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HEAVYMETALNUT
03-18-2010, 02:03 PM
Had 2 hours to kill this afternoon.the 85 year old gentleman that lives 2 houses up said i could hunt his yard. there is barely any yard.he did alot of earth moving back in the 1950's and has a tiered back yard now.not too many targets in the diggable areas.
my first target was this stamped copper disc that i thought was a large copper coin.(still not convinced that it wasn't at some point) :confused:
a pretty cool hoover token (thought it was the vacum cleaner at first) rofl.
then it hit me :bop: herbert hoover! :cheesysmile: it's a campaign token from 1928
[url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/271392/72261/Herbert-Hoover-campaign-token-1928]http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/271392/72261/Herbert-Hoover-campaign-token-192:dontknow:/url]
a busted piece of colonial shoe buckle,2 neat little buttons.one the shank is rotted away and may be civil war marine button. a old personalized unengraved dog tag(i have 2 of these the same now) some brass odds n ends. a small chinese cash coin and a small lead minnie ball.
he said come back anytime but,like i said not much yard area.

HEAVYMETALNUT
03-18-2010, 02:04 PM
last 2 pics

coinnut
03-18-2010, 02:37 PM
You got a couple of keepers there. Some good buttons, a nice token and a wanna be copper lol It's probably not one though. If it's the size of a large cent, you should see some area that would let you say it's a coin. Judging from the ok condition that the other targets came out in, corrosion would not be an issue on the coin. But it's your disc....if you wanna call it a coppa, then call it a coppa lol I'd go back and do it again, what do you have to lose? :yes:

Rusthunter
03-18-2010, 05:45 PM
your copper looks like it may be a transformer ID tag. I have found a few of them but most say transformer XX

HEAVYMETALNUT
03-18-2010, 06:43 PM
your copper looks like it may be a transformer ID tag. I have found a few of them but most say transformer XX

this may be a blank hard times token.scovill brass made hard times tokens and the factory or mill was across the street so,,,idk

sniffy
03-18-2010, 07:06 PM
PLEASE SIR, LET ME DIG HOLES IN YOUR YARD!

SeabeeRon
03-18-2010, 09:05 PM
Wow Dave, nice bunch of goodies!! Sometimes wish I lived back your way!

HEAVYMETALNUT
03-18-2010, 10:04 PM
Wow Dave, nice bunch of goodies!! Sometimes wish I lived back your way!

thanks ron! if ya ever get back out this way look us up! thumbsup01

del
03-19-2010, 02:29 AM
decent few hours Dave , nice navy button and political token

hoser
03-19-2010, 05:33 AM
Very cool finds. Love the campain token. The grond there seems really fogiving. Ours would have those things eaten up by now. Well done.

HEAVYMETALNUT
03-19-2010, 06:02 AM
Very cool finds. Love the campain token. The grond there seems really fogiving. Ours would have those things eaten up by now. Well done.

well the soil in this yard is kinda sandy.otherwise they would be corroded for sure.