Columbus Day Silver

[washingtonian]

Hey folks!

Got out for an unexpected outing today and it turned into a good one.

Work was fairly slow today so after a lunch meeting I got to use the afternoon to hit the dirt. I hit a spot I’ve had in mind for a while and had some great success!



Highlights include:
-1944 GW Quarter
-1919 Seattle Municipal Rail token
-Navy Button
-Tax Token
-10 Wheats
-3 Modern British Pennies

This is my first GW since a long time ago, April I think so I was very pleased with that.

Hope you had a good day and good luck out there this week!
-W

 

[Possum]

Looks like a productive day, congrats and thanks for sharing... "D"

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Congrats on the Washington quarter, but what really caught my eye was the 1919 Seattle Municipal Rail token and the Naval Button.
I'm thinking your naval is likely a 19thc Merchant Navy button due to it's heavy construction, as opposed to a 'modern' blazer button.

US Naval History
"The maritime history of the United States goes back to the first successful English colony was established in 1607, on the James River at Jamestown. It languished for decades until a new wave of settlers arrived in the late 17th century and set up commercial agriculture based on exports of tobacco to England. Settlers brought horses, cattle, sheep and hogs as well as tools and the current technology to the Americas. From the very first days of the founding of the North American colonies shipbuilding was naturally one of the industries that chiefly engaged the attention of the colonists. At the time of the breaking out of the American Revolution and for a long time afterwards more of the people in New England were actually engaged in shipbuilding and ship sailing than in agriculture, even in spite of the restrictions imposed on the building of ships in the English colonies. The statement is made that at one time during this period Massachusetts was estimated to have one vessel for every hundred of its inhabitants. One out of every four signers of the Declaration of Independence was a shipowner or had been a ship captain.

As British colonists before 1776, American merchant vessels had enjoyed the protection of the Royal Navy. Major ports in the Northeast began to specialize in merchant shipping. The main cargoes included tobacco, as well as rice, indigo and naval stores from the Southern colonies. From the other colony’s exports included horses, wheat, fish and lumber. By the 1760s New England was the center of a flourishing shipbuilding industry. Imports included all manner of manufactured goods.

The first war that an organized United States Merchant Marine took part in was the American Revolutionary War, which lasted from 1775 to 1783. In 1775 the Continental Congress and the various colonies issued Letters of Marque to privately owned, armed merchant ships known as privateers, which were outfitted as warships to prey on enemy merchant ships. They interrupted the British supply chain all along the eastern seaboard of the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean and the Merchant Marine's role in war began. This predates both the United States Coast Guard (1790) and the United States Navy (1797). During the American Revolution, American ships came under the aegis of France due to a 1778 Treaty of Alliance between the two countries.

By 1783, however, with the end of the Revolution, America became solely responsible for the safety of its own commerce and citizens. Without the means or the authority to field a naval force necessary to protect their ships in the Mediterranean against the Barbary pirates, the nascent U.S. government took a pragmatic, but ultimately self-destructive route."

We were in San Francisco in August and I toured the Cable Car Museum, I took a pic of the variety of early and modern tokens they had on display.
I find it funny how many of the early tokens had a hole in the centre.

Dave

 

[park pirate]

Nice hunt Wash....

 

[Clad2Silver]

Very nice hunt and a nice variety of items.