Token kinda day,,highs:drinking: and lows:cry:

[bleeohio]

Finally caught the guy home today and got the ok to hunt an old homestead that we've been driving by for two years now. I Dug a whole pile of stuff and not one us coin in the bunch. Brother did dig a LC and an early indian head. First pic is the pile of flat buttons, second pic is a civil war token,third is an eagle i, fourth is a log cabin one piece. The fifth is a ? , Looks like a lc, dated 1837, but on the back says, millions for defence, not one cent for tribute. I'm assuming some sort of political but have no idea. After all the highs i was bound to hit a low, last is a,,,,well, you know what it was HH....

 

[caps]

Really good hunt result! What machine were you using? What was the deepest depth of your find..Great pic's. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bleeohio]

Thanks caps, i used a shadow 5, (kind of a fisher), all the stuff was in a plowed field so some stuff wasn't that deep others were down there a bit. I had the 7in. coil on as lotsa iron. Gonna try to hit it again with the 9in coil before they get crops in to see if i can't squeek any thing else out. hh....

 

[scubadetector]

Well the I button is civil war. Wonderful finds. I like tokens better than coins. Very Very nice!!

 

[scubadetector]

I googled the slogan Millions for Defense not one cent for Tribute" and came up with some interesting articles. It was first acredited to :


"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Representative Robert Goodloe Harper, Address, June 18, 1798 (Harper was the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means)


Another place stgated this but unfortunately no dates:

This statement was made by a journalist after a delegation visited France to. hopefully, work on a solution to the issues that the French had with Jay's Treaty. John Adams sent Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Eldrige Gerry to request a visit with the Revolutionary Committee of Five that had replaced the monarchy. Before they were allowed to have an audience with them, 3 French officials only known as "X,Y, and Z" stated that they would only be seen if they paid a bribe of $250,000, arranged for the U.S. to loan $12 million to the French government, and apologized for remarks that John Adams made about France. Their response was, "No, not a sixpence". The journalist was responding to this incident.



But both those instances predate your find. Very nice though. I would love to find something like that!! Good luck in researching your token!!

 

[ElginTim]

Congrats on that hard times token, it's a fantastic find!

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

I take it this means you're happy with the detector?

 

[bleeohio]

If it finds me the other half of that buckle,,,,,,,THEN ,,,,,,i'll be happy And you know as well as i do 90% of this game is putting your coil over top of it. With that said, yup, the shadow is workin fine....

 

[bleeohio]

n/t

 

[bleeohio]

Couldn't think of what it was called, hard times token,,,,good call ET...