Former mining village and fathers yard

[Stephen1]

Former mining village and father's yard

Today I decided to hunt in an area where company houses from one of the Pennsylvania coal co mines use to stand. The houses were demolished in the 1940s I beleive. Today was just a test hunt and I ended up with a pocket knife and a small token or button of some sort (maybe someone can have some input on that)...not really sure. Then afterwards I went to my father's yard which keeps producing. I ended up with 4 silver dimes (one barber and three mercuries) and a bunch of Wheaties which I have not pictured. All in all it was a pretty good day considering I was out there for just over 2 hours!

 

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[Ronson]

Nice digs for 2 hours! Looks like a transit token, tho most I have have letters cut out in the middle... that looks like a 2...?

 

[bootybandit]

nice finds! wonder if that knife will clean up...

 

[Stephen1]

Yes it appears to be a 2 to me also...the writing is so faint it's almost non existant. I have to add that the three mercury dimes were all within a 2-3 foot radius and down deep enough to be almost at the end of my f2's range. They were giving a random extremely faint and choppy signal, normally I wouldn't dig them but I've been trying to completely clear a section if my father's yard if every signal. Luckily I did!!

 

[treblehunter]

Sweet, your fathers yard is great!

 

[Stephen1]

After some research the token isn't a 2 it's an s. It's from the scranton railway company which makes sense with where i found it.

 

[Nepa-Will]

Nice finds! i found one of the Scranton Railway Tokens also.