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R. MacHenry, Virginia City, Nevada Trade Token

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Tokens Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
R. MacHenry, Virginia City, Nevada Trade Token
SOLD
425.00USDto r*******0+ buyer's premium (106.25)
This item SOLD at 2026 Nov 06 @ 11:47UTC-08 : PST/AKDT
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c.1913-1915. Robert MacHenry (b. 1871) came to the US from Scotland in 1901. He died at 65 in 1936 in Silver City, suffering a heart attack while working at the Dayton Mill there. He was a baker in both Virginia City and Reno, and later worked for numerous mills, including the Merrimac Mill in 1918. Fred Holabird wrote him up in Coins of the Comstock, where he noted that MacHenry bought the pioneer City Bakery in Virginia City from SJ Grondona in February 1913. MacHenry is not listed in the 1914 Polk (clearly an oversight), but is listed in the 1915 Nevada directory. He was gone by the time of the 1920 census and is not listed in the Dun Business Directory of 1920. The City Bakery at 27 N. C Street was operated by Fitzmier & Armbrust in the 1890s (Fitzmier died in 1899). In 1900, it was owned by EV Bonafous. The building was damaged badly by a fire in Sept. 1902. In the 1907-08 Polk, Kelly & Lindsay are listed as the proprietors. The business was listed for sale in January 1912, at which point MacHenry would have come in. Pop in 1990: 3.

Obverse: R. MacHenry/ Baker/ Virginia City.
Reverse: GF 1 Loaf of Bread
Shape/Metal: triangular, al
Town: Virginia City, Nevada