7/16/18 Report - More On Tokens. Cape Canaveral Area Shipwreck Awarded to France. Tales and Curses of Northwest Florida.

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Token Find.

Can you read what this says.  Take a shot at it. 

I'll get back to that later.

Before I get into that, the mystery token that I posted yesterday has the top of a naked lady on the front, along with the words Complete Reading, and the bottom of a lady is on the back with the words Your Best Source For Supplies.  Has anybody figured out the purpose or meaning of that?

Complete Reading is the name of a comprehensive reading curriculum for first graders, but I don't think it could possibly have anything to do with that.

Could it be referring to a psychic reading?  But why then would it be the best source for supplies.  I think it is a cover for something else, though I am far from sure.  I hope someone can come up with the answer.

What do you think the token shown at the top of the post is about?  Do you think it says RNIES LACE?  If you thought that is what it says, you are not alone.  A lot of people read it that way.   Back up and take another look.  It says Arnies Place.  That is a good illustration of the figure-ground problem in the psychology of perception.  

So what is Arnies Place?  Below is an excerpt from a web site about Arnies Place.

Welcome to Arnie's Place - Where the History is almost as Entertaining as the Games!

If you lived in Fairfield County between 1981 and 1983, you probably remember Arnie's Place more for the battle to open the arcade than for the arcade itself.  Built at 1365 Post Road East, in Westport, Arnie's Place became the premier arcade of Fairfield County, but not before a long battle with the Town of Westport that escalated to the Supreme Court of Connecticut multiple times.   This history is very incomplete, but gives you a taste of Arnie Kaye, the Town of Westport and the background behind one of Arnie's most famous publicity stunts...

Below is a photo of the arcade.

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Arnies Place

Arnies was in Westport Connecticut, but the token, like the others I showed, were found in South Florida. There were a lot of tokens found from the northeast in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area. That shows how metal detector finds sometimes give evidence of travel patterns. A lot of the snow birds from the northeast visit South Florida, while tourists from the midwest often go to the panhandle instead.

Here is more about Arnies Place.

http://arniesplacearcade.com/pictures.html

I think that shows how finding and researching tokens can be both fun and educational.

Here is a great token database.

http://tokencatalog.com

The search browser is powerful and the database is big.  I put in RNIES LACE and the Arnies Place token was located.  That is a very good browser.

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Here is a link to a nice article talking about tales and curses of Northwest Florida.

https://spiritdaily.org/blog/spiritual-warfare/the-curses-of-northwest-florida

Fun read.  Take a look.

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And here is another article on the Cape Canaveral area shipwreck thought to belong to Ribault and awarded to France.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/12/16th-century-shipwreck-off-florida-coast-is-worth-millions.html

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net