Just Bob

Finally getting around to adding some pics…
 

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The previous post was about Lorenzo Batson, who was the brother of this week's subject: Randolph Batson. 
In 1883, the two brothers built a store in Hillsdale, Mississippi, to serve the workers who were building the new roadbed for the Southern Railway. As they prospered, they began buying tracts of virgin timber. In 1893, the partnership was dissolved, and L.B moved to Millard (see previous post.) Randolph remained in Hillsdale and continued to purchase timberland, eventually owning 100,000 acres in Mississippi, and another 20,000 in Florida. In 1910, he established the Southern Lumber and Timber Company in Hillsdale, a token of which is shown in the very first post in this thread. That mill burned in 1922. In 1924, he joined with N.P. and W.H Hatten to purchase the sawmill of  the Ingram-Day Lumber Company, and with it, the sawmill town of Lyman, MS. At full capacity, the Batson & Hatten mill produced 200,000 board feet of yellow pine lumber per day, and employed 500 hands. (The town of Lyman still exists today. It is located just north of Gulfport, on Highway 49.)
"Ran" Batson was an influential figure in southern Mississippi, and was instrumental in replanting the forests after all of the virgin timber had been cut. At the time of his death, he owned 14,000 acres which had been replanted in pines, and stocked with deer and other wildlife, along with other pieces of property throughout south Mississippi.
The octagonal lumber company tokens are known in denominations of $.05, $.25, and $1; The round mercantile tokens are known in these denominations, plus a one cent token. No ten cent tokens are known for either.
 

History by Gil Hoffman:
On March 21, 1900, L. B. Batson and Henry T. McGehee bought the sawmill plant and timber holdings (amounting to 2,880 acres) of R. B. Haney at Millard, Pearl River County. This mill had been built in 1896 and was logged by oxen. For about a year Batson and McGehee operated the Haney mill as a co-partnership under the name Caledonia Lumber Company. The co-partnership was succeeded by the Batson-McGehee Company which was incorporated at Millard on September 19, 1901, by L. B. Batson, of Columbia; Henry T. McGehee, of Millard, and Nathaniel Batson, of Poplarville, with authorized capital stock of $30,000. A new circular sawmill with a cutting capacity of 50,000 feet per day was built at Millard to replace the old Haney mill. In later years this mill was changed to a band type. In the spring of 1902 a standard gauge logging railroad was constructed to log the mill. The mill finally shut down in early 1940.
Pictured below are two of the companies Shay locomotives, with their trademark side-cylinder engines.
Batson-McGehee No. 1 sat behind the commissary in Millard after the mill shut down, and was bought by Goodyear Yellow Pine in 1943. It is shown here in Millard about 1940.
Batson -McGehee No 2 is pictured at the manufacturing yard in Lima, Ohio
Tokens were issued in denominations of 5 cents through one dollar. All issues are listed as R9 (2 to 3 known.)

In 1937, Mssrs Breisch, Miller, and Sexton joined forces to form the City Ice and Coal Company in Greenville, MS. Their business was created to, among other things, "Manufacture, prepare, cut, gather, collect, harvest, store, preserve, pack, keep, buy, sell, import, and export, trade and deal in, at wholesale and retail, all kinds of ice, including dry ice..." (From the Charter of Incorporation, State of Mississippi.)
This coupon book is my latest acquisition. It was good for 500 lbs of ice, delivered to the customer's home.
The newspaper ad is from the January 16, 1955 edition of the Greenville Delta Leader.
 

Welcome to the forum. It is a shame to have to inform a new member that their very first post is of a coin that isn't what they thought it was, and even more of a shame to have to tell them that they have been ripped off, but that is the case here, I'm afraid. Your coin is not a mint error. As others have said, it was fabricated after it left the mint.

This forum is not your personal venue for hawking your coins. The marketplace forum is the place to sell coins. Please stop spamming this forum.
And, while I have your attention, intruding on other posters threads, trying to sell them coins for which they are not looking, is in poor taste.

This forum is not your personal venue for hawking your coins. The marketplace forum is the place to sell coins. Please stop spamming this forum.
And, while I have your attention, intruding on other posters threads, trying to sell them coins for which they are not looking, is in poor taste.

You can continue to play devil's advocate or "defender of the downtrodden" all you like, but, rest assured, the majority of the members of this forum strongly disapprove of this guy's tactics, especially since he's been repeatedly called out, and continues to do it. It isn't "harmless conduct." It's the forum equivalent of spam phone calls and junk mail, and we don't like it.

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You can continue to play devil's advocate or "defender of the downtrodden" all you like, but, rest assured, the majority of the members of this forum strongly disapprove of this guy's tactics, especially since he's been repeatedly called out, and continues to do it. It isn't "harmless conduct." It's the forum equivalent of spam phone calls and junk mail, and we don't like it.

