Old California
Full Member
Hello TreasureNet Comrades,
Recently detected with a few friends (Rick, Ray & Rob) and also had the pleasure of meeting Rays wife Julie, A wonderful day detecting with friends....It was a last minute call from Rick and thanks to two other friends we were able to detect a particular area known to give up reales and other mission era finds.
Below are my take for the day, The first picture is the chopped seated dime on top of a good seated, About tossed this in my trash pouch thinking it was a piece of twisted metal until I got a glimpse of a number which happened to be the year (1873). At first, After we realized it was a coin we thought it was a quarter piece of a 1/2 dime and later at home after cleaning up the finds I realized it was a seated dime instead.
Several of the finds are 4 flat buttons, One of them a Gilt button. One underwear button and other types of buttons. Despite the broken shank on the Gilt button a beautiful specimen non the less.
One of the pictures is a close up shot of the chopped seated dime and two tiny nugget size relic finds, The larger strip of band below the chopped dime appears to have a thin layer of gilt. Maybe trim used on a miniature wooden chest?
One of the circular finds in the upper right corner is a Black Powder cap, So I've been told as these generally surface from older areas such as this particular site.
The pic of the ammo, Well everything but one piece is some form of old ammo. A few are smashed but one piece of lead which appears to be a smashed musket ball and isn't has the name JOSE stamped on, My guess is as good as anyone's what it may be?
The last picture, Is a display I made and handed it over to one of the property owners last week who allows El and I to detect here. Not allot of finds but a few key finds showing this was indeed a popular adobe site back in it's day.
Below are the finds from past hunts inside the display,
One No.(29) Phoenix button,
One rare (1830-40) Mexican soldier button,
A few flat buttons,
One Chinese cache coin,
Two seated coins,
Skeleton Key,
Square nails,
And several pistol and musket balls grouped together across the bottom.
Sorry but for protection of the site had to Highlight the location on the display,
Thanks for looking,
Paul (Ca)
Recently detected with a few friends (Rick, Ray & Rob) and also had the pleasure of meeting Rays wife Julie, A wonderful day detecting with friends....It was a last minute call from Rick and thanks to two other friends we were able to detect a particular area known to give up reales and other mission era finds.
Below are my take for the day, The first picture is the chopped seated dime on top of a good seated, About tossed this in my trash pouch thinking it was a piece of twisted metal until I got a glimpse of a number which happened to be the year (1873). At first, After we realized it was a coin we thought it was a quarter piece of a 1/2 dime and later at home after cleaning up the finds I realized it was a seated dime instead.
Several of the finds are 4 flat buttons, One of them a Gilt button. One underwear button and other types of buttons. Despite the broken shank on the Gilt button a beautiful specimen non the less.
One of the pictures is a close up shot of the chopped seated dime and two tiny nugget size relic finds, The larger strip of band below the chopped dime appears to have a thin layer of gilt. Maybe trim used on a miniature wooden chest?
One of the circular finds in the upper right corner is a Black Powder cap, So I've been told as these generally surface from older areas such as this particular site.
The pic of the ammo, Well everything but one piece is some form of old ammo. A few are smashed but one piece of lead which appears to be a smashed musket ball and isn't has the name JOSE stamped on, My guess is as good as anyone's what it may be?
The last picture, Is a display I made and handed it over to one of the property owners last week who allows El and I to detect here. Not allot of finds but a few key finds showing this was indeed a popular adobe site back in it's day.
Below are the finds from past hunts inside the display,
One No.(29) Phoenix button,
One rare (1830-40) Mexican soldier button,
A few flat buttons,
One Chinese cache coin,
Two seated coins,
Skeleton Key,
Square nails,
And several pistol and musket balls grouped together across the bottom.
Sorry but for protection of the site had to Highlight the location on the display,
Thanks for looking,
Paul (Ca)
