curbdiggercarl57
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Between my DFX's 6x9 coil crapping out, both sets of my good headphones being sent to Koss for repair, and The Dark One just plain kicking my butt detecting-wise, life's seen better days. We've been traveling hundreds of miles to ghost towns and mining camps, where in a total of five trips, I've managed to dig one Indian Head cent. One. He, on the other hand, manages to dig up Seated, key-date V-Nickels, and some of the prettiest Shield nickels that I've ever seen dug.
I've not been in a good mood lately.
So with one day remaining before my work week starts, I decided to do the old tried and true method of my madness, filling the car with gas, and driving endlessly up and down the streets of Denver. Hitting an area that I rarely drive through, I found a street of houses built in the 1920's, with one torn down. Normally I look for at turn of the century buildings, but being desperate for anything, I gave it a go.
These are the results.
They are from Washington Park, one of the older parks. Built in 1899, and Smith Lake, where most of the swimming was centered, opened in 1911. They are uni-faced, token planchets, and say "Washington Park, Bathing Suit".
Stuart's Colorado token book does list these, but at the time of his writing, only one was known to exist. Yeah!
The Wheaties are 1918, 1923, and the Indian is an 1890.
The tooth was a added bonus.
Carl
I've not been in a good mood lately.
So with one day remaining before my work week starts, I decided to do the old tried and true method of my madness, filling the car with gas, and driving endlessly up and down the streets of Denver. Hitting an area that I rarely drive through, I found a street of houses built in the 1920's, with one torn down. Normally I look for at turn of the century buildings, but being desperate for anything, I gave it a go.
These are the results.
They are from Washington Park, one of the older parks. Built in 1899, and Smith Lake, where most of the swimming was centered, opened in 1911. They are uni-faced, token planchets, and say "Washington Park, Bathing Suit".
Stuart's Colorado token book does list these, but at the time of his writing, only one was known to exist. Yeah!
The Wheaties are 1918, 1923, and the Indian is an 1890.
The tooth was a added bonus.
Carl
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sounds like plehbah
