Found a coin purse with seated in it!

[IAMZIM]

Found a coin purse with seated in it! Update on token.

Short and sweet, found a coin purse in a mucky swampy spot that had seated dimes , a barber , Indians, a token, and an Italian coin. Trying to post this with my phone , hope it works. ..I had time to research the token in the group this morning at the archives, here is what I found...1896 Directory A saloon run by Thomas Pooley in Burlington MT, I found this coin purse "in" Burlington, which no longer exists, other than a few stone foundations and some sagebrush....The Anaconda standard. (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970 Also here in the Anaconda standard August 31st, 1896, page 6, the saloon is listed in a political article. And, it seems later that Thomas Pooley moved his saloon to Butte, and got himself into quite a bit of trouble! Apparently he had a feud with his son-in-law, and ended up killing both his daughter and his son-in-law.... Daily inter mountain. (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901,The Butte inter mountain. (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, Lots of interesting history on him, makes the token ALOT more interesting now!

 

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[oxbowbarefoot]

excellent!

 

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[The Aluminum Monster]

That is insane! Super cool find. Congrats!

 

[TheRingFinder]

Ahh, great find dude!!! I once found an old purse with exactly 1 dollar in change. Barbers, Indian heads, buffalos - and 1 foreign coin. I wonder if that was the practice back then, to keep 1 coin from the homeland with you?

 

[mikefromIllinois]

Nice. That would have been a chunk of change to have lost back then. Congrats.

 

[thewatchers]

Amazing find. I'm squinting as hard as one can and still can't make out all the dates. Care to list the years and mints when you get a chance.

 

[IAMZIM]

I was so worried about being able to post with my phone I totally forgot about posting dates.... here goes: 1890 , 1887 ,& 2 1882 for the seated coin's, no mint marks. 1893 "o" barber ,1896 ,1887 &1879 for the Indian Head pennies, 1893 V nickel, and an 1862 "5" centesimi from Italy I think?

 

[IAMZIM]

Very cool... I wonder how all those items ended up in a swampy area. But then again maybe it wasn't swampy back then. But very cool guy and some easy digging also!!!

Not really a Swamp per say , it was next to a tiny Creek about a foot wide , and a little bit "mucky" around it , I was actually walking across to the other side of the little coulie to detect a few foundations on the other side and had my detector on. After I found the purse , I went up and down quite the length of the creek, but just found a lot of junk....

 

[fredbug 67]

Very nice recovery! What a treat to get all those great coins in one hole! Nice work!

 

[Sleepy]

Awesome!

 

[Obelix]

Great hunt, congrats.

 

[Argentium]

What kind of signal did you get with this find ? skitzy , or pretty solid ?

( I too think this is Banner worthy - voting now !)

 

[K1DDO1979]

What kind of signal did you get with this find ? skitzy , or pretty solid ?

Im betting on a steady high pitch on that one. Could be wrong though! [emoji2]

 

[against the wind]

Definitely a find that is on everyone's wish list.
BANNER

 

[Goldiver]

That's just too cool! Who doesn't want to find a coin purse with Seated Liberty coins in it? Nice variety of coins too.

Steve

 

[bigfoot1]

I believe I would find a way to display it together(shadow box).very interesting find and I too am voting banner...

 

[sutphin]

DANG NOW THATS A HECK OF A FIND ...

 

[IAMZIM]

What kind of signal did you get with this find ? skitzy , or pretty solid ?

I was using my AT Gold, and it was a weird "skitzy" signal for sure, (I like that description lol) it was definitely loud and insistent though!

 

[Z.K.]

Banner vote coming in from me, coinpurse brother.

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Even better find knowing the story behind it ! Big congrats on that bucket list find

 

[Gridwalker306]

Man that's too cool! I've found the remnants of old coin purses before, sadly all have been void of coins so far.