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MonDak

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I know James finds a lot more coins than I do, but I have a lot of fun finding this kind of stuff.[attachment 130755 1905.jpg]
 
Gotta love those tokens! And watch fobs are fabulous too................Good hunting!................Hombre
 
Them are some cool tokens :thumbup:
 
Sure, I get a lot of Coins when I get out but finding Tokens and all that kind of great stuff you have here can be more rewarding since there is a lot of Token Collectors and sometimes not enough Tokens to go around for everyone that wants one from each business thus making them scarce and worth more than a Silver Dime is worth. Fantastic lot of finds MonDak! I love them Tokens as well and have a few hundred in my collection that I have bought up. Continued Success, Good Luck and HH to you. Your doing GREAT!!!:super:
 
James N.D. said:
Sure, I get a lot of Coins when I get out but finding Tokens and all that kind of great stuff you have here can be more rewarding since there is a lot of Token Collectors and sometimes not enough Tokens to go around for everyone that wants one from each business thus making them scarce and worth more than a Silver Dime is worth. Fantastic lot of finds MonDak! I love them Tokens as well and have a few hundred in my collection that I have bought up. Continued Success, Good Luck and HH to you. Your doing GREAT!!!:super:
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Thanks James,
I still have some more, but I'll probobly have to recapture them from a disc I burned them to. I have one from your area, its a good for
one free drink from the Fargo Builtmore hotel, the predecessor to what is now the Kelly Inn. Most of the tokens and tags give the same
signal as an IH and most of these were lock on solid signals. Monday I was out and was going to dig some iffy signals, but my little
dachshound deceided to challenge a big old rattlesnake, so I did'nt get much done. I guess I've got her saved, she's acting normal
again. About three years ago I was back to ND where I grew up thinking I was going to find a bunch of stuff, but I think you had
already been there, and all I found was a few wheats, a war nickle and a V nickle.
Continued success to you.
Ken
 
Hey MonDak-

Great finds - got to love those tokens and medals. Some of these look like tool tags or some other sort of company ID. I really like the trade tokens, especially the ones that depict a pool table or can be identified to a certain city or town. I'll take a nice token, medal or watch fob any day over many of the silver coins found. What's also nice is that token collectors (like me) aren't usually as picky as coin collectors in regards to condition. Neat stuff and happy hunting!
 
Ken . . . great finds . . I always cherish those finds often more than pulling a silver coin or Indian Head simply due to the unique history they provide. I have found a few . . . very few . . . over the years but when you hold a saloon token, a miners store token or the like after being in the ground for 100 yeras, it is like you entered that time machine again. Great finds and super photos . . . . . thanks for sharing them here.

I think Jimmy Sierra ought to start running trips to North Dakota rather than England for hunting vacations . . . . . . with weekly hauls of 10 to 20 silver coins, 50+ Wheat cents, Indian Heads, buffalo nickels, semi-key coin dates, rings, tokens and more being posted by James, North Dakota. seems to be the treasure hunters mecca . . . . . not sure what type of sites James and his gang is hunting but it must be where others have not been before. Heck the hundreds of tokens referenced by James as being in his collectio in this post is enough to make me start packing my gear and heading north! Iknow a few hunters in the Bismark and Fargo areas that are lucky to find that much all season. Guess if you are looking for a find-filled vacation, you may want to think about trading in that ticket to Hawaii or Europe and head north for some hunting in the Land of Silver :detecting:
 
They do a lot of research and go to SD and MN where most of these find they are finding this year. Many of the public areas around here are very dead and finding a few clad and a wheatie and sometimes a silver coin. Some great finds last year were in construction sites, but we seen some people detecting while the contruction was going on. We heard about some contruction going on in a old town last year and when we got there a few days later we were told there had been many different people over it already, but James still got over 12 IH that were missed and a few silver too as he knows his Explorer well, but then again who wouldn't for the hours he has used it, must be over 2000 hours by now.
The secret is doing the research of old maps and finding these spot that were used in the late 1800 to early 1900 and then finding them and then getting permission to hunt them. Many I have heard of are not being used anymore and hard to find the exact spot as they show no signs of a park, school or fairgrounds and some are in farm fields and some even in areas filled with water.
It is not as easy as it sounds like, but with the research and the time finding these areas they do well, but drive up to 600 miles in one day and don't know of any spot they don't drive at least 100 miles to get there this year.
 
The U.M.W. medal was made for the establishment of the 8 hour work day in 1898.
I read in an old newspaper article that they had a big celabration on the 20th anniversary of
the 8 hour work day here in 1918, and assume thats when it was lost.
 
The old tokens I've dug are few and far between. I suspect tokens were used more in areas outside of the big cities where currency was more scarce, but that's just a guess.....maybe I'm just not digging the right signals.......I sent a PM to MonDak asking where these came in at, but I did not get a reply.
 
I wish I could find a few of those.
You have some nice ones and the pictures are good.
 
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