1923 Public Playground Finds

pa-dirt_nc-sand

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Apr 18, 2016
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South Western PA
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2
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ACE 250 with DD coil
Equinox 600
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Decided to hit an area of the city with an old elementary school surrounded by park woods and a playground that is almost 100 years old.
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I’ve hit an 1800’s dot nearby in the park woods and pulled some old coppers and relics, met up with MetalHeadz to try our luck around the playground.

While Hiking/swinging to the target area I got a 17 on the Nox. I find a lot of rotted pocket knives, rarely anything worth posting, but this one was cool.
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Next find was a Merc, wheat, a bunch of Memorials, then this big copper token popped out, silver quarter signal.
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Here is some research on the token sent over by MetalHeadz.
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Here is the handful.
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The old watch is marked 95 and a silver mark is on the opposite corner, crusty, but pretty high grade silver.
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The zippo lighter body has an interesting engraving and was obviously stolen by someone with the initials K.S.
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Also found a complete locking latch mechanism, most likely from a treasure chest.
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Good luck out there!
 

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pa-dirt_nc-sand

Silver Member
Apr 18, 2016
4,237
14,674
South Western PA
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Equinox 600
Primary Interest:
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wpsgta1000

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Jul 17, 2013
113
114
florida
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Cool on the pocket knife. I once found a 1939 Worlds Fair pocket knife in similar condition.
 

wpsgta1000

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Jul 17, 2013
113
114
florida
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Forgot to add that mine was for the San Francisco 1939 worlds fair and was found in North Georgia.
 

Oct 5, 2014
31,886
35,425
Massachusetts
🥇 Banner finds
1
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Garrett: AT Pro, AT Gold & Infinium; Minelab: Explorer SE, II; Simplex; Tesoro: Tejon & Outlaw; White's: V3i
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Congrats on the old finds! :occasion14:
 

Whyme

Silver Member
Aug 22, 2007
3,731
5,451
Western New York
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CTX-3030, Equinox 800
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All Treasure Hunting
Hey I have that same Green River token! I found it on the floor of my Aunts house before they moved in. Found a bunch of wheat pennies and a few IHP's too. Very cool knife! Congrats! :icon_thumleft:
 

JerV3

Gold Member
Feb 28, 2005
5,718
2,613
Three Rivers
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Minelab Etrac ,Xp Deus, Ctx 3030, Vanquish 440 X 2, Equinox 600, Equinox 800
Nice stuff,

Agreed that worlds fair knife is a cool one. Yeah ive located the green wiskey token a half dozen times in the past 25 yrs.

Keep hunting you guys are doing well. We got some great history around us.

Jer
 

Tpmetal

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Jan 4, 2017
4,443
7,578
Western ny
Detector(s) used
equinox 800, Whites mx sport, Garrot carrot, bounty hunter time ranger
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It’s amazing how my typical 3” blob of rust I brush off and ID as an old pocket knife can give off such a nice tight silver dime type signal.

Right. I have always thought it is because of the brass end caps. sees that and just gives a small signal. Probably wrong though lol
 

BLK HOLE

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Aug 3, 2017
4,725
6,501
Northern Virginia
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AT MAX/AT PRO/GPX-4500, Equinox 800, Garrett Pro Pointer,NEL Attack Coil, Lesche diggers, and the custom made in the USA Freeloader Pack Mule Pouch!
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All Treasure Hunting
Excellent hunt and a really nice group of saves, that token is real cool and that pocket knife is really neat, congrats:occasion14:
 

Possum

Bronze Member
Nov 22, 2017
1,912
2,477
Southeast Louisiana
Detector(s) used
Minelab CTX 3030 and Equinox 800, XP Deus, Shadow X5, Shadow X2, Fisher F44, Whites Coinmaster, and Tesoro Compadre'
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Nice Finds, Congrats!!! "D"
 

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