Pioneer Mine in Kettle Island killed 16 miners.
I don't know if there are catalogs where the tokens of this island are described. I managed to find denominations of 1, 5, 10 and 25 cents:

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Kentucky is a landlocked state with no access to the sea or lakes. And this island turned out to be not so simple. There is one more, and maybe even two series of tokens. Here is one of them:
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I became interested and looked at what could be found at auctions in the archives. And I discovered other denominations: 5, 10, and 100:
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I didn't expect to see such a large denomination at the auction, given that tokens of no more than 25 cents are known, but here it's just 5 dollars:
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