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Nov 07, 2009, 06:07 PM
#1
Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Hit an old school site in a bean field. The weather was SUPER!!! First couple hits were toasty wheats, then a toasty 1889 Indian. This field is not kind to copper!! Then I got what seemed to be a nice half dollar hit, but no, not a half, instead a nice 1922-23 soccer medal!! it is marked sterling. That made my hunt!! Then I got an ugly thimble and a pice of lead with coin impressions in it. Looks like 1905. A great day weather wise, and not too bad a hunt. HH all. Dan
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Nov 07, 2009 06:07 PM
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Nov 07, 2009, 07:04 PM
#2
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Here's the history of that League:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...gue_of_Chicago
Great find!
Don......
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Nov 07, 2009, 07:20 PM
#3
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Lead thing looks like someone impressed a 190(2?) Liberty Head nickel into it.
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Nov 07, 2009, 08:10 PM
#4
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Great hunt Dan.
That old soccer medal is way cool. 
(And I'd love to find an ugly thimble.)
Keep digging!
Listen-- are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
- Mary Oliver
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Nov 07, 2009, 08:19 PM
#5
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Here's another similarly dated and marked medal we worked on exactly one year ago.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...;topicseen#new
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Nov 07, 2009, 10:30 PM
#6
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Cool stuff all around, and that Soccer Medal is a very nice score! Congrats! 
Good luck,
HH.
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Nov 08, 2009, 06:58 AM
#7
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
great hunt for sure Dan! you've got some great relics, congrats on that big hunk of silver. I wonder if that was supposed to be a mold for making counterfeit liberty nickels, very cool stuff!
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Nov 08, 2009, 07:23 AM
#8
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Awesome finds Dan
very cool Soccer medallion !!
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Nov 09, 2009, 04:25 PM
#9
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Great finds Dan!!
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Nov 10, 2009, 08:22 AM
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Mike from MI
Re: Back to the fields....BIG silver, just not the kind I expected!!
Nice relics.
"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure"
Mark Twain