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Washingtonian Bros Plunder Spokane - Big Silver, Gold & Rare Tokens!
Hi everybody,
My brother and I took our annual brothers trip this weekend and decided the focus was going to be all metal detecting. We headed to Spokane with silver on our mind.
We had 4 main sites we were interested in detecting:
-My Uncle's 1920s church
-Homes near the church
-My friend's 1950s house where we were staying
-A 1940s plot of land the church owns and uses for camps
We drove over from Seattle Thursday night and made our battle plans.
Friday:
Friday morning we went to the church first. It had clearly been picked over but we did manage a few keepers there (3 wheats and a silver bracelet). We checked in on the surrounding houses and most people were either; not home, not nice or had recently had their yard detected. Looks like someone beat us to the punch. I even asked one of the women if I could still detect her yard even though someone else had and she said no because that person left such a mess. Yikes.
Thankfully my uncle offered the church's camp property so Friday afternoon we headed that direction. We started getting some wheats and knick knacks but not a ton else. Seemed like it had been picked over too. Near the end of the day I found a silver ring in a ballfield. My brother was lamenting that he didn't find any silver but mentioned he found a couple cool tokens. He showed them to me and I thought they looked like the kind of thing that could be pretty rare. Turns out he made the finds of the day! Idaho Tokens confirmed there are 5-10 of each of these tokens known in existence.
I didn't want to end the day without any silver coins so I spent some time that night hunting my friend's yard by headlamp. Did manage a rosie.
Here's our keepers from day one:
Saturday:
Saturday we resolved to spend the whole day at the camp. It was more wheats and tax tokens but slow going again. Right at the beginning of the day my brother did find another one of the tokens from the day before, this time a 50-center. After probably 6-7 hours of hunting we were feeling a bit dejected after not finding much else. While heading back toward the car I did score a little silver ring in the same field where I found the silver ring from the previous day. Nice! So I'm packing my stuff into the car while my brother is digging one last signal 25 feet away. Suddenly I hear "Bro!". I run over to him and he's got this big shiny in his hand.
This is our first walker ever. We've found a couple Franklins but this was our white whale. Such a cool find. We were talking about how badly we wanted to find one on our drive over on Thursday. Our last 30 minutes saved the hunt!
Day two ended up being pretty alright:
Sunday:
We only had a couple hours to put toward hunting on Sunday morning before making our way back to Seattle. An hour in we didn't have too much to show. Then I get a 12-19 nickel signal 3 inches down. Boy was I surprised to see my first gold found with the CTX! It's a chunky, 9 gram, men's, 14K ring.
We heard from the woman who oversees the property that someone lost their wedding ring here a while back. This might be it. I'm working on getting in touch with the possible owner right now. With 20 minutes left I got another penny/dime signal, this time two inches down in the gravel. After 20 wheats and a huge clad haul, I'd yet to find a silver coin at the camp. Thankfully I lucked up on a rosie there at the end of the day! 10 minutes later I hear my brother shout "Buff!". We figured there had to be at least one here even though the property has only been in the church's hands since the late 40s.
Day three was great too:
We had so much fun. Here are some wrap up photos of the goods.
The keepers:
The clad and odds and ends:
Silver coins:
Silver and gold jewelry:
Tokens and buff:
Buttons (one on the left looks like cub scouts, anyone know about the one on the right?):
Old bullets? (We were near an area known to have had fur traders going back to the mid-1800s. Doubt these bullets are associated with church camps. Can anyone tell us more?)
Final Tally:
-1 Walker (46S)
-2 Rosies (47S, 52S)
-1 Buff (36)
-30 Wheats (Only notable date is a 20S)
-2 KGVI Canadian Pennies
-4 WA Tax Tokens
-1 14K ring
-2 silver rings
-1 silver bracelet
-3 Hinkle and Code Lewiston, Idaho tokens (5c, 25c, 50c)
Thanks for looking and happy hunting out there!
