Two interesting finds at parents yard today.

[frogginfish]

Two interesting finds at parent's yard today.

Had a few minutes to kill before I left to pick up my son after mowing grass at parent's house this morning.
Both of these were within 5 feet of each other and about 5-7 inches down.
They are pretty corroded...any tips on what I could do to clean them up better??

 

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[frogginfish]

They were found in the town of Sullivan, which I can see part of that on one of the coins.

Thanks for looking and happy hunting!

 

[david680]

Top piece is: THE FIRST / -.- / THOUGHT / IN BURNS / UNGUENTINE / N.P. CO. / THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. NEWARK, N.J. (TC-217491) Norwich, Connecticut (New London), U.S.A.

Nice piece and can be dated to 1900. The other piece I didn't find anything that helped out. It appears to have a 50 cent denomination and to say Sullivan. Tokecatalog didn't have any Sullivan listings that appeared to me to help. If you can get it cleaned up and find a few more details it would be interesting to find out.

 

[vpnavy]

Great find! Thanks for sharing...

 

[frogginfish]

Top piece is: THE FIRST / -.- / THOUGHT / IN BURNS / UNGUENTINE / N.P. CO. / THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. NEWARK, N.J. (TC-217491) Norwich, Connecticut (New London), U.S.A.

Nice piece and can be dated to 1900. The other piece I didn't find anything that helped out. It appears to have a 50 cent denomination and to say Sullivan. Tokecatalog didn't have any Sullivan listings that appeared to me to help. If you can get it cleaned up and find a few more details it would be interesting to find out.

That is amazing that you found that!!!!
Thank you!

I will surely try to clean them up better and send you the results.

 

[frogginfish]

Edit: definitely my oldest find yet! Too bad it wasn't in that condition.

 

[jewelerguy]

doesn't look like your soil likes tokens very well. cool finds, even though in rough shape

 

[frogginfish]

No...not at all. But still very nice to find!

 

[Pointman]

Toothbrush and water and a little bit of soap. Where it is really corroded, you can buy some silver testing acid and place a few drops of that and water on it and let it soak for a little while and then rinse. I would be careful in using the acid on something really nice and be careful with your hands. You could probably use anything that is acidic, but I would think that it would take something stronger then lemon juice to clean it.

 

[frogginfish]

I did a little googling and found that the smaller token is from O. M. Patton poultry in Sullivan, Indiana. I don't know what year (s) it would be from though.
I'm guessing late 1800s to early 1900s.