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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thetracer, post: 2079096, member: 34795&quot;]I was just listening to The CoinShowRadio when Mike and Matt were talking about dollar coins.&nbsp; And they mentioned the Mr. Presidents tokens from Shell gas stations in the 1960s.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 60s, I was too young to drive and did not.&nbsp; But, my father did and he must have gone to the Shell station regularly, and he probably knew the guys that worked there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whammo!&nbsp; I have recently taken ownership of my parents home.&nbsp; Going through the stuff, I knew that Daddy and me had some Whitman folders for cents and nickels.&nbsp; But, after finding all of those, I was in the back room, and saw a small 2 drawer metal case.&nbsp; When I pulled out one of the drawers, it looked like it was full of silver in 2x2s, a couple of tubes, and a glass baby food jar of silver . . . . . . . Mr. President tokens!</p><p><br /></p><p>Which was completely unknown to me.&nbsp; Never heard of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As soon as I picked one up, too light.&nbsp; Made of al-o-min-um-in-i-um</p><p><br /></p><p>But, they looked uncannily like our golden Prez dollar coins, for sake!~!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yep, there&#039;s a website all about it: </p><p><a href="http://www.coins-n-medals.com/Exhibits/ShellGames/ShellPresidentsGame.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coins-n-medals.com/Exhibits/ShellGames/ShellPresidentsGame.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coins-n-medals.com/Exhibits/ShellGames/ShellPresidentsGame.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This was enough to freak me out how Shell invented it first.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, the REAL SHOCK came when I found out about the next game that Shell did:&nbsp; American States!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any of those[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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