Ray in CA
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- Quincy, CA
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I drove my wife to work today to Pasadena and so I had quite a few hours to go play around with the Silver uMax & stock coil. Hit a park that dates to the thirties and nabbed a very nice '41 merc. Ahh, that broke my silver dry spell! I just had to give the Lord thanks for that. I also got the '46 wheat and a '51 nickel (not pictured).
I then got to talking with one the park guys and showed him the merc I found when I realized I was WAY LATE for picking up my wife and taking her to a meeting. I don't know if you've ever seen a grown man run through a park with a detector in his hands, but I'm sure I looked either retarded or had just struck the motherlode. Anyhow, I drove halfway there when I checked the message on my cell phone that I left in the car...it was my wife! I thought I was in deep trouble but the message said her meeting had been changed for an hour later. WHEW!!
So I head over to check out some city easements and found one in front of a house that was both vacant and for sale, where I nabbed the 1919 wheat but nothing else. Went to pick up the wife and then after dropping her off I headed over to another part of town to search for an easement, and found one in front of an old vacant house. A few memorials later and I nailed my first TAX TOKEN, and it is a cutie! I almost couldn't figure out what it was after I dug it...it was just too small to be a penny but it was definitely a coin. After rubbing the dirt off I began to see NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF REVENUE, 1935 on the front, and EMERGENCY SCHOOL TAX PURCHASE ON TWENTY FIVE CENTS, TAX TOKEN, FIVE MILLS. I consider this my most interesting find so far this year, well, next to my SLQ of course.
Here's a good link to some history of the state tax tokens in case you're interested:http://www.taxtoken.org/faq.htm
Ray
I then got to talking with one the park guys and showed him the merc I found when I realized I was WAY LATE for picking up my wife and taking her to a meeting. I don't know if you've ever seen a grown man run through a park with a detector in his hands, but I'm sure I looked either retarded or had just struck the motherlode. Anyhow, I drove halfway there when I checked the message on my cell phone that I left in the car...it was my wife! I thought I was in deep trouble but the message said her meeting had been changed for an hour later. WHEW!!
So I head over to check out some city easements and found one in front of a house that was both vacant and for sale, where I nabbed the 1919 wheat but nothing else. Went to pick up the wife and then after dropping her off I headed over to another part of town to search for an easement, and found one in front of an old vacant house. A few memorials later and I nailed my first TAX TOKEN, and it is a cutie! I almost couldn't figure out what it was after I dug it...it was just too small to be a penny but it was definitely a coin. After rubbing the dirt off I began to see NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF REVENUE, 1935 on the front, and EMERGENCY SCHOOL TAX PURCHASE ON TWENTY FIVE CENTS, TAX TOKEN, FIVE MILLS. I consider this my most interesting find so far this year, well, next to my SLQ of course.
Here's a good link to some history of the state tax tokens in case you're interested:http://www.taxtoken.org/faq.htm
Ray
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