Found a coin purse with seated in it!

[IAMZIM]

Found a coin purse with seated in it! Update on token.

Short and sweet, found a coin purse in a mucky swampy spot that had seated dimes , a barber , Indians, a token, and an Italian coin. Trying to post this with my phone , hope it works. ..I had time to research the token in the group this morning at the archives, here is what I found...1896 Directory A saloon run by Thomas Pooley in Burlington MT, I found this coin purse "in" Burlington, which no longer exists, other than a few stone foundations and some sagebrush....The Anaconda standard. (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970 Also here in the Anaconda standard August 31st, 1896, page 6, the saloon is listed in a political article. And, it seems later that Thomas Pooley moved his saloon to Butte, and got himself into quite a bit of trouble! Apparently he had a feud with his son-in-law, and ended up killing both his daughter and his son-in-law.... Daily inter mountain. (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901 ,The Butte inter mountain. (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912 , Lots of interesting history on him, makes the token ALOT more interesting now!

 

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[Argentium]

Wow ! " Sweet dreams are made of these " That is an incredible find friend ! The spoon I see there - Silver ?

 

[IAMZIM]

Spoon plated...Although I have found solid silver ones before. ..

 

[Doubter in MD]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[frogginfish]

WOWZA!!!! Those are some amazing finds, my friend! !

 

[Dust Eater]

Cool! I wonder how it was lost?

 

[cw0909]

wow nice, cant see the dates, i think i see a 1883

 

[park pirate]

Wow awesome find..

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Hey ZIM
What a Dream Find !
Congrats on getting to recover something that exciting .

Outstanding



dawg

 

[CRUSADER]

 

[BigWaveDave]

terrific find... congrats!

 

[Limitool]

Very cool... I wonder how all those items ended up in a swampy area. But then again maybe it wasn't swampy back then. But very cool guy and some easy digging also!!!

 

[ajaj]

Exciting find; congrats!

aj

 

[46Wheat]

Wow ..... thats incredible . Congrats

 

[kingskid1611]

It's the mothers load. I bet she really missed that when she lost it. that would be breakfast at least. Congrats on an Incredible find!

 

[doninbrewster]

Now that's one sweet coin purse! Fabulous find, especially from you're location. Finding something like this in the east is far more likely. Finding one in Montana which had far less people back then is just amazing. Great find!

 

[pepperj]

What a cool recovery with the coin pouch being intact as much as it is, what is the date range of the coinage? The token is neat, I looked for a reference on Pooley but came up blank. Congrats on the find it'll make an awesome display!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on that amazing coin purse find. I think we a ll dream of digging one of those.

 

[K1DDO1979]

That is very cool. More old coins and variety in one shot then some people ever get at all. Awesome find(s) and just imagine if there would have been a gold coin in there also! [emoji2]