TNTGross
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A few weeks ago, I was in downtown Jacksonville hunting a curbside next to a parking lot. I wasn't there but a minute and the first good signal I got was only an inch or two deep. At that shallow a depth, I figured it was a newish clad coin, but when I dug it out and wiped off the dirt, I saw that it was a large coin/token with a swastika on it.
My first thought was it was a German coin from WWII, but it had English on it. Then I was thinking it was some Neo-Nazi propaganda piece. I took it back to my truck and took a couple pics of it so that I could zoom in and get a better look at it.
When I zoomed in, I could see other little symbols mixed in with the swastika. A wishbone, four leaf clover, and a horseshoe and the words "Good Luck." My mind was blown.... It has a fifth symbol mixed in with them, I could not make that one out. Now I'm thinking to myself... What kind of mixed up $!!& is this??? On the reverse, it had a company logo.
When I got home, I cleaned it up a bit and got online to look it up. Come to find out, the true swastika symbol was a good luck symbol. Still is in some parts of the world. The Nazi party stole it in 1920 and rotated it 45 degrees and made it their state symbol in 1935.
The coin I found was from Albany Alabama. A city that became New Decatur in 1927. The company on it, Decoro, only existed from 1926 to 1936 before it went defunct. So my guess is, the coin is from 1926. The last year of Albany Alabama.
These promo coins were very common. Even the Boy Scouts had swastika coins back in the day. The Boy Scout Swastika Good Luck Club coins are very sought after, by the way...
UPDATE: So this morning, (1-23-19) I went to the same street, but four blocks down, and up a side street a few houses and found a 1933 Worlds Fair Good Luck Token with a Swastika on it. How crazy is that???
My first thought was it was a German coin from WWII, but it had English on it. Then I was thinking it was some Neo-Nazi propaganda piece. I took it back to my truck and took a couple pics of it so that I could zoom in and get a better look at it.
When I zoomed in, I could see other little symbols mixed in with the swastika. A wishbone, four leaf clover, and a horseshoe and the words "Good Luck." My mind was blown.... It has a fifth symbol mixed in with them, I could not make that one out. Now I'm thinking to myself... What kind of mixed up $!!& is this??? On the reverse, it had a company logo.
When I got home, I cleaned it up a bit and got online to look it up. Come to find out, the true swastika symbol was a good luck symbol. Still is in some parts of the world. The Nazi party stole it in 1920 and rotated it 45 degrees and made it their state symbol in 1935.
The coin I found was from Albany Alabama. A city that became New Decatur in 1927. The company on it, Decoro, only existed from 1926 to 1936 before it went defunct. So my guess is, the coin is from 1926. The last year of Albany Alabama.
These promo coins were very common. Even the Boy Scouts had swastika coins back in the day. The Boy Scout Swastika Good Luck Club coins are very sought after, by the way...
UPDATE: So this morning, (1-23-19) I went to the same street, but four blocks down, and up a side street a few houses and found a 1933 Worlds Fair Good Luck Token with a Swastika on it. How crazy is that???
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