>>20652403>maybe there was some rotting sheet metal masking itwe think alike, that had crossed my mind as well. The place is littered with cans and barrel hoops and such. That would completely mask it from the detector. In places where I find several tokens I'll either dig and pile up every scrap of iron in the ground to get at the coins, or I'll screen the entire dump. I only found one token and a dime at this spot prior so I never put that much effort into it. The token is valuable, it's probably worth about a thousand dollars, but there's no real reason to suspect there's more tokens at this saloon. One token from another town is probably just a random drop, not a place that regularly used and discarded tokens on site. Pic is the one I found in the dime dump. I hunt the saloons that threw out dozens of the things. Those locations are less common, but when I find one I clean it out.
this is why my detector buddies hate me. I'll systematically clean out an entire trash dump finding dozens of coins while they get bored and move on to the next place and find nothing.
they're relying on luck, while I'm searching newspapers and tax records and combing through dumps to locate the good spots, and then systematically emptying them. My method is incredibly productive, I find easily 20 times more tokens than they do in the same amount of time. They may be having more fun than me, but I doubt that too. I enjoy targeted hunts more than random finds.
only screen I've ever found was window or door screen made of COPPER! I've seen that at 2 locations now, it's a strange thing to find. If I ever come across a decent grating I'll definitely snag it!
