Rickey Henderson Forum

Looking for info on the below coin.

I don't have any specific information, but I can make a few observations.  It is a pretty basic token.  The dies were sunk using all standard letters and symbols (no custom punches required).  Any number of private mints could have produced it, but I don't see any specific mint marks that would indicate its origin, so it was probably not Hoffman & Hoffman or Osborne Coinage or anyone like that.  Higher resolution pics might help in that regard.  What size is it, about the size of a quarter, or larger? Are the edges smooth, or do they have reeding or other texture?

Oh, and what does Feisel have to do with it?  If it is listed in the Feisel catalog, maybe it was a commemorative parking token.

-Tom

Some info is here:

http://www.rickeyhendersoncollectibles.com/2008/09/rickey-henderson-collectible-coins.html

And also found this bit about Feisel, which may be relevant:

https://books.google.com/books?id=bcseDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT286&lpg=PT286&dq=D.+H.+FEISEL&source=bl&ots=4bt0ZvqmFo&sig=ACfU3U3BemN9GuhEML9ZIo7EDMkPf1Mgng&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPrtHNsOfpAhXjc98KHW7AD7UQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=D.%20H.%20FEISEL&f=false

Doug, your first link is to the OP's own Blog.

This one has better pictures, but no more information:

Chuck's Used Cards

Your second link refers to the person I think of when I hear "Feisel" in conjunction with tokens.  He was a big collector of many types of tokens and authored the best parking token catalog there is, but I doubt he had anything to do with producing the subject token.

-Tom

Not my blog, just a coincidence that I have the same handle on TCDb. Here's a picture of the coin with Henderson rookie card for size. I've had the coin since the early 90's. IIRC the person I purchased the coin from said it was given out at the stadium to commerate the breaking of the single season SB record, but I'm not sure of the date (or if that's accurate).

Sorry, the blog thing was a bad assumption on my part.

Can you explain where your reference to "Feisel" in the subject line came from?

Sounds like you have as much information as anyone about the coin's origins.

Since the token includes the year-end record total, I figured it would have been distributed the following year.  The 1983 pocket scedule lists thae various givaways at each game, but there's no "Rickey Henderson Coin Day" unfortunately.  It does list a Granny Goose Player Card Day and a Mother's Cookies Team Picture Day.  It is not on the 1982 pocket schedule either, because obviously that would have required them to predict the results before the season started.

I wonder if any sports reporters would have mentioned the giveaway in a newspaper report of the game at the time.  Or it may have been mentioned in an advertisement for the upcoming game.  You might try local Oakland librarys to see if any of them have made available scaned images of newspapers from that timeframe.

If the token had a mintmark on it, and the mint were still in business, they may be able to locate records of when it was struck and who ordered it.  Unfortunately, the shrinking use of tokens over the last thirty years has led to a lot of consolidation in the industry, and many of the mints that would have been in operation at the time are now long closed.

-Tom

Was going off the comments in the blog post:

The blog looks to be inactive, but I posted a comment asking for info on the coin.