Louis Kuntzman Trade Token Found

Louis Kuntzman Trade Token
Good for 1 Loaf Bread circa 1874-1892

Found January 22nd, 2023 on Quarter Hill by BHiggles • Minelab Equinox 800 metal detector • Park 1 default • Sensitivity 18 • 11 inch default coil • 16-18 VDI • 8 inches deep

Quarter Hill

The Louis Kuntzman trade token was found on Quarter Hill. Quarter Hill is a location I named, as such, due to the enormous amount of clad quarters coming off the hill at the local high school on the home team side of the football stadium. This location was once the fairgrounds in Boonville, IN way back in the late 1800’s in Warrick county. I found an image/map of the ancient fairgrounds. This is now where the local high school stands. The horse track, in the map, is now where the track and field track is at the high school built in 1958.

Fairgrounds Treasure Map
Friday Night Lights at Boonville High School, Boonville Indiana

Quarter Hill is always jammed packed full of football fans for Friday Night Lights. For years this area has been untouched and makes metal detecting a pure delight. The Minelab Equinox 800 metal detector and the Garrett Pro Pointer AT pin pointer have no troubles whatsoever finding amazing treasures. From modern to historic! An 1891 seated liberty dime, war nickels, rare Victorian relics and many more incredible metal detecting finds have come off of Quarter Hill. I am truly blessed to be able to have this location as one of my favorite dig sites! To date, I have recovered over 600 modern quarters.

This Louis Kuntzman trade token is one of my most BELOVED treasures in my first 2 years metal detecting. It is about the size of a quarter and is VERY VERY thin! It appears to be gold gilt and says “Louis Kuntzman, Good for 1 Loaf Bread”. The backside is plain and has no details at all that can be determined at this point. I was not recording on the day of this treasure find, so there is no live dig footage. CLICK HERE for other live digs! I found this trade token very near where the 1891 liberty dime was discovered.
1891 Seated Liberty Dime Found
Louis Kuntzman Trade Token

LOUIS’S STORY

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.

Louis Kuntzman was born in Pike County, Ohio, February 12, 1855, being the fifth of eleven children born to Martin and Barbara (Rohrsheb) Kuntzman, who were both natives of Germany. The father, together with his family, removed to Warrick County, Indiana, in 1863, locating in Boonville, where he now resides. Louis made his home with his parents in his youth, receiving only a limited education. At the age of twelve years he went to Evansville, where he remained several years, learning the bakery and confectionery business thoroughly, In December, 1874 he returned to Boonville and opened a bakery and confectionery store, at which he has ever since been engaged.
Louis Kuntzman Trade Token

Mr. Kuntzman is one of Boonville’s most thorough-going and enterprising business men. Beginning with only $175 capital, he has combined industry with frugality, thus not only increasing his capital to a considerable extent, but is establishing a profitable trade as well. January 18, 1877, he was united in matrimony with Elizabeth Hepp, who was born in Warrick County, Indiana, February 24, 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Kuntzman are members of the Evangelical Church, and are the parents of two children, named George F. and Helena C.

Read more blogs. I tried to add this token to tokencatalog.com but found the site and info to submit unreliable and very out dated.