halfdime
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Why didn't TEEM survive?
If I'm not going to have a very good day finding old coins, at least sometimes there's a consolation prize. Today, back at an old church camp, I managed to pull a pair of newer wheats and some clad, but silver proved elusive. Searching in an area near the spot where I found a 41 Merc last week, I found this "Castle Club" pop bottle. Usually, these off brands have information on the bottle that identifies the city the bottler was from, but no luck on this one. I'll do some research, but maybe someone here is already familiar with the brand. On the bottom of the bottle are some numbers: 1 1937. I've seen bottles dated this way before, and this may be that old; again, someone here will know. A little while later, I spotted this green bottle, again on the surface. I thought to myself, "That looks like a TEEM bottle!" I still have vivid memories of TEEM from boyhood; I think it was a Pepsi product, but it's long gone. At the church camp I grew up at, we younguns used to make our fortune hounding people for their pop bottles; there was a 2 cent deposit to be had (later in the 70's it went to 5 cents) and 2 cents would buy you one of those long pretzel rods at the camp store. For my money, TEEM tasted better than Sprite; they were contemporaries in the lemon-lime category, but you can still buy Sprite. Anyway, you can see the ghost of the old TEEM lettering on the bottle, but I couldn't get it to photograph.
The kids were off of school today, the afternoon was warm and sunny, so we spent it detecting. The kids can play basketball, swing and use the teeter-totter; a good time was had by all. As I said last week, whoever detected this camp first had to have found some incredible stuff
If I'm not going to have a very good day finding old coins, at least sometimes there's a consolation prize. Today, back at an old church camp, I managed to pull a pair of newer wheats and some clad, but silver proved elusive. Searching in an area near the spot where I found a 41 Merc last week, I found this "Castle Club" pop bottle. Usually, these off brands have information on the bottle that identifies the city the bottler was from, but no luck on this one. I'll do some research, but maybe someone here is already familiar with the brand. On the bottom of the bottle are some numbers: 1 1937. I've seen bottles dated this way before, and this may be that old; again, someone here will know. A little while later, I spotted this green bottle, again on the surface. I thought to myself, "That looks like a TEEM bottle!" I still have vivid memories of TEEM from boyhood; I think it was a Pepsi product, but it's long gone. At the church camp I grew up at, we younguns used to make our fortune hounding people for their pop bottles; there was a 2 cent deposit to be had (later in the 70's it went to 5 cents) and 2 cents would buy you one of those long pretzel rods at the camp store. For my money, TEEM tasted better than Sprite; they were contemporaries in the lemon-lime category, but you can still buy Sprite. Anyway, you can see the ghost of the old TEEM lettering on the bottle, but I couldn't get it to photograph.
The kids were off of school today, the afternoon was warm and sunny, so we spent it detecting. The kids can play basketball, swing and use the teeter-totter; a good time was had by all. As I said last week, whoever detected this camp first had to have found some incredible stuff
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