Diggers Token

[MKW]

While I was out today at one of my colonial sites, I found a KG and Ringy Trade Dollar. After research, it seems they would bury these at sites they detected for future detectorists to find. I found it about 12" down in a field. I was initially disappointed knowing that they had been to this field detecting, but I have found lots of colonial era buttons and 2 colonial coppers today, so they didn't get it all. Pretty cool find, to me.

 

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[Tony in SC]

I was never impressed with their style of detecting!

 

[crashbandicoot]

Semper Fi,bud!

 

[AJH]

Semper Fi!

 

[Noah_D]

Not colonial but it's still neat! I kind of want to start leaving something like that places...

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[jeff of pa]

While I was out today at one of my colonial sites, I found a KG and Ringy Trade Dollar. After research, it seems they would bury these at sites they detected for future detectorists to find. I found it about 12" down in a field. I was initially disappointed knowing that they had been to this field detecting, but I have found lots of colonial era buttons and 2 colonial coppers today, so they didn't get it all. Pretty cool find, to me.

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cool find ! at least ya Know if they hunted there, They missed allot

probably too busy hanging from trees or Need Minelabs

 

[pepperj]

I never heard of these before-so I just had to find out the 5 W's of them. (Reality TV/video so maybe it's because I never went the Garrett route)

So you have one of the 1000 minted and in total there seems to be a total 39,000

Shows that one can't get it all, and they sucked at trying.

 

[Mackaydon]

Q and A to Q #11 here (Ringmaster Tim) answers several questions about the token--including its history.
Don...

 

[Trezurehunter]

That is a neat token find, knowing they were there before you (and missed some stuff) !

 

[MKW]

It's weird to think that some fellas from Montana/Arizona ended up in this little field in the middle of nowhere in SC. It does have significant history though.

 

[oldmxrat]

I find these faux Chinese coins around Lake Tahoe from time to time from previous detectorists. They're like 100 for $10 online.

 

[ben ohio]

Not colonial but it's still neat! I kind of want to start leaving something like that places...

i dug up a mole once .i filled it with pennies from my pocket they were copper in the old days.put it back in the hole.a friend of mine dug it up a few weeks later.it was really funny.