The Token Lot
Brent Montgomery
This adventure begins with Dave Kyte and I going to Ogden to hunt what I believed to be a house in the process of being torn down.
Arriving at the house, we realized that the back hoe was not there to tear the house down, and that people were still living in the house.
We hunted extensively behind the house finding only new coins.
We decided to "free style" around Ogden to see if we could find another place to hunt.
Stopping at a long abandoned lot on one of the main streets,(I do not know my way around Ogden), we decided to check it out.
Towards the back of the lot was a gravel area that looked like it had the possibility of containing treasure. We fired up our machines, and started to hunt. Within 2 minutes I found a Green River, Utah token. Things were looking up.
Shortly after Dave found a Ogden, Utah token. 2 tokens on the lot 5 minutes? Visions of piles of coins started to dance in our heads!
We continued to hunt finding a few machine tokens and some wheat pennies, but no other trade tokens.
A few weeks passed and I decided to try the lot again. We had some rain, and I thought I might get better signal clarity with the wet ground. This time I found a few more wheat pennies, and a few more machine tokens. All the tokens were nickel sized causing me to think this might be a slot machine slug token lot.
Operators of slot machines had a problem with slugs being used. They would take them out of their machines, burn them and throw them away. This lot began to have the appearance of a machine slugging lot. Having worked 2 other machine slugging lots, (Bad Ass Coffee and the Miniature Market lot) I know that burning of the tokens can cause a metal detector have trouble picking them up.
I returned one more time to turn the ground over to see if anything showed up. I began to turn the gravel area over and detect it. Suddenly I started getting signals. Within 15 minutes I had 19 items. 5 lead slugs, 8 machine tokens, and the remainder actual trade tokens. One token was the Emerald Saloon from Ogden, which I consider a great find.
Dave Kyte and I returned to screen out the area for any final tokens. Dave found some lead slugs and machine tokens, but no actual trade tokens. I found a Salt Lake token.
The lesson learned one more time was never give up on those Hunted out Areas!
Arriving at the house, we realized that the back hoe was not there to tear the house down, and that people were still living in the house.
We hunted extensively behind the house finding only new coins.
We decided to "free style" around Ogden to see if we could find another place to hunt.
Stopping at a long abandoned lot on one of the main streets,(I do not know my way around Ogden), we decided to check it out.
Towards the back of the lot was a gravel area that looked like it had the possibility of containing treasure. We fired up our machines, and started to hunt. Within 2 minutes I found a Green River, Utah token. Things were looking up.
Shortly after Dave found a Ogden, Utah token. 2 tokens on the lot 5 minutes? Visions of piles of coins started to dance in our heads!
We continued to hunt finding a few machine tokens and some wheat pennies, but no other trade tokens.
A few weeks passed and I decided to try the lot again. We had some rain, and I thought I might get better signal clarity with the wet ground. This time I found a few more wheat pennies, and a few more machine tokens. All the tokens were nickel sized causing me to think this might be a slot machine slug token lot.
Operators of slot machines had a problem with slugs being used. They would take them out of their machines, burn them and throw them away. This lot began to have the appearance of a machine slugging lot. Having worked 2 other machine slugging lots, (Bad Ass Coffee and the Miniature Market lot) I know that burning of the tokens can cause a metal detector have trouble picking them up.
I returned one more time to turn the ground over to see if anything showed up. I began to turn the gravel area over and detect it. Suddenly I started getting signals. Within 15 minutes I had 19 items. 5 lead slugs, 8 machine tokens, and the remainder actual trade tokens. One token was the Emerald Saloon from Ogden, which I consider a great find.
Dave Kyte and I returned to screen out the area for any final tokens. Dave found some lead slugs and machine tokens, but no actual trade tokens. I found a Salt Lake token.
The lesson learned one more time was never give up on those Hunted out Areas!
