Crawfish,Copperheads,seated and WHAT?

kidlester · May 28, 2017

I got invited to a crawfish boil on Saturday and I knew the home so I took the trusty CTX. This is an old home site with an old school on the property. Got a flaky 12-40 12-42 at 6", the seated dime must have been on edge. it is badly worn and my pinpoint was off. I scuffed it a little but that's ok. I don't dig many old coins in central Texas. I was going along and ran into the copperhead snake, glad I was looking down, I would have steeped right on top of him. Found the V nickel right after that at 2"
Then I got a solid 12-46, 12-47 at 7". I just knew it was the elusive barber quarter I've been looking for. Nope. A boy scout membership ping with a swastika on it. I thought I had found a german coin. What!!!. Does anyone know how old this token is, it has to be pre WW2.
HH!

Dflan83 · May 28, 2017

Too much adventure for me there! a snake, Silver and swastika in the same hunt. :cool:

Sod · May 28, 2017

You found the good luck token just in time :laughing:

beephead · May 28, 2017

You found lot of good stuff, including the snake. I kill all poisonous snakes and leave the non-poisonous ones alone. Especially king snakes, because they eat the poisonous snakes.

beephead

Monkeys Uncle · May 28, 2017

Congrats on the coins and avoiding the copperhead. I'm in the Highland Lakes area (Lake LBJish). What part of Central Texas do you swing your CTX?

jwp1964 · May 28, 2017

Wow! Nice hunt and photo of the snake.

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metaladdict · May 28, 2017

Great coins!

Skippy SH13 · May 28, 2017

The swastika symbol was adopted by the Nazi party, not invented by it. Prior to WWII, you'll find it in a lot of places, including the Boy Scouts (obviously)>

Cheers!

Skippy

matmit · May 28, 2017

I found the same token a couple years ago.
I believe it is from about 1919

Barracuda · May 29, 2017

I like snakes. But I hate copper heads and cotton mouths! I had a cotton mouth the size of a baseball bat chase me and strike twice at me bearly missing me. Hope you introduced him to your shovel.

Nice finds though

fasteddy · May 29, 2017

You are to find nice happy things from the past history of people,,, Not to find BAD EVIL THINGS LIKE SWASTIKA AND COPPER SNAKES,,, But congrats on your find,,, :?:

ScubaDetective · May 29, 2017

I have two of those Boy Scout tokens. One is dated 1909 and I believe the other is dated 1910. Yours is a bit newer but not that much newer I believe.

Nice finds

kidlester · May 29, 2017

Monkeys Uncle said:
Congrats on the coins and avoiding the copperhead. I'm in the Highland Lakes area (Lake LBJish). What part of Central Texas do you swing your CTX?

I live in Bryan College Station area.

hawgdawg · May 29, 2017

If had taken the pic of the snake, it would have been in 2pieces. Don't like the poisonous ones.

Monkeys Uncle · May 29, 2017

kidlester said:
I live in Bryan College Station area.

I used to have a home near Welborn. Lot's of copperheads around there. Are you an A&M student/grad/faculty???

kidlester · May 30, 2017

Monkeys Uncle said:
I used to have a home near Welborn. Lot's of copperheads around there. Are you an A&M student/grad/faculty???

I recently retired from Siemens and took a position at TAMU. I am from Bryan so it was an easy choice. I know wellborn very well. if you haven't been there lately, you would not recognize the area. Incredible growth.

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