Don in SJ
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- May 20, 2005
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My hunt today was going to be a 4 mile loop looking for a new homestead I suspect is there but once I got to my parking spot, I did not feel like a hiker today and went to Plan B, which was to walk down an old road about two blocks to where I got a KGII and KGIII copper back in 2001.
Back then I got those two coins on the road itself and would have loved to hunt the area adjoining the road, but it was severely overgrown with Green briars that you could not even walk through it, yet alone detect. I had quietly wished for a forest fire there and lo and behold, I got my wish. As I got the the area there was a fresh burn and right where I got the two coins was a nice three foot wide freshly dug fire ditch going thru the area.
I walked the ditch and it was full of very old disposed clam shells, a sure sign of an old homestead when in such numbers. But, after a half hour of looking, I found no definite site of habitation. No buttons, thimbles, or even iron objects, just some iron hits but nothing diggable.
As I was walking back to the road, sweeping the sides of the fire ditch with my XS, I got a nice copper reading in the side of the ditch. It quite did not sound like a copper coin and I was right, a bit disappointed but then when I saw that it was an almost complete knee buckle, I was rather happy then. They are not found that complete and in working order too often, so it was a great relic find for the day.
A few feet from where I dug the buckle I got a lower tone and lower reading on the Smart Screen of the XS, no way it could be a coin, wow, was I wrong.
When I first picked up the round disc I thought for sure it was a large diameter button. I looked for signs of a shank and then saw the design and lettering.
As it dried out a bit, the bust of King George appeared, so I knew now I had a coin! With that I called it a morning and headed back to my truck.
I called my son Dan, who was at the airport waiting for his plane to arrive to go to Florida (LOL, he is missing the warm weather here) and as soon as I described the coin, he said "ROSA AMERICANA" He went on to say they are usually 1722 or 1723, he found one back in 1997, that was in rather bad shape.
The reason for the low tone and reading is that the Rosa Americana is only 75% copper and the rest is basically ZINC! Zinc never does well in the ground.
The Rosa Americana coins depict King George I on the obverse with the Tudor rose on the reverse.
So I only got a few items today but one great relic and a old coin that I had not previously found that type before, so a good hunt it was.
Don
Back then I got those two coins on the road itself and would have loved to hunt the area adjoining the road, but it was severely overgrown with Green briars that you could not even walk through it, yet alone detect. I had quietly wished for a forest fire there and lo and behold, I got my wish. As I got the the area there was a fresh burn and right where I got the two coins was a nice three foot wide freshly dug fire ditch going thru the area.
I walked the ditch and it was full of very old disposed clam shells, a sure sign of an old homestead when in such numbers. But, after a half hour of looking, I found no definite site of habitation. No buttons, thimbles, or even iron objects, just some iron hits but nothing diggable.
As I was walking back to the road, sweeping the sides of the fire ditch with my XS, I got a nice copper reading in the side of the ditch. It quite did not sound like a copper coin and I was right, a bit disappointed but then when I saw that it was an almost complete knee buckle, I was rather happy then. They are not found that complete and in working order too often, so it was a great relic find for the day.
A few feet from where I dug the buckle I got a lower tone and lower reading on the Smart Screen of the XS, no way it could be a coin, wow, was I wrong.
When I first picked up the round disc I thought for sure it was a large diameter button. I looked for signs of a shank and then saw the design and lettering.
As it dried out a bit, the bust of King George appeared, so I knew now I had a coin! With that I called it a morning and headed back to my truck.I called my son Dan, who was at the airport waiting for his plane to arrive to go to Florida (LOL, he is missing the warm weather here) and as soon as I described the coin, he said "ROSA AMERICANA" He went on to say they are usually 1722 or 1723, he found one back in 1997, that was in rather bad shape.
The reason for the low tone and reading is that the Rosa Americana is only 75% copper and the rest is basically ZINC! Zinc never does well in the ground.
The Rosa Americana coins depict King George I on the obverse with the Tudor rose on the reverse.
So I only got a few items today but one great relic and a old coin that I had not previously found that type before, so a good hunt it was.
Don
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