New Site Yields SLQ, Token, Button, RR Tag, 2 1909 Wheats, ID Help Please

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Hello everyone. Hope your Summer is bringing you tons of hunting time and finds as well as fun. I acquired a new site yesterday which I have driven by too many time and didn't even realize an old home sat here. My father drove by while I was hunting and we started talking about the town he grew up in in the 30's. The house was tore down in the 60's and it was a large brick home built in the 1800's. However no pre-1900 hundred coins have been found yet.

My hunting partner Randy and Ron were invited as well as we were hunting down along the sidewalk of this old town. The church next door owns the land as a picnic ground. Within an hour we had tracked down a member of the board who gave us the green light to hunt. But he said it would be nice if we donated our finds to the church, lol :laughing7:

The area has not been disturbed too much. We focused our attention to the surrounding , sloping hillside away from the home. I knew on top had been excavated and I didn't want to find a bunch of iron debris. >:( The front steps are still there which is a dead give away there was an old home there.

The area is about an acre so I will be comming back here for a while. I found all of the coins in a small area which I'm sure was used by people comming and going from the house to uptown stores.

Anyways, here are todays finds:

1927 SLQ. My second this year. A beauty with a nice date too
A 1 dollar coin which I have never seen before. Thought it was a gold coin
A medallion or token which reads on the front. Columbus. On the back. Machinery hall
A nice guilded button which reads: ????inson Extra Rich
A lead seal with some numbers on it???? ID help
A Railroad tag on some kind. ID help please. Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe RR. Just found it on the internet.. Why in Ohio??
A 380 shell Remington UMC Carh???I know Remington UMC is fairly old
A button thingy with a dragon on it??
2 1909 wheats found fairly close. No VDB or S
1 1916D and a 1917 S
Thanks for looking and any help will be appreciated. Ron

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ModernMiner said:
Ron,
GREAT FINDS!!! What a neat variety. :icon_thumleft: Congrats on that beauty of an SLQ. That is one of those new presidential dollar coins you found.
Chances are, that button back mark is "R & W Robinson". Circa 1834-1848.
I'll try to look it up later.
Congrats,
MM

It is Robinson but I can't read the rest. I don't want to break the shank. Thanks Doug
 

Nova said:
CJH. Good hunt as always. They razed an old church in my city. I was hunting it until the pastor kicked me off. I asked him what the problem was and he said because you reap all the profits. I told him I would donate a portion to the new church. Then he said it wasn't worth his while just leave. :dontknow:
Reap all the profits huh? Thats kinda hypocritical!! And people hesitate to question the honesty or goodness of somebody like that. LOL..Just another human doing his job people. 8)
 

Johnny Ringo Silver said:
Nova said:
CJH. Good hunt as always. They razed an old church in my city. I was hunting it until the pastor kicked me off. I asked him what the problem was and he said because you reap all the profits. I told him I would donate a portion to the new church. Then he said it wasn't worth his while just leave. :dontknow:
Reap all the profits huh? Thats kinda hypocritical!! And people hesitate to question the honesty or goodness of somebody like that. LOL..Just another human doing his job people. 8)

Reap all of the profits?? I guess they consider hunting 10 hours a day for a 6 dollar coin profit. I am a religious type and I will not get into a argument with someone on religion but our church just raised 3000 bucks at the anual ice cream social, down from 4K last year.
 

Congrats on the silver and all of those other interesting finds.
 

Some great finds, especially the SLQ that actually has a date :D Would like to know more about the railroad tag, that thing is really neat. Congrats. :thumbsup:
 

i asked permission to hunt a church field last year in maine and the paster told me he wanted all the finds. and i told him no i dont want to hunt here anymore i dont think god smiles on greed and left . the look on his face was priceless. willy.
 

awesome finds once again !!!
 

dfx willy said:
i asked permission to hunt a church field last year in maine and the paster told me he wanted all the finds. and i told him no i dont want to hunt here anymore i dont think god smiles on greed and left . the look on his face was priceless. willy.

This member of the church was reluctant at first. He said he had to report it to the Pastor. But for the time being he saw no problem hunting it. Haven't heard anything after that. Been out west for 2 weeks now. 116 in Parker Arizona yesterday. Tonopah, Az. was 91 last night .........for a low. This heat will kill you quick
 

Nice Digs CJH!
Congrats!

You always seem to come up with the good stuff!

Check the outer edge of the VanBuren Dollar I think they have the date etc on the outer edge.

Good Luck,
Mark
 

Nice bunch of finds. The RR tag looks like a baggage tag of a tool tag. The AT&SFRR is for the Atchison, Topeka, & SantaFe rail road. You can do a google search and find a load of history for this RR. The tag looks like about the late 1800,s . Good dig.

Les
 

That's an excellent haul! Sweet SLQ too. In all my detecting years I've only found one.

Ray
 

diggerfororo said:
Nice bunch of finds. The RR tag looks like a baggage tag of a tool tag. The AT&SFRR is for the Atchison, Topeka, & SantaFe rail road. You can do a google search and find a load of history for this RR. The tag looks like about the late 1800,s . Good dig.

Les

Thanks for the info, Les :icon_sunny:
 

mpostma said:
Nice Digs CJH!
Congrats!

You always seem to come up with the good stuff!

Check the outer edge of the VanBuren Dollar I think they have the date etc on the outer edge.

Good Luck,
Mark

Yep, 2003. Thanks for the info. It's hard to read even with a magnifying glass ::)
 

Rando said:
.380 CAPH= Colt's Autoloading Pistol, Hammerless.

Early 1900s..

It probably went in one of these..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Model_1903_Pocket_Hammerless

this link is for a "1903", they were identical except for caliber. The 1903 was .32, the 1908 was a .380 caliber.
your cartridge is basically a .380.
however from the look of the cartridge year, it more than likely was purchased for a Model 1908, which was the .380 variant.

Thanks for the info. What's with the Somalia flag?? I was there during Operation Restore Hope in the early 90's. Beautiful country, except for the war. I was there wi for 4 months. One of my friends was killed there during an ambush/raid gone bad.
 

Great finds Jarhead, Nice too see ya out digging, I've always loved those lead seals, or bale seals.
 

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