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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J.T. Parker, post: 3686502, member: 106405&quot;]Great hunting , Paddy,</p><p>I use to hunt everyday but eschewed saltwater, due to it&#039;s usual effect on silver coins. I have 2 Tesoro Golden Sabres languishing in the corner, sans batteries, of coarse!&nbsp; I use to hunt H.U.D. houses and any open lots in downtown Houston.</p><p>&nbsp;My best find(s) were on a downtown vacant lot at the corner of Louisiana &amp; Benz St., while on my way to the large liquor store (Spec&#039;s on Smith St.)</p><p>&nbsp; I stopped at this vacant lot, just a few blocks from my destination and immediately started finding 5¢ TIME CHECK brass octagonal tokens from an old East TX log mill ghost town @ about 4-6&quot; deep.&nbsp; They were Brass &amp; marked &quot;Gebhart-Williams-Fenet , Carolina Texas.&nbsp; I ended up finding a &#039;spill&#039; of about 12, all in mixed condition (F-XF) but all&nbsp; toned dark brown &amp; obviously they&#039;d been in the ground many years. </p><p>&nbsp;After doing a bit of research I contacted a few Token collectors, who went absolutely NUTS over these octagonal pieces. One actually traded me a roll of Mercury dimes for 1 token.&nbsp; Seems that no one had ever heard of this company, much less their tokens.</p><p>&nbsp;All in all, I went back to this lot several times and always found 4 or more 5¢ Time Checks, finally digging the big rarity a 50¢ Carolina Tx. piece.</p><p>&nbsp;This was almost 30 years ago when finances were rather thin for me, so all tokens were eventually sold off to collectors &amp; must have made $3-400 bucks that really helped w/ the bills at that time.</p><p>&nbsp;Sorry for this long token-ramble, but one thing I learned was that Token Collectors are the most , if not one of the most, serious &amp; voracious collector groups out there!</p><p>Just my, Good For,</p><p>J.T.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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