I keep hitting token spills this year....

TrpnBils · May 10, 2017

This photo represents token numbers 39-47 this year amounting to 4 spills plus random singles or pairs found. The tokens on the left and middle-right are picker tokens from apple orchards that were in heavy use up through the 50s or so. The token on the far right has the name of a guy I was able to track down living about 30 minutes from here (he's in his 80s - haven't stopped by yet to talk to him or show him but I plan on it). The dime is a '53, and the buttons are old....there was a back mark on the one when it had a nice, dark green patina on it immediately after coming out of the ground and then before my eyes I saw the patina degrade into a nasty, mottled mess and now I can't even hardly tell there was anything there. I plan on doing electrolysis on it to see if I can get the back mark out of it again to get an approximate date (although I suspect 1800s). This site goes back to the 1750s and is the same one I dug the counterfeit 1775 KGIII at a couple of weeks ago.

MackinawGirl · May 10, 2017

I have found two this year already too. Hey I love the quote: Paying off my detector one penny at a time

TrpnBils · May 10, 2017

MackinawGirl said:
I have found two this year already too. Hey I love the quote: Paying off my detector one penny at a time

Yeah I really should change that - I put that there 12 years ago when I joined this site and I was primarily a clad stabber. Now maybe if I could pay it off in rusty nails and junk I'd be a millionaire.

dirtlooter · May 10, 2017

love the tokens!

TrpnBils · May 10, 2017

This place has been nuts for the tokens - I've pulled something like 20 or so in the past three visits, and another friend of mine and a buddy of his dug probably another dozen or so out of there last year. Along with all that has been 2 NJ coppers, a counterfeit 1775 KG, a few mercs, a barber dime, a ton of wheats, a V nickel, a buffalo nickel, and two Swiss coins. Quite a variety, but it's weird....nothing from 1800-1900 at all. We're wondering if maybe the original cabin that was there was abandoned at some point and the property was uninhabited for a time between the original structure and the current one.

Edit: Plus a 10k class ring from 1955 I dug last time I was there.