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Red Metal Saloon, Wabuska, Nevada Trade Token

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Tokens Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD
Red Metal Saloon, Wabuska, Nevada Trade Token
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2,400.00USDto a******e+ buyer's premium (600.00)
This item SOLD at 2026 Nov 06 @ 11:54UTC-08 : PST/AKDT
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The only reference found for Mr. Pappas is in 1918-1919. By 1914 there were three saloons in Wabuska, one by Mr. Feeny and the other two owned by Dewitt Beach and Robert McKenzine. The latter pair had a partnership in a single saloon prior to 1912, but split the partnership up, each ending up with his own saloon, names not known. One of them may have sold to Pappas. Beach was quite the saloon and mining man. He had mining interests all around Yerington, and had opened a saloon in Granite in 1913, but also worked at Rand, Schurz, etc. In 1915, Beach got caught on the Schurz Reservation with whiskey. This tiny token may be from the late period, c 1916-1917. Pop in 1990: 1, thought to be unique. More research needed. The "red metal" means copper, typical of the Yerington-Wabuska area, which also hosted the Nevada Copperbelt railroad servicing the copper mines.

Obverse: Red Metal/ Saloon/ A. Pappas/ Prop/ Wabuska, Nevada
Reverse: gf 10c it
Shape/Metal: oct, al
Town: Wabuska, Nevada