When the water drops to a certain level in the river we like to wade out and look for stuff that has been thrown off the bridge. We find a lot of trade tokens, amusement tokens and some coins and jewelry. We have even found guns, mostly pistols that were dumped many many years ago.
Well, this weekend the water dropped way down and we were able to hunt some areas that were previously out of bounds due to the depth and current.
Anyway, I was late getting there both Saturday and Sunday and ended up hunting behind the other guys.
They racked up the tokens with one guy finding over 200. I ended the weekend with several tokens, lead slugs, a Buffalo nickel and one wheat penny.
My best find was an Army Air Force Technician's badge dating between 1943 and the Korean War. It is marked Sterling and weighs 16 grams (5/8th oz.) It was covered with a black tar like substance as are a lot of the tokens we find.
The new looking nickel is for size comparison.