5 Cents - Amherst Coal Company (Amherstdale, West Virginia) ND

Reverse

Cutout center, denomination above, lettering around and on bottom half

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AMHERST COAL COMPANY
PAYABLE IN CASH ON PAY-DAYS
WHEN DUE
TO
EMPLOYEE
TO WHOM ISSUED
AMHERSTDALE, W. VA.

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Plain

Comment

Amherst Coal Company was founded in Amherstdale, West Virginia in 1912 and was sold in 1981 to Diamond Shamrock Corporation. Scrip – Coal Company Tokens; There was a time when there were more than 20,000 company stores using scrip in pace of, or in addition to, cash wages in North America.(*1) It has been estimated that around 75% of all the scrip that was used was used by coal companies in Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia.