bearbqd
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Recent finds from past few weeks
Hey everyone, I haven't posted anything in a few weeks but I have been detecting when it's not a hundred degrees. I did detect one day when it was about that hot and I think I nearly lost all of my bodily fluids through sweat that day. I'll try to keep all of these in order, but since I'm typing before I load the pictures, I can't promise that. If someone could pm me as to how to submit a little bit of text then a picture and then do that for the next pics too that would be great.
Well my indian fort field is quite grown up in most areas and the finds have been getting fewer and farther between. I was lucky enough to pick up a neat Connecticut copper in my first five minutes there the other day. For those of you who haven't seen my other posts on this field, it has produced so far: 1794 Large planchet large cent, 1797 LC, 1816 LC, 1819 LC, 1828 LC, 1837 LC, 18?? Half cent, Two unidentifyable clipped LC's or colonials, 1864 IH, Two 1897 IHs, 1867 IH, 1890 IH, Two 1935 wheats, 24 different buttons and a plethora of other relics. What's weird about the recent Connecticut is that although there isn't a lot of detail, I can make out that it is double struck (odd since these were hand struck I believe), and the rear is canted about 90 degrees and the woman on the back sits down toward the bottom right. Someone really botched this coin when they struck it. I can't find the variation in my red book either. The head faces left, but the writing on the back doesn't match for a head that faces left.
I also found the neat bell in that field completely intact as well as everything in the photo with the old cowbell. The picture with the long harmonica reed has what I think is the smallest buckle on earth, lol. Look how tiny it is. To a child's shoe possibly? Don't have a clue myself.
Some of the other finds came from my adventure yesterday. My friend Aaron (standing in the one shot) took me to an old 1800's mansion or what's left of it after succumbing to lightening and a fire many years ago (his friend remembers it burning when he was a kid). The area looks awesome, but didn't produce all that much the first time there. It has a spring house in the rear of the property with a deep well in front of it. I was looking for coins in front of the house where I figured the carriage would have loaded and dropped people off, hence many coins falling out of their pockets, but came up empty there. I started crawling under the bushes beside the house when Aaron came around the side to where I was grinning from ear to ear. "What did you find?" I asked. He showed me his first silver find, a 1927 Mercury. I was very happy for him as my Exp II usually outhunts his ACE 250 10 to 1. He found it just below the service just a couple of feet from my first dug hole. Doh!! A half hour later he shows me another merc. "Way to go bud!"
It was actually because of him that I found my only good find of the day. He told me he had a feeling about the area where the second merc came from and knew my Explorer would sniff deeper. He took me over to where a section of wall had fallen over and after 20 seconds of detecting I found the LC. I think it's a 1816. The dates pretty gone, but I was happy. I also found a 1945 wheat penny. There was tons of broken crockery and bottles (old pieces) which was a shame. There was probably some valuable pieces there if they were intact. I did keep one broken piece that has part of the makers mark on the back. Anyone recognize it or know how to identify it?
Oh yeah, the nice 1845 LC came from the same property where I found the Confederate block A button in perfect shape. The wing in the picture with the bell also came from there. The pin in that same picture came from indian fort field. I thought it was a rebel flag pin at first, but its just shaped that way. Enjoy the pics.
Hey everyone, I haven't posted anything in a few weeks but I have been detecting when it's not a hundred degrees. I did detect one day when it was about that hot and I think I nearly lost all of my bodily fluids through sweat that day. I'll try to keep all of these in order, but since I'm typing before I load the pictures, I can't promise that. If someone could pm me as to how to submit a little bit of text then a picture and then do that for the next pics too that would be great.
Well my indian fort field is quite grown up in most areas and the finds have been getting fewer and farther between. I was lucky enough to pick up a neat Connecticut copper in my first five minutes there the other day. For those of you who haven't seen my other posts on this field, it has produced so far: 1794 Large planchet large cent, 1797 LC, 1816 LC, 1819 LC, 1828 LC, 1837 LC, 18?? Half cent, Two unidentifyable clipped LC's or colonials, 1864 IH, Two 1897 IHs, 1867 IH, 1890 IH, Two 1935 wheats, 24 different buttons and a plethora of other relics. What's weird about the recent Connecticut is that although there isn't a lot of detail, I can make out that it is double struck (odd since these were hand struck I believe), and the rear is canted about 90 degrees and the woman on the back sits down toward the bottom right. Someone really botched this coin when they struck it. I can't find the variation in my red book either. The head faces left, but the writing on the back doesn't match for a head that faces left.
I also found the neat bell in that field completely intact as well as everything in the photo with the old cowbell. The picture with the long harmonica reed has what I think is the smallest buckle on earth, lol. Look how tiny it is. To a child's shoe possibly? Don't have a clue myself.
Some of the other finds came from my adventure yesterday. My friend Aaron (standing in the one shot) took me to an old 1800's mansion or what's left of it after succumbing to lightening and a fire many years ago (his friend remembers it burning when he was a kid). The area looks awesome, but didn't produce all that much the first time there. It has a spring house in the rear of the property with a deep well in front of it. I was looking for coins in front of the house where I figured the carriage would have loaded and dropped people off, hence many coins falling out of their pockets, but came up empty there. I started crawling under the bushes beside the house when Aaron came around the side to where I was grinning from ear to ear. "What did you find?" I asked. He showed me his first silver find, a 1927 Mercury. I was very happy for him as my Exp II usually outhunts his ACE 250 10 to 1. He found it just below the service just a couple of feet from my first dug hole. Doh!! A half hour later he shows me another merc. "Way to go bud!"
It was actually because of him that I found my only good find of the day. He told me he had a feeling about the area where the second merc came from and knew my Explorer would sniff deeper. He took me over to where a section of wall had fallen over and after 20 seconds of detecting I found the LC. I think it's a 1816. The dates pretty gone, but I was happy. I also found a 1945 wheat penny. There was tons of broken crockery and bottles (old pieces) which was a shame. There was probably some valuable pieces there if they were intact. I did keep one broken piece that has part of the makers mark on the back. Anyone recognize it or know how to identify it?
Oh yeah, the nice 1845 LC came from the same property where I found the Confederate block A button in perfect shape. The wing in the picture with the bell also came from there. The pin in that same picture came from indian fort field. I thought it was a rebel flag pin at first, but its just shaped that way. Enjoy the pics.
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