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Well, that's what run through my mind when I first saw it anyway.

I went to a place I call the hills for a short hunt before dinner last night. I was digging the normal clad and some trash when all of the sudden BAM!!! I got a very strong +89, it was bouncing between quarter and half, man I was excited to dig this one. I thought for sure it was going to be something great.

I opened up the hole and saw the edge of what I thought was a silver half or dollar, my heart skipped a beat. I pulled it out and it ended up being some sort of 10 cent aluminum token for Kar-Kwik. Man was I bummed out! Oh well, a find is a find.

I also took Dylan with me, he sure loves finding stuff and he's getting better at it all the time. Dylan found some clad and a wallet some kid lost. After we got home and had dinner we looked up the kids number in the phone book using his name and address off the learners permit in the wallet. We met the kids mother to return the wallet and she insisted, without exception that Dylan accept the reward of $10.00 she wanted to give him. She said it would have cost them nearly $100.00 and a ton of running around to replace all the documents in there so she really wanted to do it. We tried to deny the reward several times but she was very persistant, it made Dylan's day to do a good deed and get rewarded for it.

I also wanted to thank everyone again that was involved in the donation of the Ace 250 for Dylan.

HH

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Tokens are still cool. Good job returning the wallet. He should be put in for an honorable mention!
 
Great story and cool token too.
 
Those Kar Kwik tokens are a scourge. I found several around here. Congrats on the great hunt.
Thanks for returning the wallet I appreciate those deeds even when they don't affect me personally.
 
Oh now that woulda made my heart skip a beat too Sparky and cool beans on Dylan..thats great..so is he asking when your heading out again...

I havent seen brandon much at all this summer... :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
A day like that is worth 1000 LBS of silver.

Keep @ it and HH!!
 
:P Better than a pull tab, Sparky! ;D But I know how ya feel. :D Went hunting today at a site I've hunted a dozen times. Farm site that's full of iron. Three times throughout the morning, I got REALLY great signals and three times I got a TAX TOKEN! :crybaby2:

Tell Dylan congrats on those finds and we're proud of him for doing such a nice deed! :)
 
Thanks for the replies everyone.

I'll tell Dylan "good job" for ya.

sparkymaster
 
I love the area that you are detecting in. Even though it wasn't what you might have hoped it would be, you still found something worth keeping.

Kyle
 
You were a good example in showing Dylan the right thing to do..good job :thumbsup:

And I know how you feel..I saw a huge silver rim last fall and pulled up an aluminum Mardi Gras token..that was as big as a silver dollar..the let down was about as big as the rush I got when I first saw it.

HH,
Nat
 
Cool looking token Sparky! It sure looked like silver.
Kudos on the return guys...

Keep safe...

Keith
 
Excellant lesson for the young man WTG!!!!!!
 
He oughta put that "found" money toward buying some silver rounds or something cool.
 
Sure looked like a half or dollar in the dirt. I'm a token collector, but I would have been disappointed that it wasn't a large silver coin. Still cool though. :thumbsup:
 
Ha, I have only been detecting since April and I found one of those %$% Kar Kwick tokens. I was angry too, because i saw the edge and the clean silver look and thought for sure I had dug a Peace Dollar or something. Those things must be all over the Ogden area. Its fun to get your heart pumping like that though huh. GL out there.
 
excellent post and congrats on the finds :thumbsup:
 
they really did make that token look like a coin lol. Congrats anyway and way to go on returning the wallet. There should be more people like that out there but unfortunatly there aren't >:(
 

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