Religious Medallions

[shanegalang]

All these were dug in a field Buckleboy, Diggergirl and myself have been recovering from. The really cool thing is that they are shown in the picture in the order they were found. The last 2 are both silver. After i found the 5th one, I carried "Mary" with me for "luck" and that very day I dug the sterling silver Jesus one at the end. He will be going with me on the next hunt

 

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[BuckleBoy]

Those look nicer than mine! I got one silver one, and the rest are toast! Very cool photo!

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Nice haul of religious medallions! It seems like I have dug one of eveything ever made but I guess that I am wrong because I have never dug any kind of religious medallion. You guys/gals seem to dig alot of them.


VPR

 

[Gunrunner61]

That's plumb Amazing for real................Cool finds.....................HH

 

[VOL1266-X]

You are on the way to a very nice collection of those Shane. WTG, Quindy.

 

[Greylock]

Very nice. the third one from the left is the miraculous medal. I found one in the yard last week. 1830 is the year a saint had a vision of Mary. I think the fifth from the left is another version on it.

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[BuckleBoy]

Nice haul of religious medallions! It seems like I have dug one of eveything ever made but I guess that I am wrong because I have never dug any kind of religious medallion. You guys/gals seem to dig alot of them.
VPR

I never seemed to find them in Kentucky, Indiana, or Virginia/West Virginia. Only ever dug one or two in 20 years there... and I did see a buddy dig a pre-CW miraculous medallion in a house site that only had flat buttons and musketballs. Different situation here in Louisiana, because the state is so...Catholic! Here are mine from that same field as Shane's. Just one field. One silver, one brass (both of those in the center), and the rest aluminum. Seems that these are much more frequently found in Victorian and later house sites, and fewer items like this dug in CW period and earlier sites here. This field had a pre-CW house, which is what we're picking through the junque for...but some nice later-period stuff, and of course neither Shane nor I would turn down a silver medallion. Wish they were all sterling instead of aluminum!

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I find a lot of those here in New Orleans, an interesting side note on them is that many people seem to have tacked them up over the doors and windows of the houses here to ward off evil I guess. I don't know how many I've seen tacked to the trim in old houses I've worked on here, I always leave those where they are though.