seems every year is going to be the best year, this year was no exception, through a lot of hole digging and field walking my best (some personal favourites) finds from the year are as follows:
10. best gold....only gold.....14k ring
9. best non-coin silver....shellback spoon
8. best silver coin....tie! 1720's French and 1830's 4d...both firsts!
7. honourable mention silvers.....6d's 2 reales and a fishie
6. best overall copper.....1792 Irish token
5. other copper contenders....counterstamped, medal, liard, Georgie
4. best eyeball find....stone knife
3. best civilian relic.....dog fob
2. second place relics....spoon, buckle, cross, button, etc..
1. best button....1790's militia....plus other honourable mentions
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I didn't know about that shoe buckle. When did you get that?
I got that this fall....down in the park of all places....that's why I will dig through the garbage just to find a good one down there.....it only took a thousand holes or so to get that
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You had a great year for some terrific finds! Great variety and it would be hard for me to say which I like the best of what you posted, all are great.
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."
presidential campaign items, 1860 JOHN BELL-EDWARD EVERETT tin type pic token, 1888 Benjamin Harrison pin. 1876 CENTENNIAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEDAL WITH BARON VON STEUBEN AND GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. CW RELICS 1864 Union store card,3 I,1 R, eagle buttons
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nice finds for the season!!!!! nice score on all the goodies!!! MR TUFF
Sweet digs made on the floater, IH! In my opinion, your best find was that fully intact shoe buckle, which I never remember you posting.
you are 100% correct, I never posted it
here's the story, or lack of one.....decent fall day, couple of hours to kill....head to the park(even though I'm not much of a park hunter, one of our local parks is huge and is covered mostly in large trees) where I've found a few older targets before
it was my only "old" find for the hunt and I didn't consider posting just the one find, even though it's a pretty good buckle it should have been considered one of my better finds of the season considering these usually don't come out intact....I'll post up the next one for ya right away
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