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Old woods produces--now 173 tokens!--- 6th hunt update

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6th hunt update

Spent 2 hours at the token woods today. I tried to stay away but the nudie tokens were calling to me like a sweet Sirens song. I thought I wouldn't go back to these woods after my goal of 100 tokens was met, but I can't help but wonder "how many could really be there?". I found another 45 today, for a total of 173, and a nice mens silver band that fits perfect.


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I had a hour or so to kill before picking up my daughter from school, and I've been looking at a small wooded area that is next to an old railway line that is now a prairie path for hikers/bikers. No sooner that I entered what seemed to be a path or deer run and starting getting hits every foot or so. They VDI'd at 71 on my DFX and were solid coin size signals. In 10 mins I had 9 tokens in the pouch and was so bewildered about what was happening I stopped to call Rootmaster about my new site. I told him that at this rate I'll probably bag at least 20 of these before I had to go. As It turned out 14 of them were the Wednesday Company type and 9 were the Heads I win, Tails you lose, nudie type tokens. Haven't been able to trace the source of the Wednesday Company tokens,..anybody seen these before?
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2nd hunt UPDATE
Well after finding 23 tokens in the small woods i couldn't resist getting back to see just how many more could still be hiding there! Finds were a bit slower than yesterday at first. But then they started pouring in again
The 28 tokens found today were of the same variety as yesterdays 23...nudies and Wednesday Company. Also dug a cool little bell and a silver plate tablespoon. So in 2 days now, the token total is at 51. Maybe not banner material, but kinda cool.
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3rd hunt UPDATE
Well after finding 51 tokens in two hunts at the small woods, I had to get back there to see if there were any left. Its been raining here overnight, so rather than wading through the wet vegetation in the woods, I figured I would start where I left off yesterday, a grassy area next to where I park. I immediately started getting hits and digging tokens. No clad, no junk, just tokens! What the heck is going on here?, they're everywhere I turn. When I knew I had about a dozen I decided to head off away from this area and see if I could find a place that was clean of tokens. So I head for the prairie path which starts at the edge of the woods. Walking behind the sign that shows the map of the path, I get another 71 VDI and dig not one but 10 more tokens. In all, for today's hour long hunt I came away with another 25 tokens. This brings my total to 76 tokens for 3 short hunts. I have no idea why there are so many here, but I know this area hasn't been detected in recent years. Most of them were around 4" deep today.
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4th hunt UPDATE
Had a great day today! It started off by finding a first for me. I went with Rootmaster (aka #1 son) to an old farm site that I obtained permission to hunt that is less than a quarter mile down the road from the token woods. First signal and I popped up a 1924 Merc from only 3".
After a great hunt there I wanted to go to the token woods to see if RM and I could score another 24 tokens to make it an even 100 in 4 hunts. I figured with his help this time we should have no problem accomplishing this with only about a hour of daylight left. Within 5 mins I had my first 2 tokens and when I had my third pinpointed I figured I would let Rootmaster hear what they sounded like on his SE Pro before I dug it, so he could know what to listen for. Well he was up in the woods digging up a dog collar that he soon found out was connected to what was left of Fido. Man, I'm glad I missed that signal over the last 3 hunts. Well when he came over I told him to dig the token and he could have it. When he popped up a forth variety, (way to risque to post a pic of here) I promptly confiscated it, being a good Dad and all. The tokens finds were getting slimmer and I was wondering if we were going to get the quota of 24 that I was hoping for. Then I headed down the prairie path a bit and hit a nice 71 VDI on the DFX. Shabam! 16 tokens in one hole! Well I went back to the van to count up what we had. I had 21 in the pouch and RM had 0. I guess that proves that a Minelab will just not find junk, no matter how hard you try. So after a 4th hunt the woods have produced 97 tokens.
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5th hunt UPDATE
I'm sure you guys are getting sick of hearing about the token woods , but not as sick as I am about digging so many of them. I only stopped there today to get another 3 so that I could say that I found an even 100 there. Well I had 3 in the first 3 minutes so I might as well see what I can pull again from here. I started walking down the trail where I found the 16 in one hole and about halfway there I hit a signal that I missed before. Turned out to be 20 tokens in one hole! I left with another 31 in the pouch to make a total of 128 now from the old token woods.
 

