fairly good start to 2019- got better today

I can certainly see some hunter naming his dog “Winchester”! That’s pretty cool seeing them that old,and they were “dog tax” tags instead of a “license”.
Nice day there Walter!

Awesome finds!!! Nice early tags!!!

Nice way to start the year, I love finding old dog tags but my oldest is only 1969 so far. Strange finding two and part of the chain, I wonder if You dug deeper if you would find good old Winchester Congrats on a nice start to the new year!

Very nice - old Dog Tags are always cool finds !

Thanks everyone. They are great finds.

I was hoping to go out to a park half hour from me this afternoon but there was no audio from my detector. I designed and built this detector so open it it to fix the problem. Did find the problem and the design flaw that caused it. A little re-design , replace parts and do mods and it working better than before. However it is now 3pm and park closes at 4:30 so headed to the local soccer field which is 5 minutes away.
Dug some clad and a few deep pieces of old iron junk. Then 3 feet in from a side line near the center of one soccer field started digging a high conductor. Had to go deeper than most clad and out popped a disk larger than a quarter but thinner with some green, copper corrosion. Thinking what is this but having a feeling it is old stuck it in my pocket.

After getting home at 5:10pm started carefully cleaning off the dirt with a tooth pick.
The picture below is what showed up. I could see the crossed anchor & sword with crown and though I've seen this posted. Then saw the word 'token'. Bingo- Bank of Canada and it matched the pictures the internet.

A little more careful clearing a rubbing on a little nose oil brought out enough to read 1850, half penny.

Can't believe this was found on a soccer field but then again this was a farm field since before 1800. Best find of the year so far and thrilled with this find. I have seen others post them but never thought I would find one.

Congrats, I LOVE dog tax tags !!