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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2372230, member: 32619&quot;]Good evening CoinTalkers!</p><p><br /></p><p>Tonight I shot some images of my tokens from Joelton Air Force Station, Tennessee. I actually haven&#039;t really looked at them so I may not like them very much. Anyway, I bought these tokens back when I was still in Korea...nearly three years ago now! I was on the fence about purchasing the lot and the seller - unknown to me at the time - had several. I should have been more patient or asked in an effort to get the best lot but oh well. Something I found very interesting was that when Paul Cunningham published his monumental work, &quot;Military Tokens of the United States: Volume 1 (Domestic Issues)&quot; he only listed the 10¢ token and gave it a value of $100, and this was in 1994. I picked up this set for less than that price but we all know price lists are not very useful. Since these tokens were unlisted I gave them their own Cunningham number, keeping with his system.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tokens below with the Cunningham number:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/tn30a-joelton-afs-5c.4258/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>TN30a (Blurry...will have to reshoot! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/tn30b-joelton-afs-10c.4259/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>TN30b </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/tn30c-joelton-afs-25c.4260/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>TN30c</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/tn30d-joelton-afs-50c.4261/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>TN30d</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/tn30e-joelton-afs-1.4262/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p>TN30e (The green has me worried. Must buy Verdicare<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie15" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Joelton Air Force Station (AFS) was a radar site that provided coverage for the Nashville, Tennessee area. It&#039;s purpose in life was to monitor the airspace and should unfriendly aircraft approach it was to guide interceptor aircraft to the location of the enemy. It became operational 1 October 1956 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with the creation of the 799th Aircraft Control and Warning Station. Joelton was closed 1 June 1961 due to budgetary constraints.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Below is the unit emblem:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]485291[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Some photos from <a href="http://www.radomes.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.radomes.org" rel="nofollow">www.radomes.org</a> of the radars:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]485293[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485294[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485295[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And a current image of the area, again from <a href="http://www.radomes.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.radomes.org" rel="nofollow">www.radomes.org</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]485297[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The FAA still operates the radar. Many of the old Air Force building still stand, though they&#039;ve been re-purposed. The &quot;barracks&quot; (we don&#039;t use that word) have been torn down and were where the playground is.</p><p><br /></p><p>No wonder these tokens were largely unknown to Cunningham with the station operating less than five years![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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