A 2 Hour Hunt Yields a old Large Cent and a William H. Harrison Campaign Token

[VTColonialDigger]

The day started with the normal clad pennies, but ended with 2 great finds!
I was searching in an early 1800's house lawn... until I saw the very old stone wall in a wooded area in the back. Was detecting in there and got a screaming 92 at 1-2" on my Ace... I had a feeling it was a large cent, and it was!



The date is 1819 (hard to see in the pictures and someone put a hole through the "18" part)

Detected in the vegetation a bit, but only found junk and a more modern drawer pull.

Then I detected back on the clearer part in the wooded area and got a great signal not 2 feet from the Large Cent, showing up around 7 inches. I dug and dug and finally pulled out a huge token.




It turned out to be this 1840 William Henry Harrison presidential Campaign Token! There is nothing for scale in my picture, but the token is about the same size as a silver dollar. I think this is a super cool find!

I am hoping to see what else turns up at this place.

GL & HH

VTColonialDigger

 

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[Mzjavert]

Old political memorabilia is so neat. Modern buttons would be gone in a few years.

 

[Diggin Dude]

Wow!! I really like that campaign token!! Nice LC find! Congrats and HH

 

[Kurios1]

LC's are always cool but, pales in comparison to the giant way cool token coin! She a real WINNER!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the LC and token

 

[scruggs]

Nicely done! Way to go with those sweet finds!

 

[Steve in PA]

Congrats on the LC and the Harrison token. I dug a Harrison token, but mine is more like the size of a quarter. Never saw a large one like yours.

 

[Don in SJ]

Congrats on the LC and the Harrison token. I dug a Harrison token, but mine is more like the size of a quarter. Never saw a large one like yours.

I have the same one, a base metal type, almost silver dollar size and also one that is quarter size. Found the large on way back in the late 1980s, thought I had a big coin at the time. Nice seeing so many Presidential tokens being posted lately, they seem to come in bunches.

 

[sandchip]

Man, that Harrison token is killer! Don't know what it's worth, but any bottle from his campaign is a huge deal.

 

[Nashvegas]

The token is awesome!

 

[Relicific]

That's a very cool token

 

[rcs]

Love the presidential memorabilia. Very nice!