Token
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A material visible sign of the existence of a fact. Thus, cheating by false tokens is perpetrating a fraud by employment of some material device, some cunningly devised false thing, in corroboration of one's lying representations. Token, as used in a statute punishing false pretences, signifies " a sign," " a mark," " a symbol." And the term " written token " will include matter printed or lithographed.
Jones V. State, 60 Ind. 473, 476. 2.
Token is also applied to small coins, such as used to be privately struck (this is now generally disallowed), and to some extent passed current as money.