These presidential tokens seem to be a popular find among a lot of us, who seem to find these things at pretty much the same 5-6" depth. With the exception of the ancient-looking presidential token thingamajig with the red background posted in the photo forum, these tokens are apparently (without seeing photos of them) pieces to Shell Oil Co.'s "Mr. President's Game." They came in two versions, aluminum and brass, depending on how far along you got in the game. If you collected the whole set of presdential aluminum tokens by your parents filling up their car's gas tank enough times, you got a set of the brass tokens ... or a set of drinking glasses or 500 S&H green stamps or something like that. Shell also subsequently ran a "States of the Union" game with aluminum and brass pieces, but I haven't seen any posts this year from anyone finding those game tokens. I had a whole dresser junk drawer full of 'em in 1970.

Standard Oil (Amoco) also had a competing "Mr. Presidents" game where you collected these small plastic figurines of all the presidents (complete with a styrofoam setting for all your presidential guys complete with columns that looked like something out of the Athenian ruins), but I don't think we'll be uncovering any of those with our detectors. I remember having *that* piece of work in my bedroom for months and months until I finally got tired of my mother making me dust the little men and that ersatz Parthenon every weekend and I just dumped the whole shebang into the trash.

Between my dad's '64 Impala Super Sport and his '68 Ford Galaxie 500, our family apparently sucked up our share of petroleum products, so I pretty much know about every gasoline company premium doled out in the Chicagooland area between the early 1960s and late 1970s -- everything from those Citgo "tiger in your tank" glasses to those goofy little Union 76 (Clark) fluorescent orange styrofoam balls you stuck on the end of your radio antenna.

Scott