You Are Supposed To Dig OUT Of Prison, Not Dig One Up!

[Subterranean]

Hit a local park that has been reluctantly producing goodies lately. Dug up a large (size of US silver dollar) token for Alcatraz federal penitentiary/ San Francisco that was buried in the softball complex common area. This is my third large copper token found in the past five months, I think I am on a roll!



The other two "largies" found late last year. Indianapolis Speedway and Golden Gate Casino Las Vegas.



Thanks for looking, I wish all of my TNet friends "Happy Hunting!"

Sub

 

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[JoeB_OH]

Real nice finds! Love the Casino Token!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very cool token!

 

[lookingharder]

Thats amazing. I'm surprised at the lack of information I could find on the Alcatraz token. Seems like the only info is items on Ebay. Let us know what you find out about it.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Sub. Thanks for sharing...

 

[thrifty76now]

Some nice and big tokens you have unearthed lately.

 

[Kurios1]

Great token hunting buddy. Well done.

 

[against the wind]

Cool token,,
Congrats

 

[Subterranean]

Thanks for the kind words, ya'all! These three tokens all had VDI's of 89-92 on the ATPro. Lookingharder, based on what I can find, looking at the original plastic sleeve these Alcatraz souvenir tokens came in, they appear to have been produced in the 1970's-80's? Cheers, Sub

 

[BLK HOLE]

Sweet tokens congratulations

 

[texjim]

Cool tokens.

 

[lairmo]

Are you digging in SW MO?...just curious...

 

[Subterranean]

Are you digging in SW MO?...just curious...

lairmo, I sure am. I dig public lands for jewelry and coins mostly, once in a while a relic will pop up. Member of the 417 Relic Hunters Club. Sub

 

[dirtlooter]

love them, sweet tokens. congrats

 

[just.neil]

Nice!

 

[Trezurehunter]

There you have it Sub. You just found your "Get out of jail free card" !! Nice tokens.

 

[HighVDI]

Sweet finds Sub. Congrats to ya.

 

[Rookster]

Great finds.

 

[Worm-Slicer]

Your title made me think of an actual prison I detected. One of the stranger places and was surreal to be in the prison yard with high fences topped in barbed wire and detecting next to the main building with bars over the windows and a huge watch tower. lol Of course the place is closed, but that was an interesting experience. Didn't find much though, but guess the prisoners didn't have too much to lose. Got me lots of nice prison detecting photos too.lol By the way, not sure how the frowny got at the top of my post, I never added that.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I've been hunting the San Francisco parks a thousand times since 1987 and had never found an Alcatraz token before!..That's awesome!