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Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

still an awesome find. way to go
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

someone dumped them maybe :icon_scratch:
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

Nice finds congrats :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
Re: Thursday TOKEN MADNESS!!!!!!

BANNER!!!!!!!!! :icon_king:

Hopefully I can get out there and score me a nudie token before they are all gone! I'm going to stick my neck out and bet there must be at least 100 tokens there! Let's go get 'em!

Awexome finds!!!!!
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

There are 'pocket spills' and there are caches...but this is in a category all by itself!

What was going on in those woods?? :icon_scratch:

Fun finds, and it appears they can turn into CASH for you, too!

Born Free
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

Wow, what a haul of tokens for two days. Some kids must have used them for play money a long time ago. Wife said her and brother would use Washington State tax tokens for play money and throw them over the bridge into the local river.

Keep up the great digs... :thumbsup:
 

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Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

Born Free said:
There are 'pocket spills' and there are caches...but this is in a category all by itself!

What was going on in those woods?? :icon_scratch:

Fun finds, and it appears they can turn into CASH for you, too!

Born Free

To give you a better idea, this wooded area is very small and probably less than 2 acres. At first I also thought, "just some kids pocket spill" as the first 9 tokens were within a 6' diameter area. But as I walked around more, no matter where I went I was picking up one or two at random. That's just about how it went yesterday. As I started again today it was once again just randomly getting one here and there. I would be walking down a path and every now and then pushing the coil into the thicket on either side and would get a signal. For those who don't own a DFX, you can lock it in on pinpoint mode or all metal, and get VDI target readouts. About 20 mins into the hunt I scored 6 of them around a small tree, no taller than 15', not really a climbing type tree. At times I felt like someone ( maybe evil Leprechauns) had planted these and were waiting in the bushes to laugh at the MD'er guy squealing like a little girl every time he found another planted spill. So after a another handful of individual finds I decided to call it quits and maybe leave some finds for the Rootmaster (aka #1 son). As I approached my van in the parking lot I crossed a small grassy patch and hit another 71 VDI. I then pulled 10 tokens from a 2 sq.ft. area just using the Sunray probe to locate them. Crazy I know...never seen anything like it.

I wire brushed this one up for a pocket carry for the next time a cute tot lot mom asks if I've found anything good.
 

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Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

is it possible that the dirt was brought in from somewhere else as fill....maybe say from around an arcade or a place where they used to make tokens and these were trash overflows that got mixed in and spread around :icon_scratch:
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

have the same heads or tails token btw
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

like to know the story how they got there.congrats!
 
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mistergee said:
is it possible that the dirt was brought in from somewhere else as fill....maybe say from around an arcade or a place where they used to make tokens and these were trash overflows that got mixed in and spread around :icon_scratch:
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Its definitely not fill dirt. This area shows on the '39 Gov flyovers and hasn't changed since then. There are trees in there at least 150 yrs old and it had a connecting farm in 1939. The weird thing is the ground is clean of trash, just the occasional beer can here and there. No coins at all, I may had dug 3 Mem cents and a quarter. I did dig an axe head from about a foot down yesterday.
 

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Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

ccol
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

The story gets even more bizarre each time you go there!

You give that token to a little boy :o and he'll be begging his angry mother >:( for a metal detector! :D
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

OH YEAH ....There had to have been some action going on in those woods ;D I would have feel over, rushed home real fast to show my wife all those. Baby I found a bunch of nudie coins.. :tongue3:Sweet :thumbsup:
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

Maybe some kid was using them as sling shot ammo. Just a guess but I used to use flat washers or anything else I could find when I was a little freak of nature. I know of a small woods that must have 10 lbs of marbles scattered around in it thanks to my efforts as a kid. From the way you have described them being all spread out it sounds like the tokens were getting shot all over the place. Great find, go back and get some more.
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 2nd hunt update--now 51

Interesting finds! Never heard of the like.

My best theory is some place got ripped off and the thieves dumped the non-cash/tokens.
 
Re: Old woods produces 23 tokens!--- 3rd hunt update--now 76

Went for my third hunt at the token pit :icon_pirat: see update! Thanks
 

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