Found my oldest token ever! 1833 Robinson's Jones & Co Trade Token Attleboro, MA!

[FreeBirdTim]

What happens when 18 inches of snow melts in a few days? The ground gets REALLY saturated and the old coins start to pop up! It was 65 today and most of the snow was history, so I headed for one of my old spots. This spot has given up a 1798 LC, an 1864 two cent piece and 3 IHC's from the 1860's. Plus a few musket balls to boot.

Unfortunately, my reward for two hours of muddy detecting was a whopping 14 cents in clad! But my very last find made up for it. It was around 9 inches down and rang up as an 85. I was thinking LC or maybe a silver quarter, but it turned out to be a token. I dipped it in a puddle to clean it up, but I still couldn't read what was on it. So I put it in my Altoids mint box and decided to call it a day.

Long story short, it ended up being a trade token from 1833! A Robinson's Jones & Co token from Attleboro, Massachusetts. My oldest token by about 100 years! Not a really rare token, but I'll bet not too many have been dug up over the years.

Here's a few pics. I didn't clean it up much because I didn't want to mess with a 184 year old token! It's in pretty good shape, though.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice token find!

 

[Mackaydon]

Great find !!
https://www.catawiki.com/catalog/to...-ma-hard-times-token-robinson-s-jones-co-1833

Don....

 

[Mackaydon]

Some additional history:
TheAmerican Institute of the City of New York was a civic organizationthat existed from 1829 to 1930, and awarded medals of recognition toinventors, scientists, and agriculturalists in gold, silver, andbronze. Robinson's Jones & Co. received one of their awards fortheir button manufacturing, and proudly reproduced the obverse of themedal they were awarded on this Hard Times Token (such tokens beingone of the other things they made, besides buttons)
Source: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=162290
Don......

 

[Scrappy]

That's a beautiful token Tim. I'm glad the snow melted and the stars aligned. The condition is phenomenal

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's a very cool token. It is always a welcome surprise when a great item slips in at the end to save the day. Congrats!

 

[Relicific]

Old tokens are so much fun to find.
That one is a beauty
Congrats

 

[Wildcat1750]

Congrats on a Very nice token!

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Thanks, guys! Should have called it a hard times token. Thanks for all that info, Don!

 

[against the wind]

Sweet token,,
Congratulations

 

[highnam]

Awesome token, great shape, full of history

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[JeffInMass]

Weather's been amazing for us Free Bird- Congrats on the awesome token!

-- Jeff --

 

[treblehunter]

Awesome find, I like that better than a 1829 LC any day of the week, very cool.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Weather's been amazing for us Free Bird- Congrats on the awesome token!

Thanks! Can't believe how fast the snow disappeared and the ground thawed. A lot colder this morning, but still not bad. Another good day to go metal detecting!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on a very nice token

 

[Loco-Digger]

It's not often you can pull a dated token. That one's a keeper for sure.

 

[Bigmike2334]

Awesome find brother! I found mine in Lincoln RI and found a button to go with it at a second Lincoln site, Awesome!

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Awesome find brother! I found mine in Lincoln RI and found a button to go with it at a second Lincoln site, Awesome

Thanks, Mike! I found mine in Glocester at a field I've done at least 20 times! Hard to believe I missed this huge token that many times, but it was very deep. Nothing brings out those old coppers better than saturated ground. HH.

 

[Steve in PA]

Very cool toke, especially since it's for a button manufacturer. I found an 1836 R & W Robinson token. Here's mine along with a picture of a non-dug one.