A rare winter hunt with Spanish, W&M, and KGiii gaming tokens

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A rare winter hunt with Spanish, W&M, and KGiii gaming tokens

It’s been quite a while since I’ve tuned into Tnet. I haven’t been out hunting due to working away, putting family first, and just life’s crap in general.

I decided to put some new life into an old site by digging out a pile resulting from a collapsed chimney. I’ve avoided it for quite a while but it was time to dig. Helping me were my two kiddos today. We had a great time, moved about a half ton of stone, and scored some keepers.

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The first decent tone was turned out to be a 1/2 reale, 178X.

Then a few tokens popped out, after chasing some mid tones through the iron.
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They seemed to be cast in a tin/lead alloy.
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Some usually bits and bobs. And what I think to be a William and Mary 1/2 penny. Quite the patina ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1581716129.629235.jpg
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In all it was a fun day with the kids. It was in the high 20’s so the weather was cooperating. ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1581716279.484209.jpg ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1581716317.554093.jpg

Hopefully I’ll get out a bit more now that life has settled out again. I’ll be doing a trip in March with my detecting group Basstards of Bramble. Maybe there will be something to post then.
I’ve dug quite a lot of good stuff early in the winter including lots of state coppers I never posted. Maybe I’ll make a recap post on a down day.


Enjoy and good hunts,

Steve
 

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Make the recap post we need to see these coppers! Excellent post! If I could find that stuff by moving a few tons of earth by golly i'd do it!!! Congrats on the cool stuff!
 

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Awesome hunt! spending time hunting with your kids...priceless! :notworthy:
 

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Make the recap post we need to see these coppers! Excellent post! If I could find that stuff by moving a few tons of earth by golly i'd do it!!! Congrats on the cool stuff!

Thanks C Stx. The site has been averaging 1-2 coin per 1000lbs of rubble removed. Only coins and thimbles from the pile, everything else was around the edges.
 

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Awesome results Steve. Great thing you're still able to go on a hunt, it's pretty much frozen world over here.
 

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