curbdiggercarl57
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These are a few of the non coin items that I've dug in the last two weeks. A few at a time, but they add up. The Police looking shield commemorates the completion of, at that time, the longest bridge in North America. The Denver Gas & Electric Co. was built in 1910. The medal in the middle appears to be a 1920's era Egyptian good luck charm, made in America. And now for my favorite things to find, the tokens. The one on the far left is a Royal Cigar Store token, from around 1900-1910. The one in the middle is unknown, but will be a good one, if I can attribute it to a Colorado location. The style is from the 1880-1890's. Ah, but the last one, that's the good one.It had me stumped for a while. A few days ago a friend took myself and another buddy up to Leadville to hunt, where he had found some real nice artifacts, as well as a rare token from a ghost town that was near Leadville. We spent almost nine hours walking up and down the mountain side, with nothing to show for it but a great condition Barber dime. (Not my find, of course) At the very, and I mean very end of the day, while I was walking back to the truck, I saw this last token on the ground. It really looks like it has been exposed to the elements for decades. Barely able to read the writing on it, I attempted to clean it when I got home. I could make out some of the words, but barely. I could read "Evijan, and part, but not all, of the last name "Banjamm", which I mistook for a shortened or misspelled "Benjamin" The word on the bottom appeared to be "Town", but with the "O" having a slash run through it like the number 0 will have sometimes. Googleing the name got me nowhere, so I placed it with my other unknown tokens. Today I get a call from John, who asks me if the token might be spelled "Evijan Banjamn" I looked at it closely, and told him that was what it appeared to say. he then informed me that it was a "Bucktown" token, and I'm only the second person to have one. The Colorado Token Book, by Stuart Pritchard has it listed at $500-1000! I'm sure the other one is in better shape, but I've yet to find a token as valuable as this one! More importantly to me is it's the first truly "ghost town" token I've ever dug, mainly digging local Denver tokens. The area that we went to is now covered in about a foot of snow, so I have to wait a while before I can even think of going back up there. Man, do I love tokens!
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