Rainy Day Silvers

[treasurefiend]

Went out metal detecting with DDub & Lookn4seated to a set of woods that I did some research on and wanted to hit for the past 3 years but never got around to it, well I'm glad that I finally got a chance to detect it!!! Right off the bat I found an IH then a buffalo then a dime and as the day wore on more oldies kept popping up. At one point the rain got so bad that we had to take refuge in the truck for at least 30 min's but once it let up we were back out detecting again finding more oldies. The quarter I found is my newest oldest silver but the token is by far the best find of the day for me. We are definitely going back to pound that place for all it has!!!

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

Its always nice to see your research pay off, great job Kermit
pouching the oldies with a cool token.

[Gimmie The Loot]

Yes!!! Repeal Repeal that aweful amendment! I love that token! Chicago politics at its best.

[Clad the Impaler]

More killer finds!! Congrats on your oldest silver. BTW, that is one cool token!!

[litefire56]

Nice coinage!

[watercolor]

Awesome hunt Kermit!! I LOVE that Cermak token

[Pocket Spill]

Another excellant video. Like the shot of the Merc on the surface!

[d-dub]

Great hunt, TF.

[Lowbatts]

Could it be?!? Check out this paragraph from an article on Anton Cermak, "Tough Tony" who wasthe CREATOR of the Chicago Democratic "Machine"

Cermak (on the right in this photo), a Bohemian immigrant called "Tough Tony," was not a crime crusader, particularly when it came to alcohol. In fact, while he was still chairman of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Tough Tony held huge forest preserve picnics for his supporters—for which he was given 100 free barrels of beer from north side bootlegger Roger Touhy. He sold the beer for a buck a mug. This was during Prohibition.

http://www.justonebadcentury.com/chi...history_10.asp

Kermit, it's history from the hand of the tough guy himself!

AND they were all drinking illegally in the FP's AND they all probably tossed coins at each other!

AND you guys are finding them!

Awesome!

[treasurefiend]

WOW Tim I knew about the Nitti story but I didn't know about the 100 barrels of beer and the FP party!!! Now im pumped to go back and grid that particular set of woods for any and all signals!!! Kinda makes sense as 2 barber quarters, a SLQ, barber dime, IH, wheaties and Jon's ring were found within a 10' circle of that token!

[Gimmie The Loot]

Cermak was a "wet" politician for sure. He faught for the working man... which were the immigrant Irish and Germans who only had one day off to have a beer at the neighborhood beer garden.

[Mayo South Elgin]

And I wonder if Touhy Ave is named after Roger Touhy - very interesting stuff about him in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Touhy

Murders, hostages, ransoms, selling a thousand barrels of beer a week during prohibition, slot machines, Capone, Max Factor's brother John "Jake the Barber" Factor, kidnapping of William A Hamm (Hamm's Beer heir), and grown men with nicknames like Touhy the Terrible, Murray "The Camel" Humphreys, Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, Louis "Little New York" Campagna . . .

Man - those WERE the good old days!

Amazing what one token in the woods can reveal - very cool find!

[treasurefiend]

WOW - Great read Mayo!!! I wouldn't be surprised if Touhy Ave. was infact named after him!!!