teotwawki12
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Was sunny and in the 60's and the beans are being harvested...
Went to a farm which has some fields with old homesteads I've hunted before. Stopped in at the grain elevator to ask where they've planted winter wheat. The field I wanted was unplanted and plowed, but they suggested I might like to try an abandoned house they have near the field.
I hunted it for about 45 minutes and decided I wasn't in the mood to fight through the 1970's change to find the older stuff today. Will save that one for another time with some reinforcements. Found a few doo-dads:
Moved over to the field I'd intended to search; I've been there once before when it was harvested. It has a huge iron patch that is very noisy, but when I grab a non-ferrous tone it's generally something old. I dug LOTS of mid-tones and took my time. It was recently plowed and I only used my shovel a couple of times; could generally just poke my pinpointer into the dirt and find what I was looking for. Here are a couple of the better buttons and a pretty 1870 nickel:
Didn't hear a high tone for hours other than a few bleeping rivets (which of course sound like silver dimes) and one 1910 wheat penny...which I think I lost.
Then, closer to the road side of the "hill" which I'm guessing the house was on, started getting some higher tones:
The sun was going down, I was sore, and my detector battery had been on one bar for quite a while. So I detected back to the car. Found a watch winding key...great way to end the day!
But got one more clear high tone, almost back to the car (didn't finish the "front yard" area yet...this trip). Pulled up the dirt with my hand and out popped what was clearly a silver dime. Had to be old, given the other stuff I'd been finding. Sat there and watched the sun set and enjoyed not knowing what it was going to be for a couple minutes...
Went home and cleaned things up:
One thing that intrigued me was this chunk of what appears to be native copper. It's not magnetic, green, and I scratched a bit of it to reveal shiny copper color.... What is a 3/4 pound chunk of native copper doing in the middle of the lower peninsula of Michigan??? Thing rang up 37 on the Equinox.
Now it's time to google that "Free Silver" button...curious about that too....
*edit*. Seems float copper HAS been found this far south… pretty dang cool…. https://museum.mtu.edu/sites/default/files/2019-11/AESMM_Web_Pub_3_Float_ Copper.pdf
Went to a farm which has some fields with old homesteads I've hunted before. Stopped in at the grain elevator to ask where they've planted winter wheat. The field I wanted was unplanted and plowed, but they suggested I might like to try an abandoned house they have near the field.
I hunted it for about 45 minutes and decided I wasn't in the mood to fight through the 1970's change to find the older stuff today. Will save that one for another time with some reinforcements. Found a few doo-dads:
Moved over to the field I'd intended to search; I've been there once before when it was harvested. It has a huge iron patch that is very noisy, but when I grab a non-ferrous tone it's generally something old. I dug LOTS of mid-tones and took my time. It was recently plowed and I only used my shovel a couple of times; could generally just poke my pinpointer into the dirt and find what I was looking for. Here are a couple of the better buttons and a pretty 1870 nickel:
Didn't hear a high tone for hours other than a few bleeping rivets (which of course sound like silver dimes) and one 1910 wheat penny...which I think I lost.
Then, closer to the road side of the "hill" which I'm guessing the house was on, started getting some higher tones:
The sun was going down, I was sore, and my detector battery had been on one bar for quite a while. So I detected back to the car. Found a watch winding key...great way to end the day!
But got one more clear high tone, almost back to the car (didn't finish the "front yard" area yet...this trip). Pulled up the dirt with my hand and out popped what was clearly a silver dime. Had to be old, given the other stuff I'd been finding. Sat there and watched the sun set and enjoyed not knowing what it was going to be for a couple minutes...
Went home and cleaned things up:
One thing that intrigued me was this chunk of what appears to be native copper. It's not magnetic, green, and I scratched a bit of it to reveal shiny copper color.... What is a 3/4 pound chunk of native copper doing in the middle of the lower peninsula of Michigan??? Thing rang up 37 on the Equinox.
Now it's time to google that "Free Silver" button...curious about that too....
*edit*. Seems float copper HAS been found this far south… pretty dang cool…. https://museum.mtu.edu/sites/default/files/2019-11/AESMM_Web_Pub_3_Float_ Copper.pdf
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