cold cold day at a 1800s home = cool finds and my oldest IH!!!!

[Mr Tuff]

so up and at em was a cool 39 deg today.. with a mix of mist, mud, and frozen tundra. the digging was rough and messy glad i had a few pairs of gloves... but i managed a few old glass bits a nice lil teacup a button. and some play coins from 1949 and 1950. and some clad.. plus i found a cool old 1 1/2 cent token help on the ID if anyone can .. but i pulled my oldest IH 1874, V nickle 1906, Buff 1935, 1936, Wheat's 1919, 1928, 1930, 1934d, 1938, 1942d, 1944, 1945.. hope this was not the last dig ( my knee wishes it was ) of the year.. best of digs to all MR TUFF

 

[sniffer]

that's a heck of day, I like those tokens

 

[Mr Tuff]

rest

 

[DigginThePast]

Congrats on a great trip out. Rough and messy digging but you got out.

 

[goldguru]

Thats a Great Day there Tuff

 

[JerV3]

Nice finds man

That 74 is a good yr to find. I have a feeling your gonna beat that indian real soon.

HH Jer

 

[MarkinIa]

Looks like you found a good yard to MD. I hope theirs more there.

I've found a few of those Il. tax tokens.

 

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

congrats on the nice assortment of finds and thanks for sharing hh

 

[Ifoundit69]

WTG on the finds , I like the tea cup that is cool and awesome IH as well ..

 

[seger98]

Excellent finds, great coins, neat little bottles & button. real nice.

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Nice hunt, Mr. Tuff. Congrats on your oldest IH. Digging in that cold mud sure makes a mess of your gloves, doesn't it?

 

[ironhorse]

congrats on a fine hunt!

I found a dollhouse teacup earlier this fall,quite similar to yours, I consider it a pretty decent find, wtg!

 

[garthbfan169]

SWEET finds Mr Tuff!! Those Occ tokens are very kool!! Nice hunt thanks for posting pics!!

 

[Sofaman36]

Nice finds! HH

 

[kimsdad]

Congrats on the great finds!!!

That's an old IL tax token. I found my first ones this year. They were good for 1 1/2 mils, not cents. Here's the history from a different site:

Sales tax tokens were made in great quantities starting in 1935 in order to give change for sales taxes. Sales tax resulted in the final price of items having fractions of a cent. For example, purchase of a $1.25 item, taxed at 3%, would cost $1.2875, or $1.28 and 3/4c. What to do? Rounding up to $1.29 would result in a "unfair" profit to the seller of 1/4c, but rounding down would be unfair to the seller by reducing the profit by 3/4c. The solution was to provide tokens denominated in fractions of a cent, or "mills" (1 mill = 1/1000 of a dollar, or 1/10 of a cent). So in the above example, the customer would pay $1.29 and receive 2.5 mills in tax tokens as change. If the next purchase came to $3.4325, the customer could pay $3.43 plus the 2.5 mills in tax tokens. As you can imagine, people did not like having to carry a second set of coins, and to further complicate matters, different states issued different tax tokens. The use of tax tokens declined and was finally discontinued in 1961, and people basically decided not to worry about fractions of a cent.

 

[Imnengr]

Nice finds. Awoke to snow today...nice to see some tough MD'ers braving the cold. Thanks for sharing!

 

[dfx willy]

That 1874 is a really nice penny. The 1870s are so hard to find around here, and when you do find one, it is usually burned and unidentifiable except for the date.

i agree. willy

 

[wildwood]

Nice finds, I'd never seen the tax tokens before...

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

Great finds, neat cup and token.........Congrats on your oldest IH

 

[Knightwalker]

Wow. Great haul for a cold day. Suppose to get up around 40 down here in Central IL tomorrow. I'm hoping to get out and play in the snow, mud and what ever else gets in my way. lol
HH
Knightwalker