Thought I had my first silver dollar, but not quite:-(

[DrDetector]

With the last decent day this year (at least with my busy schedule coming up), I headed out to a location where a Boy Scout camp was which was abandoned around the 1960s. The whole area is now woods. Halfdime knows the place;-). I decided to hit up a different section of the woods with some evidence of grass, so I thought it was probably a field back in the day. First signal was a +94 on my XLT, which is around a silver dollar reading. Just under the thin layer of grassy dirt was a layer of light gravel. I flipped out the first inch or two of this and a large silver disc came out and flipped onto the side of my hole. I saw a reeded edge, and a dirty silver coin the size of a dollar. Yes, folks, I really was convinced I had found my first silver dollar! Now was it a Morgan or a Peace!?! Waaaaiiiitttt....why does my silver dollar have a big 'Burger King' logo on it? Reality set it. I had only found a Burger King token from 1983 good for one FREE Breakfast beverage with any purchase. Crap! Probably dropped by a hunter back in the '80s.

Slightly disappointed, I head down to the creek running through the site. I was working my way up the creek for a little bit, walking through the frigid water in my waterproof boots (a necessity this time of year). I got a half dollar signal this time in the gravel just on the edge of the water. As I started to move the gravel, the water filled up my digging location. So I was kind of blindly pulling out scoops of gravel and mud, but this next token came up from only about 2 inches down. Does anyone know ANYTHING about it at all? I can't find anything out about it. It was found outside Pittsburgh, PA and is slightly larger than a half dollar.

Kept looking around for a few hours but only came up with a newer Lincoln Memorial Cent, a bunch of shotgun shells and this 'DEER-COY' object, presumably dropped by a hunter, but I can't figure out how it works or what you do with it.

Any help on that one would be great, too!

Good luck to all in 2008!

 

[DrDetector]

Nice collection of dug tokens, friend. Maybe that creekbed kept some corrosion off of mine but the price was the star in the middle. Seems these were pretty popular back in the day.

 

[ivan salis]

the token was most likely made at a fair or local store where the machines were kept -- the center might have been shot out --- doing some target shooting a center hit with a bullet would rip away the star center part easily --- Ivan

 

[roundhat]

that King.... he's a dirty trickster.