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1910 Automobile Tour Trinidad CO

This 38mm bronzed copper piece came up for sale recently in the Holabird token auction at the 2017 WESTS show, and there wasn't much explanation of it's historic significance. Thanks to John Raymond, it became clear that this unlisted SCD references an automobile tour in 1910, in the early era of the automobile in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile A driving club out of Kansas did a 2000 mile driving tour out of Kansas, across Colorado, and down/around the southwest (see attached Motor Magazine reference). I really like the detail work on the obverse. I believe this piece might be known in brass, but I don't know much more about it other than knowing it is probably pretty scarce. Does anyone else know of automobile-referenced SCDs like this?

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