Yesterdays finds, actually. Laurel, MD. Token experts step right up! Thanks!

[DFW_THer]

Yesterday's finds, actually. Laurel, MD. Token experts step right up! Thanks!

Hi!

Me and my huntin' buddy had a good day in a Laurel, MD farmfield yesterday.

A couple silvers between us and a token that needs an ID. Anyone have any feedback? Good for a GL of milk? GL of gas?

I found what looks to be a one peso coin from 1869-1872, cut out and converted into some kind of pin. Coolness! Also a nice DC dog tax token. 1926-27. Merc is a '23. Nice dig, Andy..

Thanks for looking!
Brad

 

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[baylorhall]

Great finds!!

 

[Subterranean]

Excellent finds, congratulations. I can't find your Army Doctor lead figure in any of my reference material. He looks like the Army MD's made by Barclay, Manoil, and Jones pre WW2, but has his own unique uniform. Happy Hunting, Sub

 

[BosnMate]

You made some interesting finds. When I was a kid Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Baily brought their circus to town a couple of times. When I was 9 or 10 I got a job for the circus, a bunch of us kids crawled around under the canvass while the elephants pulled up the big top among other things. We got filthy as heck and our pay was a ticket to the show. While we were gathered as a group behind an elephant, with the boss was telling us what to do, the darn animal passed a massive amount of gas that ended up with a fine spray of mostly digested alfalfa hay sprinkling our faces, and as I recollect it was all down hill from there. You can imagine what a dozen or fifteen young boys would do being blasted by an elephant, there was a lot of oooohs, face wiping and gagging going on. Looking back, I'm grinning as I type.

 

[DFW_THer]

Excellent finds, congratulations. I can't find your Army Doctor lead figure in any of my reference material. He looks like the Army MD's made by Barclay, Manoil, and Jones pre WW2, but has his own unique uniform. Happy Hunting, Sub

Appreciate it!

 

[fishstick]

Those r sum really SWEET finds bud!! I luv that token but that cut-out is WICKED. Hope sumone can help with an i.d. CONGRATS.. HH

 

[wheatfinder13]

Cool

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeap, cool little silver piece. I've had a couple of coin cut items like that but not a silver one, very nice piece. (also seen a couple on here, normally made into pendants though)

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

I got a similar mexican cut silver (1887 5 centavos) was also made into a pin, pin broke off though.
Not many cut outs posted ? quite a coincidence that these are near the same.

The lead toy is a good find.

 

[idahotokens]

I can't seem to find my MD token book to see if the T.H.B. & Co. / 1 Gal. token is listed. There were a lot of this sort of "piecework" token used in the Eastern Shore area. They were typically used in a shellfish processing plant - workers were given a token when they finished processing or shelling one gallon of oysters (or whatever the plant was processing). At the end of the shift, they would stop by the paymaster and turn in all the tokens they had accumulated during the day and receive their pay. The tokens were used to avoid having to handle money during the day and because the plant may handle differently-paid products during the season. A trip to the library or historical society in the area where you found this might be in order. There you might be able to find a processor whose initials were T.H.B.
John in the Great 208