Indians, Swastikas, and Wheat!

[RatRacer]

Lucy and I were at her parents' farm this evening, and I got about an hour of detecting in. Went to where the old one-room school used to be with the Viper Trident. I found a bucket full of fence wire, and pieces of that blasted iron stove again! Lucy came up, and started searching with the Ace 250. Within 30 seconds she got a solid hit. I gave her the shovel, and she dug her first entirely solo find! It was... a piece of fence wire.
She kept searching the lower edge of where the school was, and I moved up the yard. Got a "multi" target, dug up... a piece of fence wire! Right next to it, however, was this big, round, milled-edge disc, the size of a half dollar! OHBOYOHBOYOHBOY! RAN to the house, kitchen sink, carefully rinsed the dirt, and saw a... SWASTIKA?
On the front was a horse, with "JULY 1910" under it (Pre-Nazi). Hmmm. Put it in some olive oil, went back out. Lucy had found another solid hit, dug up a penny! Her first coin ever! She went to the house to clean it. Was getting dark, but I swept about 8" from my earlier hole, found another penny!
We cleaned up, put coins in oil, came home. Careful cleaning revealed mine to be a 1902 Indianhead, my first IH, and Lucy's to be a 1919 Wheat!
The Swastika coin turned out to be an advertising medal for "Excelsior" Boy Scout Shoes! Found one like it on Ebay, and found a neat story on "Historical Boy's Uniforms."
The Swastika says "GOOD LUCK" above it, and it was right!

 

[RatRacer]

Penny Pics

 

[Boobydoo]

Nice digs. Congrats on the awesome "firsts".

The "swastica" symbol was actually a native american "good luck" symbol but the Natzi's made it such a hated symbol forever.

We have an old high school from the 20's in our area (an administration building now) located on Chief Pontiac Trail that had this symbol in the tile design on the floor at the front enterance. Of course, now they have a heavy large carpet that covers it all the time so no one could see it.

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[RatRacer]

It's actually an extremely old design, dating to Neolithic Eurasia (8000 BC!) but will never rid itself of those few years of misuse by a madman. Pity.
Thanks, Bdoo!

 

[Mirage]

Congratulations on some firsts! Indian heads are cool. Wish they came out of the ground a little better though. Those good luck tokens come in all varieties don't they. Good stuff. Still more waiting for you.....

Mirage

 

[Southcacalaky]

Not a bad job at all, Keep on diggin, Art...

 

[bazinga]

That's an old Boy Scout token that was given away when they purchased a pair of Excelsior shoes. I have found 2 of them so far this year.

 

[Postalrevnant]

That boy scouts coin is really cool. Have never seen one before like it. Congratulations on the finds.

Postalrevnant

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Congrats on the nice finds! I've seen a swastika on the side of a 2000 year old Roman vase, the swastika has been used as a symbol of power and luck for around 3000 years and Hitler killed it. HH, Mike

 

[RatRacer]

Cool Token!! And nice coins! Congrats! Do you have a link to the story on "Historical Boy's Uniforms."

http://www.histclo.com/youth/youth/org/sco/country/us/gar/us-shoe.htm (This one's server might be down)
http://members.aol.com/randywoo/bsahis/coin.htm

Thanks for the interest! -RR

 

[lucky1777]

Very nice finds, congratulations on your Indian.

 

[Blackjack77]

very nice finds- My first IH was a 1902- terrible shape . Actually that was My first Coin come to think of it. Got Me hooked on MDing. Keep it up- -HH

 

[Ole Mole]

Nice finds you have there.

I had learned from previous posts that the Swastika was indeed a Good Thing at one time until the Nazi's used it as their symbol. It's a shame that it was turned into and is considered a symbol of hatred now.

Keep up the good finds and good luck.

 

[groundfisher]

Cool token! I like the historical background on it. Congrats on the firsts for both of you!
Working through the fence wire is worth the time.Keep up the great job! HH!