1c,2c,10c and MORE!!!

[fishstick]

Hey all. Got to do some swinging this weekend at two new spots. Both were found on a new map I just got hold of from 1867. First site was occupied longer than the other do to some of the finds ran up into the early 20th c. The heartbreaker of the hunt was a token from a local town that got chewed up from farming. The watch fob is from sedwick&sons livestock merch from Indianapolis, IND and is kool as heck. A couple of injuns was the only coins which was sad. The religious piece I would like to know more of. The lil' clock piece I'm not sure of but isn't not real.The clay marble is sitting in a ring. Several buttons but the GS eagle was a nice surprise with a C on it and no backmark.

The second site was a BLAST!!! No sooner did I turn on my machine I got a injun. A few more feet then BAM, first seated!!! Not much farther and SLAM, got the heel plate ( which is a 1st ). This went on for a while digging shotgun shells galore, which you have to dig because they come up in the button range. Eyeballed the swastika button and rite after got a sweet signal and pull out the button with some sort of roman figure I guess. My favorite button in a while!!!! Another seated and a few more injuns then the 2center!!!! Hellava hunt!!!!

As you can see in the pic lots of junk. I think I got an old door handle and a curry comb? Not sure on them so any info would be great. Till the next hunt!!! GL&HH.....

 

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[fishstick]

A few of the pics won't upload because of size, sorry.

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice variety there. Two seateds in one hunt, I can't find a seated silver to save my soul. The cavalry button and the heel plate are cool finds as well.

 

[Z.K.]

Wonderful finds, Fishstick! So much history to remark on there...i'll be checking back on this thread as folks weigh in, but the heel plate and watchfob are my favs thus far

 

[Loco-Digger]

Awesome digs FS. You pulled some nice coins and relics. 8 keeper coins in one hunt is outstanding.

 

[frostdigger]

Awesome hunt, the fob is definatly cool. The coins speak for themselves. Congratulations

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Great hunt fishstick Thats a bunch of nice relics and coins.

 

[GA_Boy]

Lamp shade screw holding in your fingers?
Nice digs.
Marvin

 

[Captain Caveman]

Congratz on an awesome hunt! Seated, IHP and 2 cent all on the same hunt? Very nice! The 2 cent is still on my bucket list.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Very impressive set of finds. Great relics and coins. Well played sir!

 

[Reelsnrods]

Beautiful finds and great range of stuff. Congrats!

 

[trapperart]

Great bunch of finds congrats on all

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

That's a pile of nice coins for a single hunt. Lots of other interesting finds too. Nice going!!

 

[thrifty76now]

Well fishstick I would certainly say that was an awesome hunt and with two seated to boot.Come by now. thrifty

 

[fishstick]

Lamp shade screw holding in your fingers?
Nice digs.
Marvin

Your guess is as good as mine. Good thgt tho. Thanx

 

[fishstick]

To answer your question on the religious object. It's got St. Benedict on it. To be clear, the following information is about the full St. Benedict Medal, rather than a pendant. All the information about it, is included for your reference, however. I pulled this information for you from the Catholic Encyclopedia:

A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict.

One side of the medal bears an image of St. Benedict, holding a cross in the right hand and the Holy Rule in the left. On the one side of the image is a cup, on the other a raven, and above the cup and the raven are inscribed the words: "Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti" (Cross of the Holy Father Benedict). Round the margin of the medal stands the legend "Ejus in obitu nro praesentia muniamur" (May we at our death be fortified by his presence). The reverse of the medal bears a cross with the initial letters of the words: "Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux" (The Holy Cross be my light), written downward on the perpendicular bar; the initial letters of the words, "Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux" (Let not the dragon be my guide), on the horizontal bar; and the initial letters of "Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti" in the angles of the cross. Round the margin stand the initial letters of the distich: "Vade Retro Satana, Nunquam Suade Mihi Vana — Sunt Mala Quae Libas, Ipse Venena Bibas" (Begone, Satan, do not suggest to me thy vanities — evil are the things thou profferest, drink thou thy own poison). At the top of the cross usually stands the word Pax (peace) or the monogram I H S (Jesus).

The medal just described is the so-called jubilee medal, which was struck first in 1880, to commemorate the fourteenth centenary of St. Benedict's birth. The Archabbey of Monte Cassino has the exclusive right to strike this medal. The ordinary medal of St. Benedict usually differs from the preceding in the omission of the words "Ejus in obitu etc.", and in a few minor details. (For the indulgences connected with it see Beringer, "Die Ablässe", Paderborn, 1906, p. 404-6.) The habitual wearer of the jubilee medal can gain all the indulgences connected with the ordinary medal and, in addition: (1) all the indulgences that could be gained by visiting the basilica, crypt, and tower of St. Benedict at Monte Cassino (Pius IX, 31 December, 1877); (2) a plenary indulgence on the feast of All Souls (from about two o'clock in the afternoon of 1 November to sunset of 2 November), as often as (toties quoties), after confession and Holy Communion, he visits any church or public oratory, praying there according to the intention of the pope, provided that he is hindered from visiting a church or public oratory of the Benedictines by sickness, monastic enclosure or a distance of at least 1000 steps. (Decr. 27 February, 1907, in Acta S. Sedis, LX, 246.) Any priest may receive the faculties to bless these medals.

It is doubtful when the Medal of St. Benedict originated. During a trial for witchcraft at Natternberg near the Abbey of Metten in Bavaria in the year 1647, the accused women testified that they had no power over Metten, which was under the protection of the cross. Upon investigation, a number of painted crosses, surrounded by the letters which are now found on Benedictine medals, were found on the walls of the abbey, but their meaning had been forgotten. Finally, in an old manuscript, written in 1415, was found a picture representing St. Benedict holding in one hand a staff which ends in a cross, and a scroll in the other. On the staff and scroll were written in full the words of which the mysterious letters were the initials. Medals bearing the image of St. Benedict, a cross, and these letters began now to be struck in Germany, and soon spread over Europe. They were first approved by Benedict XIV in his briefs of 23 December, 1741, and 12 March, 1742.

That is some serious info there bud!! Thanx

 

[fishstick]

That's a pile of nice coins for a single hunt. Lots of other interesting finds too. Nice going!!

Coming from you Bill that is a HONOR!!!!! THANX

 

[fishstick]

Well fishstick I would certainly say that was an awesome hunt and with two seated to boot.Come by now. thrifty

Thank you KEN. We DEF need to get together soon..

 

[DigIron2]

Allot of nice finds there. all quality condition too.Wish my dirt was so kind. Wtg FS.

 

[Eastcoasthunter21]

Nice digs love those seated coins. Hh gl