Pageton, WV Page Coal & Coke Co. 1 Exploder Coal "Scrip" - Very Fine or Better KM.132 These struck 10 oz bars

These struck 10 oz bars usually carry a premium of at least $2

Withrow/Summers signatures

and the reverse shows a detail from the new Black Patriots Memorial

Earrings marked Jomaz

1 mm Composition Silver Fineness 0

Pageton, WV Page Coal & Coke Co. 1 Exploder Coal "Scrip" - Very Fine or Better KM.132 These struck 10 oz barsObverse: PAGE COAL & COKE CO. 1 EXPLODER PAGETON, WV (Cutout E) Reverse: Blank Explosive control tokens have long been collected along with coal mine company store scrip. However, they are not actually scrip. They were issued for a specific purpose and could not be used to purchase general merchandise at coal mine company stores. Rather, they played an important and practical role in the issuance of explosives. The system was very simple. When a miner