Union eagle breast plate and a bucket-lister, plus big thanks to fellow T-netter

[rastinirv]

I had planned a 5-day road trip to drive around and stop and detect whenever the mood struck. About a week before leaving, though, my van was broken into and they stole my detector, a Teknetics T2SE. So big BIG thanks to WV1978, who saved the day by loaning me his spare detector, a very nice Teknetics G2, so I could still go detecting.

First day out was my best day. I was not far from Fredericksburg, VA. I found an almost-complete eagle breast plate (my second -- I found another one years ago). A few minutes later I dug up my first-ever 2-cent piece. It's pretty toasty but I think I can make out a date of 1869.

Then there were a few other finds that I also posted on What Is It?. The button, which looks like it may have been silver-plated, and which has old-looking marks on the back with a crown and wreath. No lettering that I can make out.

There's the little horseshoe-shaped thing, which is bronze, maybe, and a flat lead piece which appears to have a figure on it in relief. No idea what any of these are.

Thanks for looking!

 

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[Rookster]

Awesome finds.Congrats

 

[thrifty76now]

Congrats on those great finds.

 

[Joe hunter]

Nice finds congratulations

 

[A2coins]

great finds and great friends sounds like a great day

 

[texjim]

Nice finds. Hate to hear about your stuff getting swiped.

 

[rastinirv]

Nice finds. Hate to hear about your stuff getting swiped.

Thanks. One of those things. Detector cost $900, insurance deductible is $1000. So it goes.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice variety of finds.

 

[HillBilly244]

Very cool finds buddy! That breast plate is on my bucket list.

 

[JmCraz8]

Great finds gotta love the T2 its a beast lol

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the awesome relic hunt!

 

[Peyton Manning]

Congratualtions on the awesome relic hunt!

ditto

 

[TerryC]

Crown and wreath.... Canadian? ╦╦Ç

 

[Hawks88]

Nice assortment of finds. Congrats.

 

[the_mad_cladder]

Nice finds. Looks like your 2 cent is almost as toasty as mine. Still looks good in the display though. Great finds and great of wv1978 to lend you the detector! He gave me an awesome finds pouch that I use today. He coulda sold it for 20-40 bucks on eBay. Good people on tnet.
Thieves are lame he should be de-handed. I hope he digs up a live wire with the stolen detector. If you have the receipt or serial number you might check with the pawn shops in the area and craigslist.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Sorry about you getting ripped off. People suck.

Congrats on all of the nice finds. Well done sir.

 

[UnderMiner]

Great eagle plate, the last person to hold that before you was likely fighting for his life in the war!

 

[relic nut]

Those are some great finds! Congratulations. Sorry to hear about your detector, hope they get what's coming to thim.

 

[A2coins]

theres more good people in this world than bad sorry to hear that happened glad you had a good time and great finds tnet family is awesome thats a banner story

 

[A2coins]

i wish you could do a go fund me on here/ I bet with all the clad we have laying around and good people we would be more than happy to chip in a little