I.F.O.s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature/UPDATED PICS OF TOKEN

[daytondigger]

I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature/UPDATED PICS OF TOKEN

I met crazyjarhead up at my honey hole today. The trip up was making me think I must be an "Idiot From Ohio" as some of us in the caving hobby have been called.

When I left Dayton there was barely any snow or ice, but by the time I pulled into the hunt site it was a different story.

We decided to give her a go anyways. The open fields had a couple inches or more of snow and ice which seemed to insulate the ground from last nights arctic temps. Scan the top of the ice, here a signal, stomp the ice and scrape away with your boot was the routine. Ground was easy digging. I scored first with an awesome Union Pacific token from 1934.

That's when we zoomed in on this fairly untouched area. Ron started into an area just inches from where I had changed directions and scored in a big way, I'll let him share his story with you. I found three mercs, 1945, '42 and a '26.

I said to Ron it would be nice to find a silver quarter and not long after, I spied something bigger than a dime shining in my hole.

The take for me was 3 mercs, 1 '45-S quarter, 2 buffaloes(one in the same hole as the '26 merc which gave me a tab reading from most angles), 2 wheats, an awesome token and the usual clad.

NEW Token PICS added

 

[homer007]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature

yep

ILL JUST SAY THIS.......................... YALL ARE CRAZY . THATS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COLD . MORE OF A MAN THEN ME.. .. CONGRAD.. KEEP THE PICS COMEING

Ah, you're just spoiled being that far south of us. You'll probably feel more comfortable in the heat than I do.

 

[kdismuke1]

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GREAT SILVER AND TOKEN FIND. BEST OF LUCK IN THE SNOW.

 

[daytondigger]

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You guys are making an Ohio boy proud I'll tell ya!!

Thanks Jerry, I was off today, but the extra snow convinced me to stay home and catch up on things.

 

[crazyjarhead]

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You guys are making an Ohio boy proud I'll tell ya!!

Thanks Jerry. Maybe we can meet up this year and do a small group hunt

 

[dave-enc]

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wtg on the finds sure makes me appreciate the 40's and 50's here
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[daytondigger]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature

that is a neat railroad token...

I love it, I'm a big railroad buff, especially the L&N, but you've probably never heard of the L&N.

 

[daytondigger]

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Great silver finds! The token is very cool.

Thank You, I wish I was in Alabama right now. We've got another winter weather advisory for more snow and below zero by the end of the week.

 

[silverfreak]

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Geez....you guys are nuttier than I am

 

[daytondigger]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature

Geez....you guys are nuttier than I am

That just can't be right.

 

[UTcoinshootR]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature

pure dedication. You know those things will still be there this spring right? Haha, just kidding. Awesome digs and the railroad token is just plain neat.

 

[thrillathahunt]

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WOW.....I gotta try that sometime!!! That looks like fun!

 

[daytondigger]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature

pure dedication. You know those things will still be there this spring right? Haha, just kidding. Awesome digs and the railroad token is just plain neat.

In the Spring we may still be there or we may move on to greener pastures.

 

[daytondigger]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature

WOW.....I gotta try that sometime!!! That looks like fun!

In Ohio we do it just to ward off cabin fever, in Texas you probably do it just for fun. Man I wish I lived further south in the winter.

 

[daytondigger]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature/UPDATED PICS OF TOKEN

I added some new pics of the Union Pacific token up with the story. It's in really nice shape, most alluminum tokens I dig are suffering from alluminum rot.

 

[creskol]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature/UPDATED PICS OF TOKEN

I added some new pics of the Union Pacific token up with the story. It's in really nice shape, most alluminum tokens I dig are suffering from alluminum rot.

Those are some beautiful finds .. some of which you just never see! Thanks for sharing those with us!

 

[NGE]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature/UPDATED PICS OF TOKEN

daytondigger, here is the Union Pacific aluminum token I found in the past, yours is older, mine is 1940..........NGE

 

[DigginThePast]

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Great tokens!

 

[wirebender]

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hey I have one of those also!! Mine I inherited it from my grandfather

 

[NGE]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature/UPDATED PICS OF TOKEN

apparently popular tokens by the looks of it.......NGE

 

[thrillathahunt]

Re: I.F.O.'s from OH have good day despite Mother Nature/UPDATED PICS OF TOKEN

How did you get that aluminum token to clean up so well? I have never been able to clean alum without scratching the heck out of it!!!