(Wolf Point, Montana) W. V. D. CHAPMAN $1.00 Ingle Token SYSTEM-Unlisted Variety

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Good Condition.

Unlisted Variety: This token is listed in the Montana Token Book, but only in copper and this copy is nickel Plated Brass.

W. V. D. Chapman was a General Store Proprietor in Wolf Point back in the teens. See his Business Directory listings in the 1914 Montana Bradstreet and the 1916 MN-DAKS-MT Polk Gazetteer.
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This is also an Ingle System Token - The Ingle system provided cash registers, tokens and a patented system to reduce the work of maintaining the book keeping ledgers that most shop keepers of the day used. If patrons wanted to have an account, the shop keeper could advance any amount in Ingle tokens to them ...say $10.00... and then the patrons could spend the tokens a few cents at a time at will. The shop keeper in turn would keep records only as payments were made on the $10.00 loan and not for each time the patron spent a few pennies.