Big Silver... Springs that is

[GatorBoy]

Got really excited for a minute when I saw this turns out it's a good luck token from Silver Springs Florida

 

[lookindown]

I like finding tokens more than I do finding coins...except for those dang gold colored Chuck E Cheese...cool find.

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks man.

 

[treblehunter]

Tokens are great finds
Florida Silver Springs Good Luck Token World Famous Glass Bottom Boats | eBay

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks for the link ....I can't tell you how much visions of this went through my head.

 

[cambria09]

Hello GatorBoy. Not what you were hoping but still a good find. Silver Springs has been an attraction for a long time...any idea on how old it is? Hope it brings you good luck. C9

 

[Fletch88]

It brings back memories of going to Six Gun Territory and Silver Springs when I was a kid in the 70's. Anyone know when SGT closed?

Nice finds GB!

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm not exactly sure of its age but I can say it was found close to and about the same depth as this 1925 buffalo nickel I found right before it.
Its not new I know that much

 

[GatorBoy]

It's Florida's oldest tourist attraction... The glass bottom boat tours started there in 1878 it was closed down September 15th 2013

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice digs.

Thank you.
You probably say that to everyone :-)

 

[Fletch88]

I didn't know it has closed as a tourist attraction and reopened as a state park. I visited it in 2008 with my kids.

 

[GatorBoy]

I actually think that's going to be great for the ecosystem in the area so much silt was being generated by all the commotion at that place it was deteriorating conditions in the spring run for a long long distance.
I only went there once and never went back to me it was a nightmare of screaming kids and vending machines.... nature area gone bad.. The spring didn't even look like a spring anymore looked like a concrete pond

 

[Fletch88]

All the local springs up this way are looking the same way without any human activity going on. According to the article below it is more related to growing agriculture and fertilizer runoff.

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/13/177105692/before-disney-floridas-silver-springs-lured-tourists

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks for the link

 

[DigIron2]

Nice finds,Bet you got a good rush off the token.

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks.. I did.

 

[Doc Arey]

Well now you will have "Good Luck" detecting!

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[WheatWaffle]

Nice find!