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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3276299, member: 10461"]The greyish, quarter-sized disc was not, alas, a silver quarter.  It was an old 10-cent trade token from the Atlanta Press & Radio Club, which I would imagine to be from the 1930s or '40s. I have since been unable to find anything out about this mysterious token.  It was struck in aluminum and did not fare so well during its decades of burial.  (Dunno what it is about me lately, with the bad focus in my pix.  Sorry.) [ATTACH=full]865218[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]865219[/ATTACH] It's intriguing, though.  An Internet search turned up one example of a <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/token-1ct-press-radio-club-atlanta-ga-unl" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/token-1ct-press-radio-club-atlanta-ga-unl" rel="nofollow">1-cent token</a> of this type, which was struck in copper or bronze, and which also appeared to have been dug.  There is still an Atlanta Press Club, and an Atlanta Radio Club for amateur radio enthusiasts, though whether either had their roots in the "Atlanta Press & Radio Club" that issued this token, I do not know. So this was item #1 in the picture diagram I posted earlier of the findspot. <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/sharpsburg-findspot-png.849668/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> And now for Item #2... I resumed my sweeping around the lot with the detector.  Closer to the street, I got a loud signal which read "quarter" on my detector's digital display, and registered at around two to three inches deep, as I recall.  The signal was very consistent with what one would expect from a modern clad quarter. I dug it, and as soon as I turned back the plug of reddish clay sod, a coin fell out of the plug. It was not the brownish stained color I was expecting to see from a clad quarter. No, it was plainly a silver coin, and a good sized one at that! I could see the reeded edge, and through the bits of clay that still stuck to the coin's surfaces, I could see what appeared to be sun rays as part of the design.  I thought it might be a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FWalker%2520Half%2520Album%2F1939-01300.jpg&hash=e8eb4b1c072bddad06a62e7b6a518539" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FWalker%2520Half%2520Album%2F1939-01300.jpg&hash=e8eb4b1c072bddad06a62e7b6a518539">Walking Liberty half</a> because of that, because we all know that design features a sun with rays. Here's a very crude mockup of what those rays looked like when they were peeking out from beneath the dirt on the coin I had just found. [ATTACH=full]865220[/ATTACH] What do you suppose it was?  My heartbeat quickened. [/QUOTE]

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