p2c
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- Apr 14, 2009
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Been a long Time: August Finds (including Free Mason's Token)
Hi all,
I have been very busy recently and regret not getting on T-net for weeks. I will try to look through all of your past finds since being off, but I am still quite busy. I am sure a lot of goods were found. I got out for 4 hunts in August and 1 hunt in September. Here are the collection of my finds:
First, on Aug 6, I found the cruddy 1896 IH. Exactly 1 week to the day later, on Aug 13, I found the nice 1896 from same location:
Second, on August 17, I found my most interesting find in a while, plus my first silver in exactly a month. I popped the hole and this large cent sized piece fell out. I thought a LC would be a little old for the area, so I did not get my hopes up. As I inspected, I saw that it was a Free Mason token. I know little about these, so if anyone has the dirt on them, please let me know. Just as I realized what it was, the thought came to rescan the hole. Even before I so much as picked up my detector, my eye caught sight of this 1903 dime which was in the same hole as the FM token -- I guess gives an idea of when it was dropped.
Finally, on August 24 (the buffalo is from Sept 3 and different location), I found the ugliest silver dime I ever dug. You cannot see, but it is an 1892 (yeah my 4th 1800's silver on the year) Barber Dime. It was really dark, when I found it I could not tell what it was but assumed it was a dime and not a penny. When I sonicated it, some of the black stuff came off and it was white and porous underneath. It is also really worn thin. I wondered if it was a non-silver counterfeit, but when I scraped the rim with my thumb nail, when white stuff comes off it is indeed silvery. What would do this to silver? My speculation is either acid in the soil from pine trees, or that it was in a fire.
After such a fast start to the year, finding silver has gotten slow for me, though most my silver now is Barber or older. I am up to 43 (compare that to 35 at beginning of May). Let's see if I'll hit even 50 this year....
Hi all,
I have been very busy recently and regret not getting on T-net for weeks. I will try to look through all of your past finds since being off, but I am still quite busy. I am sure a lot of goods were found. I got out for 4 hunts in August and 1 hunt in September. Here are the collection of my finds:
First, on Aug 6, I found the cruddy 1896 IH. Exactly 1 week to the day later, on Aug 13, I found the nice 1896 from same location:
Second, on August 17, I found my most interesting find in a while, plus my first silver in exactly a month. I popped the hole and this large cent sized piece fell out. I thought a LC would be a little old for the area, so I did not get my hopes up. As I inspected, I saw that it was a Free Mason token. I know little about these, so if anyone has the dirt on them, please let me know. Just as I realized what it was, the thought came to rescan the hole. Even before I so much as picked up my detector, my eye caught sight of this 1903 dime which was in the same hole as the FM token -- I guess gives an idea of when it was dropped.
Finally, on August 24 (the buffalo is from Sept 3 and different location), I found the ugliest silver dime I ever dug. You cannot see, but it is an 1892 (yeah my 4th 1800's silver on the year) Barber Dime. It was really dark, when I found it I could not tell what it was but assumed it was a dime and not a penny. When I sonicated it, some of the black stuff came off and it was white and porous underneath. It is also really worn thin. I wondered if it was a non-silver counterfeit, but when I scraped the rim with my thumb nail, when white stuff comes off it is indeed silvery. What would do this to silver? My speculation is either acid in the soil from pine trees, or that it was in a fire.
After such a fast start to the year, finding silver has gotten slow for me, though most my silver now is Barber or older. I am up to 43 (compare that to 35 at beginning of May). Let's see if I'll hit even 50 this year....
