AirmetTango
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Last week, i had a work trip to a location with slightly warmer temperatures than home, so I took my machine with me hoping for the opportunity to get a head start on 2022 with some diggable dirt. I ended up in an old park with temps in the mid to upper 30s, but there was little wind and not a cloud in the sky - with the sun beating down, it felt warmer than it was, making it a pretty comfortable day for early January.
Ended up with a nice variety of finds, but by far my favorite was a small silver religious medal that I recovered from a solid 8” depth. It’s a Catholic Miraculous Medal - and while even the modern ones all are engraved “1830” for the date that the depicted event occurred, it turns out this one may legit be from the 1830s. Church officials originally commissioned a well known goldsmith, Adrien Vachette, to design and produce the original medals in 1832. He ended up producing about 2 million of them by 1836, and he died in 1839. The medal I dug has “Vachette” stamped on the back, indicating it was one of the medals he produced!
Also got a somewhat shallow 1905 IHP that cleaned up wonderfully, a 1920 Buff, a 1950 KG VI Canadian cent, ‘52 Jefferson, and 3 Wheats (‘25, ‘46, ‘48), plus $2.49 in clad. Overall, it was a fun hunt and a great way to keep cabin fever at bay!
Ended up with a nice variety of finds, but by far my favorite was a small silver religious medal that I recovered from a solid 8” depth. It’s a Catholic Miraculous Medal - and while even the modern ones all are engraved “1830” for the date that the depicted event occurred, it turns out this one may legit be from the 1830s. Church officials originally commissioned a well known goldsmith, Adrien Vachette, to design and produce the original medals in 1832. He ended up producing about 2 million of them by 1836, and he died in 1839. The medal I dug has “Vachette” stamped on the back, indicating it was one of the medals he produced!
Also got a somewhat shallow 1905 IHP that cleaned up wonderfully, a 1920 Buff, a 1950 KG VI Canadian cent, ‘52 Jefferson, and 3 Wheats (‘25, ‘46, ‘48), plus $2.49 in clad. Overall, it was a fun hunt and a great way to keep cabin fever at bay!
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