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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[eyemustdigtreasure]

Tokens can be very rare, as most are made limited in numbers and are usually locally distributed, too....
Great find - thanks for sharing!

 

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[Bigmike2334]

We get ya hook up sometime and pound some ground!!

 

[FreeBirdTim]

We get ya hook up sometime and pound some ground!!

I'm thinking about doing some old ballfields in CT in a few weeks, probably in Killingly. Might even check out Sterling and Moosup Valley as well. If the weather's decent and I can scout out some good spots, maybe we can give them a shot. I'll do some research and see what I can find.