cgdigger
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Hi everyone,
A little story, and then a request for assistance. The best detecting night of my life was in 1998, the night of the last episode of Seinfeld. I was stationed in Norfolk at the time, and our condo was right downtown. In the 50's and 60's, Norfolk, like so many older cities, engaged in urban renewal which consisted of razing entire city blocks of rowhouses and turning them into parking lots. Directly across from my condo were a couple of parking lots which, in 1998, were being dug up and converted into upscale apartments. As a newbie detector, I had swung my pretty unsophisticated detector in those construction areas, and found a few things, but they were pretty trashy and hard to dig and detect. On the night in question, on my way home from work, I noticed that they had gone down maybe a foot below the surface of the rest of the lot in a swath maybe 20 x 100 feet or so on one end of the lot. I took note of that, and thought that might present a good opportunity. But my wife and I watched the Seinfeld episode together which ended around 9, and I was kind of lazy and was debating whether to go or not. But finally, I mustered the energy, and headed over to the lot at 930-10 PM. Boy, am I glad I did! It was detecting nirvana. Signals were few and far between, but when I got something, it was a relic - and old. I found a beautiful large cent (1820) and a bunch of War of 1812-era buttons, which I'll be posting in the next few days. I stayed out there until, like, 2 or 3 AM, and in retrospect, should have stayed out there all night long.
Anyhow, I also found a bunch of these tokens. They're very light and unusual for what I assume is something quite old. They almost feel like aluminum. They were found along with all the other relics. Unfortunately, they're corroding badly. I've always wondered what they were. Any thoughts? As you can see, picture 1 is a close-up of one of the tokens, and you can see the word "token" and a symbol. Picture 2 is of all the tokens I found that night. Thanks, Andy
A little story, and then a request for assistance. The best detecting night of my life was in 1998, the night of the last episode of Seinfeld. I was stationed in Norfolk at the time, and our condo was right downtown. In the 50's and 60's, Norfolk, like so many older cities, engaged in urban renewal which consisted of razing entire city blocks of rowhouses and turning them into parking lots. Directly across from my condo were a couple of parking lots which, in 1998, were being dug up and converted into upscale apartments. As a newbie detector, I had swung my pretty unsophisticated detector in those construction areas, and found a few things, but they were pretty trashy and hard to dig and detect. On the night in question, on my way home from work, I noticed that they had gone down maybe a foot below the surface of the rest of the lot in a swath maybe 20 x 100 feet or so on one end of the lot. I took note of that, and thought that might present a good opportunity. But my wife and I watched the Seinfeld episode together which ended around 9, and I was kind of lazy and was debating whether to go or not. But finally, I mustered the energy, and headed over to the lot at 930-10 PM. Boy, am I glad I did! It was detecting nirvana. Signals were few and far between, but when I got something, it was a relic - and old. I found a beautiful large cent (1820) and a bunch of War of 1812-era buttons, which I'll be posting in the next few days. I stayed out there until, like, 2 or 3 AM, and in retrospect, should have stayed out there all night long.
Anyhow, I also found a bunch of these tokens. They're very light and unusual for what I assume is something quite old. They almost feel like aluminum. They were found along with all the other relics. Unfortunately, they're corroding badly. I've always wondered what they were. Any thoughts? As you can see, picture 1 is a close-up of one of the tokens, and you can see the word "token" and a symbol. Picture 2 is of all the tokens I found that night. Thanks, Andy
