Had an unexpectedly wonderful time detecting this week. I've been to this field before and found two buttons and a bunch of tacks (upholstery?).
My first find was only a couple minutes in on my first pass - the large flat button in the pics. Sweet. Love buttons. I was also happy b/c I started swinging quite a distance from the old cabin nearby.
The day after a friend of mine showed some of his found watch-winding keys - and me thinking I'd never find one - Boom! It was my second find. Cleaning it home revealed the more intricate detail. I've hardly seen any of these but I find it to be one of the prettiest I've seen.
I dug a lot of buckshot (buck and ball?) and a good number of tacks. Another button or two.! I was getting a little discouraged in the sense that I really wanted to find a coin.! I was picturing a nice large cent. The only one i have is so rough I can't determine any details.
Then, came a pretty nice signal - my most promising of the day up to that point.
It was odd - I missed it with the plug and had to scoop the sidewall out a bit. I reached in with my hand, scooped the soil out and did a double-take. There was a quarter-round piece of silver-looking metal laying there.
I was in shock and wishing my son was there to experience this with me. He'd have been the one most like to have the pinpointer in his hand and would've been the guy to find it.
I actually took a break from detecting shortly after that and later, when leaving, found ANOTHER one, as I worked my way back to the truck. So, the first 2-reale piece was found near the old cabin that's just inside the woods and the 2nd piece was found over 100 yards away.
AND, while not from the same piece of silver, the two pieces are a matching pair, making up one half of the same coin. It's not the side with a year on it, though, and since I know nothing about these coins, I'd love some help identifying it.
Alan
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My first find was only a couple minutes in on my first pass - the large flat button in the pics. Sweet. Love buttons. I was also happy b/c I started swinging quite a distance from the old cabin nearby.
The day after a friend of mine showed some of his found watch-winding keys - and me thinking I'd never find one - Boom! It was my second find. Cleaning it home revealed the more intricate detail. I've hardly seen any of these but I find it to be one of the prettiest I've seen.
I dug a lot of buckshot (buck and ball?) and a good number of tacks. Another button or two.! I was getting a little discouraged in the sense that I really wanted to find a coin.! I was picturing a nice large cent. The only one i have is so rough I can't determine any details.
Then, came a pretty nice signal - my most promising of the day up to that point.
It was odd - I missed it with the plug and had to scoop the sidewall out a bit. I reached in with my hand, scooped the soil out and did a double-take. There was a quarter-round piece of silver-looking metal laying there.
I was in shock and wishing my son was there to experience this with me. He'd have been the one most like to have the pinpointer in his hand and would've been the guy to find it.
I actually took a break from detecting shortly after that and later, when leaving, found ANOTHER one, as I worked my way back to the truck. So, the first 2-reale piece was found near the old cabin that's just inside the woods and the 2nd piece was found over 100 yards away.
AND, while not from the same piece of silver, the two pieces are a matching pair, making up one half of the same coin. It's not the side with a year on it, though, and since I know nothing about these coins, I'd love some help identifying it.
Alan
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