Old Dump In The Middle Of Nowhere

[Conito@55]

Today was a very cold morning, but as the hours passed everything changed. Today I returned to the old dump where I found the 5 dollar gold coin, I haven't found any more gold or silver yet. But the ground geve me these two tokens that came together.

I don't have any information about them yet, but I cleaned them and this is what they look like

The Deus seems like a difficult machine. But now I'm not afraid to play with the settings anymore.

 

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[Conito@55]

looks like some harsh digging. love the old tokens, wtg

Yes it is

 

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[pepperj]

Congrats on the recoveries.
The tokens might of been in a fire.
That or an acid of sorts.
Mining and acids wasn't uncommon.

 

[Conito@55]

Congrats on the recoveries.
The tokens might of been in a fire.
That or an acid of sorts.
Mining and acids wasn't uncommon.

That's what I think, since the pieces in that place come out very damaged.

 

[oldmxrat]

That place needs a good cleaning! That was one of the hardest places to hunt that I've ever hunted.
Congrats on squeaking out more goodies!

 

[Conito@55]

That place needs a good cleaning! That was one of the hardest places to hunt that I've ever hunted.
Congrats on squeaking out more goodies!

That's what I was thinking, going with a rake and making piles of trash

 

[unclemac]

Fascinating tokens, but I would ask why the 6 1/4 cent ? when we only had a half cent coin in the late 1800's
How do you calculate a 1/4 cent when you can't give change like that ? Someone would have to spend at least 2 of these to get a half cent coin, which I'm not sure was even in circulation at time..
And the denomination of 6 ? when our currency is broken down in denominations of 5 ?
Or was this an attempt to have merchants that could break down a quarter into 4 parts ?
BTW, I've never seen a token that breaks down cents into fractions, Extraordinary !!!

i can help with that... 6-1/4 is half of 12-1/2.... 12-1/2 was a common token and the usual price of a drink in a saloon/bar., (which is way so many bar tokens are 12-1/2)...12-1/2 doubled is 25... as in "two bits".... Two bits refers to Spanish colonial coinage, as in 2 Reales is "two----pieces" of an 8 Reales "dollar". Which is what the U.S. (and the rest of the world) used for some 300 years. In the U.S. these Spanish coins were legal tender until 1857. This is why so many of our members find "cob" coinage so frequently. So the value, 6-1/4, actually harkens back to the Spanish system based on eights and not the decimal system we use today.