Jackpot! New oldest coin and 2 off the bucket list!
Hi all!
Since my last weekend off was shot because of my move, I thought I would go out swinging for maybe a couple hours after work this morning. I'll say I really needed a mental health break, and this sure helped. Not much research to do on the area I moved into since it was really only a crossroads until after about 1880 when they put in a railroad station to support a new factory. It was settled first around the 1830s but never had more than a handful of people until almost 100 years later.
But it was easy to locate the crossroads since they are the main streets now and the area is quite built up. I do know that this area has been pounded extensively for many years even though old areas that are accessible are few and far between. I've tried the park behind the original school site that dates to the 1850s, but it is devoid of targets including trash. But I had a feeling about another area and it really paid off.
I decided to try the old rail station now park, and work a grassy strip between the railroad tracks and the street leading to the school. I figured there must have been lots of people passing through that way in the early days.
Well, the area around the station was heavily terraformed and had nothing but some shallow clad and the usual trash. But about 100 yards away from the park I got a solid 12-45 at 1 inch. Figuring I'll take the easy quarter, I dug it up from under maybe a half inch of hard clay. But it wasn't the quarter I was expecting. Instead, I was looking at a quarter sized copper coin. After cleaning off the baked on clay I realized I had my first ever Canadian half cent token! Looking for the date I was amazed to see the coin was perfectly preserved and showed a clear 1850. The only defect as where it looks like someone tried to punch a square nail through it.
Only about a foot away I got a screaming 12-47 at 2 inches. This became my second bucket lister of the morning and my now oldest coin, an 1837 Canadian large cent! In that area I also popped several tokens including the dreaded chuck e cheese token, a ceasar casino token, a hospital parking token, and a 5 cent drink token. Every last one being perfectly preserved with no verdigris or corrosion of any kind.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7ea0e2c01d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0012d7ba31.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...2a40e734a7.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...84e3795213.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...04f38d0ec1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...127959ce7f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...288abb9b2e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d2cedd09af.jpg
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