Strong die polish lines on CCC token

tbishopric

This Civilian Conservation Corps token has very heavy die polish lines. It's from the 1930s. I'm working on a small set of CCC tokens. Most of the lines in the fields are raised.

Hemispherical

@tbishopric The Civilian Conservation Corps Companies each have some sort of history of what they did.

Found the following for Company 1754, McGregor, IA.

Author of the below link mentions “camp” 1754, but the pics do show it should be Company.

“The CCC, (Civilian Conservation Corps) started in 1933 and disbanded in 1942, was an agency authorized by the government to hire unemployed young men for public conservation work.

Camp 1754 was first set up at Fort Des Moines. It was moved to McGregor in 1933. In 1939 it was closed at McGregor and moved to Cherokee where it broke up at the start of World War II.

The CCC barracks at McGregor were located in a wooded park area a short distance west of the Catholic Church on Main Street. When U.S. Highway 18 into McGregor was improved a few years ago the road was routed straight through the former CCC camp area.

The McGregor camp enrolled men from most counties in northeast Iowa. Around 1,000 young men were stationed in the camp at one time or another, with a peak of 250 at anyone time.

They worked for room and board and $30 a month. The $30 a month was base pay, and $25 of that was sent home. The men drew five dollars once a month for spending money.”

http://iagenweb.org/clayton/military/CCC.htm

Thanks for posting your token!

Edit to add: E-Sylum article, https://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n17a35.html

ricko

Interesting token, and thanks for the history @Hemispherical.... Cheers, RickO