Could they be lunch "tokens"?? Back in the 60's in grade school we used lunch tokens, sometimes they had the school name on them or the lunch vendor's ID.? This was back in NY.? Sometimes they were plastic, sometimes not.



Mark 


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Ron,?
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"Pog" was the vernacular expression for the "ligneous disk" type milk bottle caps ... ligneous disk was the technical expression, apparently only used by inventors & manufacturers & doctors giving papers at medical/health conventions. Someone once told me that wooden advertising nickles, too, were commonly used as markers in the game of "pog" at school (children were forbidden to gamble ... and it wasn't considered gambling if the markers weren't legal coinage ... marbles worked the same way), and when the wooden "pogs" became available from milk bottles, then every kid had a new source of wealth.?
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By the time I was "gambling" on the schoolyard in the 50s, the main currency had become baseball cards, and "pog" was a "sissy" game only played by the girls.?
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> Tim,?
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> The game of pog used various kinds of milk bottle liners and was played > like?
> jacks with a ball. The game comes and goes as a popular school yard game.?
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> Ron May?
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