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Here are some recent finds from a few hunts at two park construction projects, two fields and two parks.

Tony, the image you found is a reproduction on the top of the State St hill above the original site in "Miller Valley". Here is an ca 1870 image of the original. Courtesy: www.beerhistory.com

I found this last fall within a half mile of what was once the Plank Road Brewery in Milwaukee. This is the third example of this token that I have dug while MDing.

Hello All, I found this token at a street construction project last fall. B.A. Westhoff / W. & J. / Milwaukee. This token is 23mm in diameter. Here is the token which is blank on the other side and a page from the 1863 Milwaukee City Directory.

I made it out for a short hunt to a park construction project and found this awesome brass name plate. It was a brisk 35 degrees today, but sunny!

I have only been out a few times this year, but stopped at a major street tear out in Milwaukee today and scored a nice good for milk token, a 1902 V nickel, a 1943 Merc and 9 wheaties. I found the shield nickel there last weekend.

I spent a couple of hours on each of two visits to this field back in October. I had been eyeing up this one for awhile and was finally able to make it there a couple of times. I knew there were about 4-5 houses adjacent to the edge of this field circa 1870-1930’s, but had no idea how much...

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It's so dry MDing territory is hard to come by right now. My curiosity got the better of me when I drove by a construction site tonight. I made a u-turn, stopped and looked around and found these. The bottle on the right says Skilton Foote & Co, Bunker Hill Pickles.

I spent about two hours at this site and made some interesting finds. The crusted "coin" was only discovered this weekend when I cleaned everything up and found out it was an 1864 IH drilled out to make a button. Not pictured, I also found about 20lbs worth of lead service line.

I had a real busy week this past week and didn't make it out at all. However, last week I found these on two short morning hunts where they were pulling some sidewalks.

Occasionally I hit these projects when they are in old portions of the city. You have to time it perfectly and usually only get one or two shots at it. They started this yesterday, I hit it last night, and today it's all gravel! I found one nice bar token, a small bottle about 3" tall and...

Sorry, there ain't much to see, pretty toasted.

I found these the other day on a short hunt. 1883 & 1907 IH, and 1920 Wheat Cent.

Found another nice old barber dime today and some other goodies.

Found these today in the same place as the Barber dime yesterday. Thought I had gold for a brief moment! V Nickel is 1910.

I have found seated, mercs and rosies this year but until today no barber. Here's a few finds from a short hunt today.

I made it out mid-day yesterday in the heat and humidity and scored these two awesome tokens. When the 125th Wis Summerfest 1973 token fell out of the dirt I thought I had a Morgan dollar for sure, but I'm happy with both of these finds! The smaller FOE token is for the Fraternal Order of...

I was in New Orleans last week and stopped by to tour the museum in the old US Mint. Although I find a lot of old coins detecting I am not really a coin collector. Most of what I know about coins I have learned from a friend who is a collector and here on the forum. I am a big history buff...

Some of you may have seen my "encased" cent from last week. Well, this past Saturday I found a real one. It is an aluminum horseshoe good luck piece from the Monon Railroad. It's pretty toasted but I thought a cool find nonetheless. It sure gave a weird signal! All the rest of the finds...