A Memorial Day Plus Two More Missouri Sales Tax Tokens

[Dman]

I got permission to detect around a house in my home town that was built in the 1940s. I thought there might be a few silver coins and wheat pennies around it. I started hunting around it and spent a couple of hours and found 28 Memorial pennies and one 1934 Wheat penny. There wasn't any quarters nor dimes in that yard. So I left there and went to one of my favorite houses where I found Missouri Sales Tax Tokens. I did manage to find two more tokens. After researching the tokens, I found out they were made out of zinc. That is why they are in such bad shape. They were issued beginning in 1934 and discontinued in 1961. I do not know how Missouri tokens made it to Tennessee. Thanks for looking.

 

[Digginman]

Those zinc tokens look better than the zinc cents I find now, and they are a lot newer.

DM

 

[seger98]

That's a bummer on those tokens.

 

[Knightwalker]

Nice finds Dman. Does make you wonder if someone else hunted that first house. But the big mystery is how did those tokens end up there. Only the tokens know and they aren't talking.
HH in 2010

 

[SkyPirate]

pretty rusty

 

[olekyground]

Great hunt! cant beat a pocket full of change after a day out on the hunt!

 

[vayank54]

It's a shame the tokens are eaten up so bad. It's strange where things are found sometimes.

 

[tinpan]

Hi Dman thanks for sharing HH

tinpan

 

[umrgolf]

Hey nice finds and sorry about the tokens (MO guy here) ... you know, I've often wondered the same thing myself about some yards... it's like you start thinking, so people have lived here for 100+ years and NOBODY dropped a dime or quarter Keep asking around though, every yard is different

 

[BuckleBoy]

I think that houses from the 1930s through the 1950s will be the future wave in yard hunting. As a kid, I went door to door in a suburb where all the houses were built in the 40s (using identical building plans). I racked up on Merc dimes, silver Washington quarters, and silver Roosies. Plus there was the odd IH, Barber, or V nickel.

You are ahead of the curve.


Nice job on the tax tokens.



-Buckles

 

[pepperj]

Gave it a good try, I didn't know the tax tokens were steel also.
I often wondered about why the purse strings were so tight at some homes and loose at others. I was told by the parents that in the 30's there was just no money to loose. What ever they got was treasured, this was carried over as they aged.

 

[Nana40]

The story of my life. Tax tokens. Lisa and I often wonder why it is that we don't come across a lot of silver. My best guess so far would be 1) we're 30 years too late....it's already been hunted. 2) They didn't have much anything to lose out here in the country. They raised their own food, made their own clothes and bartered for the rest? I do notice the closer we hunt to the city, the more silver we find.

Good luck hunting this week!!

Nana

 

[VOL1266-X]

I would think that those tax tokens must be a low zinc content since zinc fruit jar lids and the zinc disks on Williams Cleaner bullets don't show much decay at all. With all those pennies you found, you can buy lunch this week or at least pay the tip. Nice Finds!! Now, let's go find more CW relics....

 

[Dman]

I would think that those tax tokens must be a low zinc content since zinc fruit jar lids and the zinc disks on Williams Cleaner bullets don't show much decay at all. With all those pennies you found, you can buy lunch this week or at least pay the tip. Nice Finds!! Now, let's go find more CW relics....

One of the bullets I found today was a carved Williams cleaner bullet.