I went to an old foundation in the woods that I located on my 1874 map the other day even with 4 inches of snow left on the ground here in Central, PA. After about a half hour of finding mostly iron relics (nothing worth saving) I herd a large ding in my head phones that came up under the dime icon at 5 inches. Thinking it must be a crunched up soda can I was not to excited but dug down to only see a nice pile of coins. After rubbing a few off I found out they weren
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I have been tricked!
- Thread starter Bottleman
- Start date
Theyre possibly work tokens, although they havent been marked yet. These were given to workers each time they completed some task. At the end of the day, the number of tokens held by each worker indicated the amount of work done and thus, the amount of pay he was to receive. This was common on sheep concerns at shearing time.
They were usually marked with a stamped number and some sort of identifying mark, so a worker couldn't just come on site with his pocket full of tokens. Yours may be in the pre-marking stage.
Of course, there is likely some other explanation as well. I thought mint blanks, but they are too thin. Ah well, theyre interesting finds anyway.
David
They were usually marked with a stamped number and some sort of identifying mark, so a worker couldn't just come on site with his pocket full of tokens. Yours may be in the pre-marking stage.
Of course, there is likely some other explanation as well. I thought mint blanks, but they are too thin. Ah well, theyre interesting finds anyway.
David
Leslie(nova scotia)
Well-known member
From the land of the Bluenose...could be some one was going to "forge" some blacksmith tokens. Neat find!
Uncle Willy
New member
Seems you may have found the beginnings of some tokens but as old as they look I suspect they are copper slugs to be used in vending machines back when a penny would buy something. Depending on their size they could have been used as dime slugs. Illegal as they were slugs were used quite frequently years ago.
Bill
Bill