A week we'll not forget! Trine, half dime, buttons, & more. Late war civil war camps.

DirtyMike&Tab

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A week we'll not forget! Trine, half dime, buttons, & more. Late war civil war camps.

So Tab and myself have been hunting some camps related to Sheridans Valley Campaign. We have followed through a few of his camps and battles along this campaign route. One of the camps we have hunted for a few years now. That camp is what started our research from where his men was before and after this particular camp. At some point, in one corner of the camp there was a confederate camp. We have found several confederate relics over the years in that area of the camp. Now that we are living in southern Deleware we don't get out in those camps as much as we would like. Well spring break was this past week and we decided to make the best of it. With the weather cooperating. We put the coil to the soil. The first spot we always go to is the confederate section in search of the illusive confederate relics. Unfortunately there were no CS plates or buttons but we did manage some good rebel bullets and our first silver coin for the week. It's a 1851 o Trine (3 cent piece). Moving on to more productive spots on the camp we went on to find some more good relics including another silver coin. This one ended up being a 1839 seated half dime. Our week was filled with signal after signal. Buttons, bullets, and brass. Here are all of our finds from this week.
1851 o Trine
1839 Seated Half Dime
1863 Indian Head Penny
18?? Large Cent (braided hair)
Eagle c overcoat button
Staff officers cuff button
5 General service eagle buttons (3 w/shanks)
4 Button backs
Iron underwear button
US bit boss
1/2 Crossed sabers cavalry insignia (broken)
Broken spur
2 Musket sling hooks
Percussion cap
Brass ring
Suspender buckle
Shoulder scale key
Burnside bullet casing
3 knapsack hooks
1 j-hook
Book clasp
Harmonica reeds
5- carved bullets
5- 69 cal.
16- 58 cal.
2- sharps
3- Williams cleaners
1- enfield
3- Gardner's
and a bunch of melted lead

We are a little busy for a couple months and won't be able to get out too much but when we do I'll be sure to share. We hope all of you find your find of a lifetime!
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KENTUCKYWONDER

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What a great week of digging, wonderful finds, congratulations!
 

relic nut

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WOW!!!! Great hunt! You are on a great site. Thanks for saving the history. [emoji106]

HH, RN
 

Tpmetal

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thats quite a haul of lead, nice job!
 

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Killer hunt! :notworthy:
 

Scrappy

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Great bit boss and spur frag. Very nice holed silver to boot. Congrats
 

dirtlooter

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somebody was very busy, awesome collection of great finds
 

btjbtj

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We've gone cross-eyed ogling all that great stuff! Congrats!! -Lisa & John
 

CASPER-2

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cjon455

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Omg! Thats a week for the ages!! Congrats on some great great finds!!:notworthy:
 

moosescout

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Beautiful coin. My oldest coin is a 1852 trime. Postage had gone down from 5 cents to 3 cents. 3 largies were too big so they created the silver trime. Smallest silver coin made. At first they were 75% silver then in 1854 they went to 90% silver.
 

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Your nicely recovered what most of us dream of finding.
 

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