A day in the field and a mystery token

[Professor of Engineering]

Hello Everyone,

Today was a beautiful day for metal detecting, great temperatures, no rain and enough clouds to keep the sun from burning. The day started out slow, but soon picked up. The cool coin was a 1916 Mercury dime (no D!) a 1902 IH cent and a 1976 Lincoln cent. The relics were two religious crosses , one in nice condition, a piece of harmonica reed and a tag. The other goodies were various fixtures and tractor parts …etc.

The of the day is a token that has the name #ennie Harrison (1906?) with a star in the middle , any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for looking.

GL & HH

Doc

 

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[Truth]

Great job professor little silver, little blessing and a little mystery on your hands. Great finds.

Let us know more on the token if you can. I love tokens

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on a nice variety of finds Professor. Keep checking that Merc. Maybe the D will appear one day !

 

[washingtonian]

Nice job POE! Love that worn merc. looks like one of those custom tokens you could stamp out at a fair in the mid 1900s.

 

[idahotokens]

Prof--That piece with the name on it appears to be the product of a "Metal Typer" machine like this. They were placed at tourist spots, arcades, carnivals, etc. Put in a quarter or two, turn the handle to the first letter you want, pull the lever to imprint it, turn to the next letter, etc. etc. No backspaces!
John in the Great 208

 

[BigWaveDave]

Nice finds Professor.... Go Sox!

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[CASPER-2]

surprised you never found or seen one of those aluminum "tokens" before
they used to have them at all the Ma. amusement parks when I was a kid - popular at the
Big E - we used to find them all over the fair grounds years ago - usually a good sign
when found cause you may find silver coins at same spots - plus being so big - hard for
others to miss - and if they did miss those - they missed other stuff too

 

[Whyme]

Nice finds! Nice Merc and cross.

 

[treblehunter]

I've got a few of those tokens, I think the one has a cuss word on it

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

Good day a field and a nifty assortment of finds!

 

[Reanm8er]

I had no idea they were that old. We had one in the JJ Newberry Department Store in my town in the 50s. I've found a few of these tokens but have never found one without a typo of some kind. "ENNIE" was probably short for "HENNIE" or "HENNRIETA". I found one once that said "RHODA", I guess that's why RHONDA tossed it. If my memory serves me right isn't there a four leaf clover inside the star?

Nice finds professor! Congrats! The items in pic 2 look pretty interesting as well.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice variety of finds. Congrats

 

[JackalopeZL1]

Nice hunt

 

[diggingthe1]

Glad you had a good day out!! It’s always nice out swinging the coil! I like that token!

 

[A2coins]

Great job Doc

 

[vince76]

Nice finds Pro

 

[RVRoamer74]

Nice finds. Always nice to come away with a few cool relics.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Love those aluminum star tokens. You'll never find 2 that are the same. All are very personalized with sometimes a unique message. After a few years in this hobby you should have a pile of them!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very interesting range of finds Professor!
I really like the '138' brass tag.
Here's an example of your 'token that has the name #ennie Harrison (1906?) with a star in the middle' that I found a few years ago.

I had to dig through 5 boxes of misc finds before I finally found it too!

Dave