Nice spill tonight - tokens, a coin, and some jewelry

TrpnBils · Feb 20, 2017

Got out tonight to a house I've hit once before. Last time I was there I got a silver Washington quarter and a couple of tokens which was cool, but a little disappointing because the house dates back to the early 1800s. Tonight I stuck to the same small section of yard I hit before but I slowed WAY down and worked around iron...the thing that surprised me most was that I didn't bother to change to my small coil because the 3030's stock coil was doing great. In about a 5x5 area (that I'm not sure how I missed last time), I found 16 orchard tokens (gave some to the homeowner). All are stamped with either MB or M BROS as you can see, some are numbered (number of bushels/buckets harvested), and some are different designs. I'm assuming based on the different versions that these may represent a wide span of time that they were in use, although I would be willing to bet they were all dropped at the same time. Along with those I dug an 1880 IHP at the same depth in the same area, so I'm assuming that roughly dates the tokens as well. I'm in touch with the historical society right now about trying to track down what exactly this orchard was or who the M BROS might be.

Also found nearby was the heart/key pendant and the other thing which I'm assuming might have been a tie clip. It appears to be gilded, but there are no markings on it.

vpnavy · Feb 21, 2017

Nice finds Jeff!

trapperart · Feb 21, 2017

Nice stuff congrats

JeffInMass · Feb 21, 2017

Nice work repeating the area you had already gone over- I do it all the time- it's amazing how much you miss the first time- Congrats!!

-- Jeff --

TrpnBils · Feb 21, 2017

JeffInMass said:
Nice work repeating the area you had already gone over- I do it all the time- it's amazing how much you miss the first time- Congrats!!

-- Jeff --

I guarantee I know what the problem was the first time.... literally the first target I dug last time was that silver Washington and I think I had that "silver mindset" burned into my brain the rest of the time there. Got a lot of wheats (which I didn't dig any of yesterday) but no more silver. I think I was just inadvertently skipping these targets because they were in a lower range. Depending on the shape of these, they were coming in between about 12-25 and 12-35.