Metal Illness
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- Jul 1, 2011
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Hey gang, hope everyone is well. I have been busy swinging, just not taking the time to post.........Sorry. I've been back in the fields since Sept. found a couple new sites and couldn't find 2-3 other sites. The LCs are from a site I first hunted last winter, without finding a coin. This season in two trips I found 2 Lcs each time, yesterday and 5-6 days ago. The 1851 is really pretty sweet for a field find LC. Picked up a Flint, Indian knife/scraper as well.
The next site is a new permission and first time there, skunked on the coinage but the 3 Civil War Buttons made up for that!, throw in a suspender clip, clay marble and broken trade pipe stem (surface finds) with yesterday's LCs and Flint Knife it made for a great day, I was due. I have been pounding 2 worn out sites with very meager results over the last 2-3 weeks.
Then you hit a new site and wa-laaa a CW Button from Maryland shows up under your coil here in South West Ohio, we just never know do we? I included a picture after a water rinse, and after an olive oil soak and 1 1/2 hours picking with toothpicks.
Can anyone help with ID on the "Flat" Eagle button bottom left? My friend believes manufactured between 1854-1872. I can't make out the back stamp it's brittle and cracked, afraid to pick it.
PS: Last year on Dec 13th I had found 13 LCs in 4 years of door knocks and parks exclusively, with ZERO coming from the parks. On Dec. 14th 2014 I found and hunted my first Field Site, I have found 30 LCs since. One UNREAL site has produced 22 LCs, I have 20 and my friend and his wife each found one. Although most are field grade corroded, I do have 4-5 decent ones and still get just as big of a thrill as the first one I found!
The next site is a new permission and first time there, skunked on the coinage but the 3 Civil War Buttons made up for that!, throw in a suspender clip, clay marble and broken trade pipe stem (surface finds) with yesterday's LCs and Flint Knife it made for a great day, I was due. I have been pounding 2 worn out sites with very meager results over the last 2-3 weeks.
Then you hit a new site and wa-laaa a CW Button from Maryland shows up under your coil here in South West Ohio, we just never know do we? I included a picture after a water rinse, and after an olive oil soak and 1 1/2 hours picking with toothpicks.
Can anyone help with ID on the "Flat" Eagle button bottom left? My friend believes manufactured between 1854-1872. I can't make out the back stamp it's brittle and cracked, afraid to pick it.
PS: Last year on Dec 13th I had found 13 LCs in 4 years of door knocks and parks exclusively, with ZERO coming from the parks. On Dec. 14th 2014 I found and hunted my first Field Site, I have found 30 LCs since. One UNREAL site has produced 22 LCs, I have 20 and my friend and his wife each found one. Although most are field grade corroded, I do have 4-5 decent ones and still get just as big of a thrill as the first one I found!
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