This forum is not your personal venue for hawking your coins. The marketplace forum is the place to sell coins. Please stop spamming this forum.
And, while I have your attention, intruding on other posters threads, trying to sell them coins for which they are not looking, is in poor taste.

You can continue to play devil's advocate or "defender of the downtrodden" all you like, but, rest assured, the majority of the members of this forum strongly disapprove of this guy's tactics, especially since he's been repeatedly called out, and continues to do it. It isn't "harmless conduct." It's the forum equivalent of spam phone calls and junk mail, and we don't like it.

I have to admit, statements like this cause some concern. You may be an experienced numismatist, but I assume you are relatively new to the coin world. If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, why not post a picture, obverse and reverse, of one of your coins? That way members can look at it and try to determine if it actually is an error. The reason I say this is that if you're looking at coin pictures online, chances are they may not be pictures of genuine errors, depending on who posted the picture. There is probably as much or more false information on the internet as there is true, especially when it comes to error coins.
Edited to add. The picture of the capped die cent wasn't showing up when I posted the above reply. That definitely is a genuine error. My apologies to the OP. Still, you might want to post a picture of yours, just to be sure.

Welcome to the forum. 
If by “skinned” you mean the missing metal on the right front of Monticello, that is the result of zinc rot. Your coin has a zinc core that is plated with (mostly) copper. When the plating gets a nick or scratch, the zinc inside is exposed to the air, and starts to corrode. That often causes more of the plating to flake off, exposing even more of the core, and perpetuating the process. This is very common on damaged cents minted after  the composition was changed in 1982.

Welcome to the forum. 
If by “skinned” you mean the missing metal on the right front of Monticello, that is the result of zinc rot. Your coin has a zinc core that is plated with (mostly) copper. When the plating gets a nick or scratch, the zinc inside is exposed to the air, and starts to corrode. That often causes more of the plating to flake off, exposing even more of the core, and perpetuating the process. This is very common on damaged cents minted after  the composition was changed in 1982.

For the sake of accuracy: only certain types of double strikes are considered planchet errors. These would include, for example, a cent restruck by nickel dies, or a foreign coin restruck by US coin dies. Many of these, probably the majority, are created intentionally. Most other forms of double strikes or multiple strikes are considered to be striking errors.

I have to admit, statements like this cause some concern. You may be an experienced numismatist, but I assume you are relatively new to the coin world. If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, why not post a picture, obverse and reverse, of one of your coins? That way members can look at it and try to determine if it actually is an error. The reason I say this is that if you're looking at coin pictures online, chances are they may not be pictures of genuine errors, depending on who posted the picture. There is probably as much or more false information on the internet as there is true, especially when it comes to error coins.
Edited to add. The picture of the capped die cent wasn't showing up when I posted the above reply. That definitely is a genuine error. My apologies to the OP. Still, you might want to post a picture of yours, just to be sure.

I have to admit, statements like this cause some concern. You may be an experienced numismatist, but I assume you are relatively new to the coin world. If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, why not post a picture, obverse and reverse, of one of your coins? That way members can look at it and try to determine if it actually is an error. The reason I say this is that if you're looking at coin pictures online, chances are they may not be pictures of genuine errors, depending on who posted the picture. There is probably as much or more false information on the internet as there is true, especially when it comes to error coins.
Edited to add. The picture of the capped die cent wasn't showing up when I posted the above reply. That definitely is a genuine error. My apologies to the OP. Still, you might want to post a picture of yours, just to be sure.

You can continue to play devil's advocate or "defender of the downtrodden" all you like, but, rest assured, the majority of the members of this forum strongly disapprove of this guy's tactics, especially since he's been repeatedly called out, and continues to do it. It isn't "harmless conduct." It's the forum equivalent of spam phone calls and junk mail, and we don't like it.

You can continue to play devil's advocate or "defender of the downtrodden" all you like, but, rest assured, the majority of the members of this forum strongly disapprove of this guy's tactics, especially since he's been repeatedly called out, and continues to do it. It isn't "harmless conduct." It's the forum equivalent of spam phone calls and junk mail, and we don't like it.

This forum is not your personal venue for hawking your coins. The marketplace forum is the place to sell coins. Please stop spamming this forum.
And, while I have your attention, intruding on other posters threads, trying to sell them coins for which they are not looking, is in poor taste.

This forum is not your personal venue for hawking your coins. The marketplace forum is the place to sell coins. Please stop spamming this forum.
And, while I have your attention, intruding on other posters threads, trying to sell them coins for which they are not looking, is in poor taste.

This forum is not your personal venue for hawking your coins. The marketplace forum is the place to sell coins. Please stop spamming this forum.
And, while I have your attention, intruding on other posters threads, trying to sell them coins for which they are not looking, is in poor taste.