THE U.S. NEEDS A 2½ CENT COIN

An NNP reader this week asked about a promotional token created by Harry X Boosel in 1973, lobbying for a 2c cent coin. The token claims "we need 2c cent coins" andthat fellow lobbyists ought to "write to your congressman." Surely there is more to the story - why was Boosel convinced of the utility of such a denomination, and did the effortever gain any traction? Nothing was immediately found on the Newman Portal, although there is a single use of the initials "HXB" in the Chicago Coin Club Chatter, inreference to Boosel. The token itself is listed on tokencatalog.com as TC-378397. Can E-Sylum readers help solve the mystery?

Link to Boosel token on tokencatalog.com:
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?
action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=378397&inventory_id=
371441&td_image_id=211023&attribution_id=387648
&record_offset=0