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These things must have been very common, I remember having one with a penny
mounted in the center and the aluminium around the edge like Bob Schuyler
describes below. I think mine said "Good Luck" on the aluminium portion.
Haven't excavated any though.
Chris Murphy
"Robert L. Schuyler" wrote:
> Yes. Some of us remember such things. There was also (still is?) a
> similar aluminum item with a penny in the center that said "GOOD
> LUCK" around the edge. I can not recall if this was a version of the
> same thing Rick talked about or if it is different. Has anyone ever
> dug any of these items up on a site besides our first message sender? There
> certainly must have been a lot of them. Some of us are showing
> our age, especially Rick Sprague who met Lewis and Clark when they
> arrived in what would later be Idaho. I think they gave him a
> Jeffersonian Peace Medal which he still has.
>
> Bob Schuyler
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> At 07:42 AM 5/31/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear youngster:
> >
> >Back in the Dark Ages (circa 1960) there were coin-operated machines
> >nearly everywhere that would make such imprinted "pocket pieces" in
> >exactly the form you report. The letters would be punched into the
> >token by a machine not unlike an Addressograph plate imprinter, but
> >then you wouldn't remember them, either.
> >
> >
> >
> >At 11:46 AM -0700 5/30/02, Stephanie Nutt wrote:
> >>We have an artifact in our collection I am hoping someone out there can
> >>help us identify. It is a circular token of sorts, about the size of a
> >>half dollar, made of a light weight metal -- probably aluminum. It has a
> >>cut out star in the center with an American flag on one side of the star
> >>and a four leaf clover on the other side with the words GOOD LUCK around
> >>the clover. The side of the token with the flag also says LEE & FRANCES
> >>FT. HOOD TEXAS around the edge of the token. We know it was manufactured
> >>after 1953, because that is the date Camp Hood became a permanent facility
> >>and was renamed Fort Hood. It looks like it might be some sort of token
> >>given out for a wedding or similar occasion. I can provide a digital image
> >>if anyone wants to see it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >--
> >*************************** Ned Heite ([log in to unmask])
> >
> >Proof that intelligent life survives:
> >
> >The health ministry in Belarus has outlawed
> >establishment of McDonalds restaurants because
> >they are considered unhealthful.
> >
> Robert L. Schuyler
> University of Pennsylvania Museum
> 33rd & Spruce Streets
> Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
>
> Tel: (215) 898-6965
> Fax: (215) 898-0657
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