American Legion Medal, Boy Scout Token, & Silver Ring

[Ziggy-Grimm]

Went out and hit quite a few spots this weekend and also got to meet fellow local T-Netters Mike(MikeRo) & John(HighVDI) Saturday - Very nice guys & Fellow Equinox swingers! Other than clad I did terrible on coins but had a few cool finds.

1910 Boy Scouts token by an old home site in Greene County, Pa:



Silver Ring was snagged in front of a mid 1800s feed store in Fayette County, PA. Too bad the rock was missing :



Finally, My favorite find of the weekend was this American Legion medal from a convention held in Harrisburg, PA in 1930. I found it behind an 1800s school house in Fayette County, PA:



I can't find too much information about it but I did find a picture of one with the ribbon on Google image search:





Thanks for looking & Happy Hunting,
-ZiG

 

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[Johncoho]

Nice finds. Your medal appears to be made to be a watch fob. Cool find. Second thought it does appear to be a medal too.

 

[Colonial Digger]

Great, finds the Medal is awesome!

 

[Ziggy-Grimm]

Nice finds. Your medal appears to be made to be a watch fob. Cool find. Second thought it does appear to be a medal too.

My buddy Adam also said watch fob when I first dug it.

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, nice finds. Congrats

 

[ToddsPoint]

Your Boy Scout medal is from the first year it was formed...1910. Maybe has a little value? Gary

 

[WannaDig3687]

Cool finds. I find it interesting that the boy scouts used a swastika emblem. I may have to research that.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Ziggy-Grimm]

Cool finds. I find it interesting that the boy scouts used a swastika emblem. I may have to research that.

Swastikas in Scouting

 

[WannaDig3687]

Swastikas in Scouting

Thanks for sharing that. I never knew.

 

[Mudflap]

That Boy Scout token is a 1910 vintage like Toddspoint said. The swastika was a good luck symbol before Hitler made off with it. Nice find! When i used to live down that way, Green county was my favorite area to hunt.

 

[tnt-hunter]

If you travel in Asia you will see the swastika in a lot of places. It has been around for over a 1,000 years. It was a symbol of good fortune until it was adopted by the Nazi party and acquired a new evil meaning. Many early good luck tokens have the swastika, with a horseshoe, clover etc like the one on your token. If I am not mistaken your token was an advertising give away for a shoe company. It was not produced by the Boy Scouts.

Nice finds and good post. Keep swingin.

 

[MikeRo]

Cool finds Ziggy! Enjoyed getting together the other day & diggin some holes! Have to do it again sometime. Merry Christmas!

 

[A2coins]

Those are some cool finds cool token that medal is really nice great job. Happy Holidays

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very interesting finds, congrats!