John E. Sloat’s ‘Dirt Man’ Tokens
Editor’s Note: For nearly 70 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.
Transportation tokens are an area of exonumia that often requires the collector to engage in additional, enjoyable research. For his September 1963 “The Bus Stop” column in magazine, John M. Coffee, Jr. (co-author of ) highlighted the necessity to do some digging to learn the true purpose of a given token and where it
