Hello All,
Met up with Shangalangalangalangalang and went to try out a new spot we've been scouting.
First hunt on this property turned up some low-mintage seated coins before summer, then Shang hunted it a couple times and got another seated (half dime), then moved over and got a federal era pocket watch winder, musketballs in another field. We decided to brave the 100 degree weather and humidity and I got out early to hit a field where we've dug Civil War relics in the past.
Ended up with a pocket watch winder of my own (the plain loop kind) and this nice silver monogrammed collar button made by Krementz between roughly 1870 and 1920.
Here's an original display case for selling these buttons, which were for detachable collars for mens' dress shirts.
I LOVE this little relic. Here is a fascinating article about the company:
https://www.jckonline.com/magazine-article/krementz-co-an-american-story/
I also dug a shield nickel which I didn't film:
And this unusual item. Anyone seen anything like this before?
Then I joined Shangbert at the new site and we started detecting where the previous seated coins had turned up. After lots of digging and little to show I got a nice big "dandy" button and a carved 3 ringer. Then lazily swinging from the truck back to where I was before my water/ice break, an 84 signal screamed through the F75. Flipping up a plug on the hard packed turn row I saw a silver quarter staring back at me. Farmer dropped Washington.
Not what I was looking for, but silver is silver. Then we decided to hit the field where ole Shangsterdam had dug those musketballs. On the way there, we saw a strip where "seed cane" had been removed. I jumped right in and took three swings and immediately heard a perfect 78 signal at 10 inches deep. Expecting another silver quarter (the last one had read higher than normal because it was an inch deep), I dug carefully and flipped out another quarter! Bending down and getting my knees in the stinky mud in the bottom of the row I could tell that it was a SEATED!!
We beat that spot to death but believe it or not there was nothing else to be found! ANOTHER farmer drop! At that point we regrouped in the truck for some A/C and ice water!
Then after our break we went to the field where Shanguloid had dug that watch winder, musketballs, and other antebellum bits. We started gridding anew since seed cane had been buried in the rows. We indeed started digging musketballs and the occasional flat button, which gave us hope! Then Shangadilly yelled "Hi Ho!" and I knew he had a SILVER. It was a slick 1840(-O?) Seated Half Dime! Three silver coin day out in the fields in summer isn't too shabby!
Here are all the finds:
I'm stoked with this Seated Quarter--easily the nicest one I've dug. Congrats to Shangalang on his excellent finds too--lets do it again, buddy, if we don't get a tropical storm on us!
Cheers,
Buck
Met up with Shangalangalangalangalang and went to try out a new spot we've been scouting.
First hunt on this property turned up some low-mintage seated coins before summer, then Shang hunted it a couple times and got another seated (half dime), then moved over and got a federal era pocket watch winder, musketballs in another field. We decided to brave the 100 degree weather and humidity and I got out early to hit a field where we've dug Civil War relics in the past.
Ended up with a pocket watch winder of my own (the plain loop kind) and this nice silver monogrammed collar button made by Krementz between roughly 1870 and 1920.
Here's an original display case for selling these buttons, which were for detachable collars for mens' dress shirts.
I LOVE this little relic. Here is a fascinating article about the company:
https://www.jckonline.com/magazine-article/krementz-co-an-american-story/
I also dug a shield nickel which I didn't film:
And this unusual item. Anyone seen anything like this before?
Then I joined Shangbert at the new site and we started detecting where the previous seated coins had turned up. After lots of digging and little to show I got a nice big "dandy" button and a carved 3 ringer. Then lazily swinging from the truck back to where I was before my water/ice break, an 84 signal screamed through the F75. Flipping up a plug on the hard packed turn row I saw a silver quarter staring back at me. Farmer dropped Washington.
Not what I was looking for, but silver is silver.
Then we decided to hit the field where ole Shangsterdam had dug those musketballs. On the way there, we saw a strip where "seed cane" had been removed. I jumped right in and took three swings and immediately heard a perfect 78 signal at 10 inches deep. Expecting another silver quarter (the last one had read higher than normal because it was an inch deep), I dug carefully and flipped out another quarter! Bending down and getting my knees in the stinky mud in the bottom of the row I could tell that it was a SEATED!!
We beat that spot to death but believe it or not there was nothing else to be found! ANOTHER farmer drop! At that point we regrouped in the truck for some A/C and ice water!
Then after our break we went to the field where Shanguloid had dug that watch winder, musketballs, and other antebellum bits. We started gridding anew since seed cane had been buried in the rows. We indeed started digging musketballs and the occasional flat button, which gave us hope! Then Shangadilly yelled "Hi Ho!" and I knew he had a SILVER. It was a slick 1840(-O?) Seated Half Dime! Three silver coin day out in the fields in summer isn't too shabby!
Here are all the finds:
I'm stoked with this Seated Quarter--easily the nicest one I've dug. Congrats to Shangalang on his excellent finds too--lets do it again, buddy, if we don't get a tropical storm on us!
Cheers,
Buck
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