-Washingtonian Bros
Hi everybody,
My brother and I took our annual brothers trip this weekend and decided the focus was going to be all metal detecting. We headed to Spokane with silver on our mind.
We had 4 main sites we were interested in detecting:
-My Uncle's 1920s church
-Homes near the church
-My friend's 1950s house where we were staying
-A 1940s plot of land the church owns and uses for camps
We drove over from Seattle Thursday night and made our battle plans.
Friday:
Friday morning we went to the church first. It had clearly been picked over but we did manage a few keepers there (3 wheats and a silver bracelet). We checked in on the surrounding houses and most people were either; not home, not nice or had recently had their yard detected. Looks like someone beat us to the punch. I even asked one of the women if I could still detect her yard even though someone else had and she said no because that person left such a mess. Yikes.
Thankfully my uncle offered the church's camp property so Friday afternoon we headed that direction. We started getting some wheats and knick knacks but not a ton else. Seemed like it had been picked over too. Near the end of the day I found a silver ring in a ballfield. My brother was lamenting that he didn't find any silver but mentioned he found a couple cool tokens. He showed them to me and I thought they looked like the kind of thing that could be pretty rare. Turns out he made the finds of the day! Idaho Tokens confirmed there are 5-10 of each of these tokens known in existence.
I didn't want to end the day without any silver coins so I spent some time that night hunting my friend's yard by headlamp. Did manage a rosie.
Here's our keepers from day one:
Saturday:
Saturday we resolved to spend the whole day at the camp. It was more wheats and tax tokens but slow going again. Right at the beginning of the day my brother did find another one of the tokens from the day before, this time a 50-center. After probably 6-7 hours of hunting we were feeling a bit dejected after not finding much else. While heading back toward the car I did score a little silver ring in the same field where I found the silver ring from the previous day. Nice! So I'm packing my stuff into the car while my brother is digging one last signal 25 feet away. Suddenly I hear "Bro!". I run over to him and he's got this big shiny in his hand.
This is our first walker ever. We've found a couple Franklins but this was our white whale. Such a cool find. We were talking about how badly we wanted to find one on our drive over on Thursday. Our last 30 minutes saved the hunt!
Day two ended up being pretty alright:
Sunday:
We only had a couple hours to put toward hunting on Sunday morning before making our way back to Seattle. An hour in we didn't have too much to show. Then I get a 12-19 nickel signal 3 inches down. Boy was I surprised to see my first gold found with the CTX! It's a chunky, 9 gram, men's, 14K ring.
We heard from the woman who oversees the property that someone lost their wedding ring here a while back. This might be it. I'm working on getting in touch with the possible owner right now. With 20 minutes left I got another penny/dime signal, this time two inches down in the gravel. After 20 wheats and a huge clad haul, I'd yet to find a silver coin at the camp. Thankfully I lucked up on a rosie there at the end of the day! 10 minutes later I hear my brother shout "Buff!". We figured there had to be at least one here even though the property has only been in the church's hands since the late 40s.
Day three was great too:
We had so much fun. Here are some wrap up photos of the goods.
The keepers:
The clad and odds and ends:
Silver coins:
Silver and gold jewelry:
Tokens and buff:
Buttons (one on the left looks like cub scouts, anyone know about the one on the right?):
Old bullets? (We were near an area known to have had fur traders going back to the mid-1800s. Doubt these bullets are associated with church camps. Can anyone tell us more?)
Final Tally:
-1 Walker (46S)
-2 Rosies (47S, 52S)
-1 Buff (36)
-30 Wheats (Only notable date is a 20S)
-2 KGVI Canadian Pennies
-4 WA Tax Tokens
-1 14K ring
-2 silver rings
-1 silver bracelet
-3 Hinkle and Code Lewiston, Idaho tokens (5c, 25c, 50c)
Thanks for looking and happy hunting out there!
-Washingtonian Bros
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