The rain held off...

[Big Fang Coin Biter]

They predicted rain all day, but I only got rained on once. I drove to the spot. The soy beans were cut, and the farmer was home. How many times has that happened? The farmer was very nice and took some photocopies of my maps. Then he said there was a school in the corner of another field! I was hunting a spot where a residence was on my 1860 maps but gone on my 1872 maps. That is where I found the items below except the merc. came form the school site.

Pictured are: '35 merc, a thin boot and shoe token, bank of upper Canada half penny and penny token. The penny token is a first for me! Man are they large, wasn't quite sure what I had until I cleaned it up a bit. The finds were sort of chewed up from fertilizer but I still like them!

The school site was turned over corn stocks... I was already tired from the first site. Then I staggered around in the corn remains like a drunken fool. Oh, and the wind was blowing at around 40mph! At least the rain stopped. Found the merc, a wheat, and two nickels (one war nickel).

It was great to get out and detect! HH to all - BF

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Fertilizer takes no prisoners . . our soil up here is so acidic that fertilizer would probably be the lesser of the two evils ..

Nice finds .. congrats !!

 

[drkp88]

Nice stuff! Those old Canadian bank tokens don't show up often in Ct.
Bruce

 

[MikeO]

Nice finds Robin.
I thought when I dug my 1/2 Penny Bank Token this year it was a LC but, it was one of those.
Are you way up north in Michigan to be finding all those Canadian coins?

 

[TwoRivers]

n/t

 

[Dave-IL]

Looks like you had a good hunt Big Fang. Fertilizer is not so kind here in IL either.

 

[chip0877]

I find my share of Canadian coinage here in WNY and I too have found a Bank of Upper Canada one penny token, they are BIG, I'd say just shy of silver dollar size.
Good job on those old coins.

 

[NealNoIN]

n/t

 

[Orlensin-FL]

Good stuff there mate! Fertilizer wreaks havoc but you found the coins and that's what counts.

 

[Tim IN/ IronBrigade]

Nice ones Robin. Too bad fields are so hard on copper.

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

Nice collection there BF, HH.

Eddie

 

[Big Fang Coin Biter]

Not sure why, maybe a coin shortage for this area, but the really old sites (1860 or before) usually have a Canadian token. I've found quite a few.
Thanks - Robin