Short Relic Hunt w/the Equinox 800 Strikes Early US Silver !!!

Cal_Cobra

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Tom and I got out for a few hours after work yesterday to one of his "back-pocket" spots that's been well worked the years. It's getting stingy with targets, but I still managed to get a few keepers, including the oldest seated dime I've found, as my previous oldest seateds were an 1840 half dollar, and an 1840 seated half dime. Hunted in Field 2, auto GB, noise cancel, 22 gain, 50 tones, multi-freq, default settings for everything else.


If anyone has any idea what this do-hickey is, I'd greatly appreciate an ID. It's about an inch long, and the ID of the circle at the top is about the diameter of a U.S. nickel:


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Big ole piece of lead at the top was super deep, two old pieces of green copper we find at Spanish era sites:



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Nice old late 1700's/early 1800's flat button:


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And the grand finale - lol This seated dime was deep, came in as a high tone whisper, and even the pinpoint audio was weak/soft. I've been fooled with plenty of deep iron that sounds similar, but this sounded good enough to go for, took several shovel loads of dirt to get to it, and finally the pin-pointer was sounding off as I saw a dark black disc fly by in the dirt movement. I felt around for it, and located it, and before looking at it I felt it to see if it had a loop as I suspected it was going to be a button, no loop, OK, time to check it out and it was an 1838-O seated dime!!

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Thanks for looking and HH,
Cal
 

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beautiful silver! congrats on the wonderful seated!
 

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GREAT job!! Love the flat button, but I LOVE the Seated -- and an OLD OLD one, too! Outstanding job!!

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DigDeepNow

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Love that dime!!
Congrats.
 

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Great looking seated dime! :occasion14:
 

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Thanks everyone, hope to get to that site again and see what else the Equinox will find.
 

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