When I worked in the Military I had fun making MS Excel charts for morning meetings and sort of missed doing it and tried making one up for my 2007 coin keepers. Did not come too bad for a simple program, the hard part was finding the coins.
2007 ended up being a rather good year for me coin wise but not relics wise, however, it was still a great year. I believe all of my finds were found in wooded settings, no field finds this year at all, except that Standing Liberty Quarter which was on the edge of a field in a fire ditch.
May all have a great 2008 for hunting, how ever or whatever you look for
Don in South Jersey
"The mantra has always been don't clean a (copper) coin or it will lose value.
For undug coins this is true. For dug coins this is untrue.
The value will increase with judicious cleaning."
Seriously good year, well done. Keep up the good work in 2008.
TOO BUSY TO DETECT, YOU'RE TOO BUSY!!!
'No good comes from thinking about how much time we waste detecting, as wasted time is good soul time' - me 25/06/08
How do you find Gold coins? Reply: 'By finding lots of Silver ones..'
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well seems most of your coins are after 1900 ---which is par for the course -- since modern money is the most comman type of coins found -- and clad even more common -- every try sorting your coin finds by % found in a spot?-- say -- zinc cents -- old cents --nickles new after 38 --pre 38 -- then clad dimes,quarters and halves vs silver ones to see what % of your find are new vs old to pin point older coin hot spots and high yeild clad areas -- sometimes reveiwing your records will surprize you --- Ivan
well seems most of your coins are after 1900 ---which is par for the course -- since modern money is the most comman type of coins found -- and clad even more common -- every try sorting your coin finds by % found in a spot?-- say -- zinc cents -- old cents --nickles new after 38 --pre 38 -- then clad dimes,quarters and halves vs silver ones to see what % of your find are new vs old to pin point older coin hot spots and high yeild clad areas -- sometimes reveiwing your records will surprize you --- Ivan
Hehee, I already have done stat work on the finds, but what I want to keep account of.
One thing I agree with Kirk and the BDD gang is, I do not search for clad and if I find it, I find it, but where I hunt it is usually only found in relation with hunters/hikers/party goers losing it.
Don
"The mantra has always been don't clean a (copper) coin or it will lose value.
For undug coins this is true. For dug coins this is untrue.
The value will increase with judicious cleaning."
Very nice finds for the year! The chart is a great idea .I would do one but a chart of wheat pennies would not be the same.LOL
Hilarious Birdman.
Don,
Your post and finds is fantastic. You have the job. I will set you up a nice cubicle so you can do charts all day long.
That chart is great, but I really like the way you displayed you coins in that display box, and showing both sides of the coins. Very impressive.
I can't even imagine finding the old coins that you have, so I'll just drool over yours.
Congrats Don. A fantastic 2007 for you.
-MM-
Doug
Oldest coin - 1700's Spanish silver piece of 8 reale
Oldest U.S. silver - 1833 Capped Bust Half Dime
Oldest U.S. copper - 1847 Large cent
Civil War best finds:
*NC officers belt buckle
*CSN Confederate Navy Officer button
*Eagle Sword Belt Plate
Very nice work Don..Any info on the anchor piece? I love all the coins and relics goodluck in 2008..Relicdude
Never got a definitive answer on the anchor piece. Sent the photos to Mark Parker at Western and Eastern and he came up empty. There were two others, similar that were posted on this forum, with a guess attribution I think, but I don't remember what it was. Comfy in Vt found one of them and can't recall the other individual. So they were somewhat mass produced, since all three were found in different sections of the country. Wish I had more to say, but it is a nice display piece.
Don
"The mantra has always been don't clean a (copper) coin or it will lose value.
For undug coins this is true. For dug coins this is untrue.
The value will increase with judicious cleaning."
It looks very old .. I hope you find out just what it is oneday..I love all the coins too.You sure know where to look The large cents you have found, would give me a stroke
You're lucky Don, you can post the years totals and get right back to it for 2008. It's gonna be quite a while before some of us are digging anything other then snow.
In some ways my hunting seems very opposite of yours, all my finds are from open fields and not woods, and 2007 was definitely a relics year. It was the first year where I hunted many new sites and didn't find a single Spanish silver, although I did take a visitor to an area and he dug a cob. Detecting sure is funny like that, 4 times I have dug two early silver (1700s) in a single hunt but 2007 only gave me one total.
Looking forward to your future digs!
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Don,
Lot's of nice old coins. Very nice. The overall composite is nice but looses detail(I know - it would be too many pictures individually).
You were right about your prediction of old coins per site at 4-5. At least for the one site Dan found. Dan and I thought we were going to beat the odds. We found the 5 quickly but lot's of hours later -no more. Not to be. Maybe 2008.
Good luck in '08.
Bob
Minelab Exp II, Whites DFX, Whites Classic III(former Tejon, CoinStrike & Quattro user)
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I want a chart like that for my pulltabs. LOL
Originally Posted by ivan salis
