61Cadillac
Elite Member
MitchH1, I've got a spot for us to hit next week!
I had a very nice surprise today. Went to help a friend out and he surprised me with a new place to detect! I found a bunch of Wheats, an Indian, couple of Mercs, and this. When it came out of the ground it was so crusty I thought it was a large cent. When I gently rubbed one side of it at first I thought it was an image of Lincoln standing on the front. I gave the back a little rub and thought to myself, "Huh, that looks like a Confederate flag?, Maybe that is Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee on the front. I didn't do anything else to it in the field after than that other than putting it in my pouch. When I got home I went to work on it with a tooth pick. I got enough crust off of it to see the word "Sous" on it. Did a quick Google search and this came up.
http://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins?main_coin=10698
The date doesn't show well in the photo but it is an 1837 Canada (Bas) Sous Penny Token! I wish I had taken photos of it before I started cleaning it because I can't believe how nice it cleaned up! This just might be my favorite find of the year!
I had a very nice surprise today. Went to help a friend out and he surprised me with a new place to detect! I found a bunch of Wheats, an Indian, couple of Mercs, and this. When it came out of the ground it was so crusty I thought it was a large cent. When I gently rubbed one side of it at first I thought it was an image of Lincoln standing on the front. I gave the back a little rub and thought to myself, "Huh, that looks like a Confederate flag?, Maybe that is Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee on the front. I didn't do anything else to it in the field after than that other than putting it in my pouch. When I got home I went to work on it with a tooth pick. I got enough crust off of it to see the word "Sous" on it. Did a quick Google search and this came up.
http://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins?main_coin=10698
The date doesn't show well in the photo but it is an 1837 Canada (Bas) Sous Penny Token! I wish I had taken photos of it before I started cleaning it because I can't believe how nice it cleaned up! This just might be my favorite find of the year!
