teotwawki12
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Spent the first part of my day re-digging a one room schoolhouse with the hope that the rain would make some new targets pop...nope.
Went to a field I've hit before that had an old home site (no one can remember a house there, but it's on the plat from 1874). I found a token which was very cool and then found an eagle button....the button is smashed but it's awesome just the way it is; I'm pretty sure that it's civil war era.
Didn't realize HOW cool the token was until I got home and searched it on the great and powerful Google. First of all, what looked like 1868 was actually 1863...and it's a civil war token, and pretty rare!
For those of you (like me) who are unfamiliar with civil war tokens, it seems that, due to the scarcity of cents and half cents during the war, tokens were made to be used as currency. Some were patriotic, and some businesses who had the ability to stamp these tokens put their info on the reverse. Mine is that, its from a dentist (E. Hause of Tecumseh, Michigan...)
So....very rare finds for Michigan! A Scovill Mfg. eagle button and a civil war token on the same day!!!
(Edit - figured I'd better add a couple better photos since I made the featured threads
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Went to a field I've hit before that had an old home site (no one can remember a house there, but it's on the plat from 1874). I found a token which was very cool and then found an eagle button....the button is smashed but it's awesome just the way it is; I'm pretty sure that it's civil war era.
Didn't realize HOW cool the token was until I got home and searched it on the great and powerful Google. First of all, what looked like 1868 was actually 1863...and it's a civil war token, and pretty rare!
For those of you (like me) who are unfamiliar with civil war tokens, it seems that, due to the scarcity of cents and half cents during the war, tokens were made to be used as currency. Some were patriotic, and some businesses who had the ability to stamp these tokens put their info on the reverse. Mine is that, its from a dentist (E. Hause of Tecumseh, Michigan...)
So....very rare finds for Michigan! A Scovill Mfg. eagle button and a civil war token on the same day!!!
(Edit - figured I'd better add a couple better photos since I made the featured threads
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