First Dandy Button

Digger-Dave · Jul 2, 2017

Dug my first dandy button this morning.

Hunted 2 cellar holes with my nephew. Just before calling it a day, we stopped at this road side cellar hole. It's been slammed for decades. Amazingly the 5x8 coil found it in the lip of the cellar hole and it wasn't surrounded by nails. It was out in the open about 4 inched down. I was thinking "coin" at first. It has a shank too.

CJ319 · Jul 2, 2017

That button is huge. And in great shape. Congrats!

matmit · Jul 2, 2017

Very nice score!
Perhaps others passed it up thinking it was a can??

Digger-Dave · Jul 2, 2017

CJ319 said:
That button is huge. And in great shape. Congrats!

Yes. These are huge. Instead of ringing up like a typical flat button (nickel coin range) it was more like a deep wheat cent, but pinpointed too big.

Thank you.

matmit said:
Very nice score!
Perhaps others passed it up thinking it was a can??

This thing was right inside the lip of the cellar hole. Often with newer home sites (1800's and newer), roof and chimney flashing is our worst enemy. This place could have been built and abandoned before flashing was a popular building material.

Thanks for the input!

cellrdwellr · Jul 2, 2017

Nice job on the big ol dandy button dave!

cellrdwellr · Jul 3, 2017

Sorry Dave duplicate post!

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