Fort Branch 1049 (Logan)
Flynn-Haislip Coal Company
B25
Collection
Company Scrip + Tokens
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Kenny King
Mintage
Manufacture Method
Struck
Notes
unknown mint
Coin Details
Obverse
Transcription
FLYNN-HAISLIP / (star) / COAL / CO.
Reverse
Transcription
GOOD FOR / * 25 * / - IN - / MERCHANDISE
Currency
Coal Company Scrip
Denomination
25 cents
Dimensions
Diameter
28 mm
Location
Location
* Untyped Location
Exhibition, encased
Category
Exhibit
Valuations
Valuation Type
NSCA Scrip Rarity Scale
Formal Appraisal
R-10
Provenance
Provenance Detail
Archaeological Find
Notes
Found in Adkins Fork. Kenny traded the man who worked for the land company, Jack Kelly, there a piece of similar scrip for a rare uncirculated penny with a misprint.
There was a house on the left hand fork across from the guard shack at camp branch mining. The house at the head of that fork. St. Joseph's Vaseline bottle found at same site.
Exhibition
Life in the Coal Camps
Interpretative Labels
Label Type
Cultural/Historical Context
Label
Company Scrip
In most coal operations, miners were not paid in US dollars, but rather in
company money, called scrip. Usually scrip was only redeemable at the
company store, preventing miners from spending money outside the company
town. Although illegal in the state of West Virginia, most coal companies
continued to use scrip to pay their miners until the 1950s.
collection of Kenneth King
