1814 Awesome Token, also Buttons, Relics

pepperj

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Finally had a whole day for a bit of hunting.
(Annual BD hunt)
So I headed off to see a permission that had called me up about the back tire of the backhoe falling into a cellar hole. In the side yard, 4ft down and 6ft further in was the wall.
I wanted to drop off a big Angus beef roast to the Mrs.(a thank you for digging their dirt)
Going to wait till they dig it out, instead of being buried. Been there done that one, so I'm on the speed dial.
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So now the hunt from a hard hit site.
I have gotten a few nice tokens and buttons from this cellar hole.
Though the last 2 return hunts hasn't turned out well.
So I didn't have the Deus, so I put batteries in the old Etrac this past week and renewed an old friendship.
I got a musket ball out of the spring, and flat button from another section so I thought well I'm not skunked.
I was going to a dump to dig tins and glass and that never happened.
I went back up the hillside towards the cellar hole and got a repeatable in the iron.
Dug out a iron shackle looking piece, a few nails, still it was down deeper.
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Next came a strange one. Figured it out later looking at the picture in better light.
A half of a pair of scissors. Sort of a different find, not sure on the age.
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Next find was another token, holed, looks like a weak counter strike. It has an X on the other side, worn smooth, but still has character.
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Got a few buttons and a tin and wondered what was inside, had weight, but you're going to have to wait.
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So the next token wasn't loved, don't know why.
Poor thing was beat, folded, beat some more.
Still haven't been able to figure it out yet.
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The site is challenging with steep Bank, ground cedar.
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A little guy popped up in the plug of soil.
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Just some pretty growing down by the spring
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Oh ya the tin. It didn't rattle so I took it home.
2 pair of channel locks and there is the hoard.
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Bits and bobs
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Probably it has been the longest post up I have done in many moons. (Time allowed me to)
Thanks for looking
 

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Ia.FurTrade

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Good hunt! What a beautiful token! That alone would make my day!!
Were those seeds in that tin?

Iowa Dale
 

billb

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pepperj very nice assortment here ..well said and nice pictures..stay safe out there
 

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pepperj

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Good hunt! What a beautiful token! That alone would make my day!!
Were those seeds in that tin?

Iowa Dale

Thanks Dale
It only takes one to make the day, that's for sure.
Yes on the seeds-sunflower maybe-nothing left of them.
Hope all is getting along in your neck of the woods.
 

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Great pics and digs. Etrac is a fine machine :) Congrats on your finds and look forward to seeing more from there
 

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pepperj

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pepperj very nice assortment here ..well said and nice pictures..stay safe out there

Thanks Bill
One thing about living in the rural-hermit is easier than living in urban.
 

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pepperj

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nice,the 1814 token rocks !!!

Thanks
The coinage out of this site are pretty nice overall-this one is one of nicest yet.

Great pics and digs. Etrac is a fine machine :) Congrats on your finds and look forward to seeing more from there

Thanks

I have owned it for many years now-done a lot of hours on the machine and I was surprised when I dug it out after 4 yrs of being in storage it worked.
Starting o be good friends again as the sounds are coming back to me. It's just the weight that I have to get use to again.
From the pic-one can tell the depth of the token as it was hand scooping dig a little scoop out.
It heard it beside the nails and the iron loop that sat midway in depth and 4 inches up the slope.
 

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Great finds! Cool token, too! Thanks for posting and sharing with us!
 

bill from lachine

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Jim,

Nice mix of finds liking the half penny token. I managed one of 1816 many years ago.
 

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Very nice finds, love the halfpenny token! Good luck getting an ID on that last one!
 

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pepperj

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Great finds! Cool token, too! Thanks for posting and sharing with us!
Thanks AB
Hope all is going well with you.

great finds! gorgeous tokens
Thanks Hunk a lead

Jim,

Nice mix of finds liking the half penny token. I managed one of 1816 many years ago.
Thanks Bill
It's always nice to see the early tokens.

Wow ... killer finds - congrats !
Thanks ETO
How do you like the Stealth coil?
 

Digger RJ

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Very Nice!!! Congrats!!! Cool Token!!!
 

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Nice pepper....was wondering about the seeds and if thats what they were. So cool to have all that history up there. Canada has the best digs !! Congrats on a beautiful day out !!
 

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Well that's a really nice token! Just out of curiousity, what did the toad ring up on your E-trac?...
Congratulations on a super productive hunt!
 

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pepperj

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Very nice finds, love the halfpenny token! Good luck getting an ID on that last one!

Thanks Noah
I think that I'll post it up in the "What's it" for a few knowable members to view. Being so thin-but still with some legible letters maybe someone can ID the Half Penny.
 

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pepperj

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Very Nice!!! Congrats!!! Cool Token!!!

Thanks digger RJ


Nice pepper....was wondering about the seeds and if thats what they were. So cool to have all that history up there. Canada has the best digs !! Congrats on a beautiful day out !!

Thanks Bart for your nice reply

The seed find is one of the noddle scratchers for sure, why in a tin. Where they for planting or consumption?
Either way a loss for the person as could mean the next years crop planting, and this was a tin for preventing mice getting at them.
The site area has given up military, 1740 1/2 Reale, tokens from the early 1800's, Blacksmith tokens, lots of relics, fish scales, a possible cannonball, lots of buttons.
So it gives but still holds its secrets also, as any trade silver.

Well that's a really nice token! Just out of curiousity, what did the toad ring up on your E-trac?...
Congratulations on a super productive hunt!

Thanks Silvermonkey

The toad was a surprise when it crawled out of the loamy soil, I picked the little fellow up and gave it a few strokes on the back, and set it down again.
Can't tell you what the number was, but the hole produced a rose headed nail-so it was a high chirper.
 

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