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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
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.
>
>--
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Robert L. Schuyler
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