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Show off where you live and post something local:
edited to add: Hendersonville is approx. 20 miles from Asheville, where I grew up and live today. Enka, sometimes called Enka-Candler, has been incorporated into the greater Asheville area. For a neat read on Enka and its now closed down plant
click here i still see the old clock tower from the road as i pass each day.....i recently spoke with a retired 40 year employee of the Enka plant who remembers spending the Enka scrip (similar to that pictured above) in the company store
edited to add: Hendersonville is approx. 20 miles from Asheville, where I grew up and live today. Enka, sometimes called Enka-Candler, has been incorporated into the greater Asheville area. For a neat read on Enka and its now closed down plant
click here i still see the old clock tower from the road as i pass each day.....i recently spoke with a retired 40 year employee of the Enka plant who remembers spending the Enka scrip (similar to that pictured above) in the company store
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Not my hometown but my state though.... I guess its in between them
Stefanie
picked up tonight
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As for tokens, here's the one from my last giveaway:
-Randy Newman
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–John Adams, 1826
This Atlantic Shrimp Company token "Good For 15" was a detector find, as so many of my good local tokens were. Apparently this type was used both here (Brunswick, GA) and in St. Augustine, FL, as well.
The Brunswick library's Special Collection had several gaps in the old city directories for the period, but if I remember correctly, Atlantic Shrimp was listed in the 1934 directory but not in the 1937. I am assuming this piece dates to the Depression era, but it could conceivably be earlier.
I was intrigued by the denomination of it. "Good for 15". Fifteen what? 15 cents? 15 shrimp? 15 pounds of shrimp?
Later discussion after my friend Ty also found one gives us the theory that these were checks of some kind; tallies given for the daily shrimp catch brought in. If that is true, I suppose they would ahve been cashed in on paydays, maybe once a week or once a month.
I found a terrific good luck token pretty close to where I got the Atlantic Shrimp Company piece. It wasn't a local, but it is one of my favorite token finds.
I have several other tokens I never figured out. I should post them one day, when I finish the long project of imaging all of the past 16 years worth of detecting coin finds. Some of these interesting dug tokens come from YOUR hometown, Greg (my previous hometown).
I never found out much about its history.
In the front yard of an old Victorian house on Montford Avenue in Asheville, Michael (Aethelred) and I did very well.
I found three Montezuma Lumber 5c tokens (similar to the one above, but nickel size instead of half dollar size) in that yard.
This 50c token came from another site somewhere else in Buncombe County- I forget where and have to check my records.
That Montford district house produced, in addition to the three Montezuma 5c tokens, a fairly sharp 1918-S dime (for me),
a 1911-S semi-key Lincoln (for Michael) and a cool old shield-shaped hotel room key fob from a hotel in Charleston, SC (for me).
Apparently somebody in the house on Montford Avenue had worked for the Montezuma Lumber Company at some point in the early 1900s.
I don't have any cool coinage from the local area, but
I do have this.
A 10 cent Confederate stamp, canceled with a blue
Greensborough, NC cancel. Greensborough is an
obsolete spelling of my hometown, Greensboro.
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Great thread- it has brought some really cool stuff out from the woodwork.
These two really caught my eye:
I've got a transit token from here (San Jose, CA). I also have a $20 bill from the State Bank at New Brunswick which is where I lived during my teenage years.
It's too expensive a taste, in most cases, though.
blue angles at jones beach
<< <i>MrBungle- in an exonumia thread like this, I think that qualifies!
Great thread- it has brought some really cool stuff out from the woodwork.
These two really caught my eye: >>
I left this little piece of info out of the post.......
I'm pretty sure it matches this.....
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
I guess that is from Rulau?
I own a copy but have not taken it down off the shelf in too long.
Cool piece.
<< <i>Savoy PM-ed that picture to me, to tell me I have good taste when I admired that piece.
I guess that is from Rulau?
I own a copy but have not taken it down off the shelf in too long.
Cool piece. >>
I liked that piece from the first time I looked at it......have no idea why
but even more reason to love it
Stefanie
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
What's the "144" all about?
<< <i>The blissful, half-stoned looking eagle did it for me. That, and the word "Hatters". As in, "Mad Hatters".
What's the "144" all about? >>
I would assume its the address 144 Main St.
Stefanie
edit to add....it goes with this one nicely
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
Here is an interesting piece I dug while detecting here in Brunswick (GA). Note that the company who issued it seemed to have a presence both here and in Saint Augustine, FL.
I dunno if the "15" this was good for was 15 cents (seems likely), or ... 15 shrimp?
Did some looking in old city directories in the library and found the Atlantic Shrimp Company listed in a 1937 directory, I believe, but not in any of the others. The library's collection of old directories was spotty.
I've got a bag of old George VI (1930s-40s) and early QE2 (1950s) Canadian cents. Think I might take some of 'em out to the village on St. Simons Island, in the touristy area, where I know they've got some penny rolling machines. I've seen local elongates with our lighthouse on 'em. Some with dolphins, too, I think.
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