Possum
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- Nov 22, 2017
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab CTX 3030 and Equinox 800, XP Deus, Shadow X5, Shadow X2, Fisher F44, Whites Coinmaster, and Tesoro Compadre'
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Well today Truth and I made another trip back to āFort St.Johnā or the āOld Spanish Fortā. Truth just got his new 15ā coil for his Equinox and he was out the gate running and nailing an IHP right off the bat.
Things were a bit slower for me, I was running my 14ā Elliptical Coiltek on my CTX and besides some trash and clads the first thing I found worth mentioning was a flat round piece of lead with a hole through the middle. Neither of us have any idea what it was or used for, maybe someone here can ID it for me.
I dug a little more trash, you know the common stuff nails, bottle tops, can slaw and the likes until I detected by a huge live oak that Iāve been around more times than I can remember. Iām a sucker for those huge horizontal live oak limbs that I call āKids Climbing and swinging limbsā, which are as big as a regular tree themselves. Anyhow, I was starting to sweep under one and got a solid 12 / 43 on the CTX, but it was only audible one way and when it did hit, it showed seven (7) inches in depth, so I decided this one Iāll dig even though itās only hitting at only one angle.
Well of course it was right in the middle of a bifurcation of two (2) huge roots, but it was slow and I wasnāt giving up on it just yet. I dug between the roots and when I probed It with my pin pointer, I knocked some dirt loose along the left side bifurcated root where my pin pointer was going nuts and just under the root I could see about a Ā½ inch of the rim of a large silver coin!!! The remaining 7/8[SUP]th[/SUP] of it was still under the root. I began calling Truth on the two-way and when he got there, he couldnāt believe his eyeās. I tried taking pics of it while under the root, but I think my gloves messed me up and I missed the shot.
We gently recovered it, still not knowing exactly what it was and once out of the ground, Truth said āCongrats Possum, Youāre the proud owner of a āFranklin Half Dollarā, being a relic hunter, I had no Idea what a āFranklin Half Dollarā was, but I do know!!!
After finding the āFranklin Halfā my luck ran out and it was back to clad pennies, dimes and a Quarterā¦ Oh, I did pull out a nice āsquare nail and a square spikeā, which I included in the pics below, just for the heck of it.
The only thing pictured that I didnāt find today was the piece of black coal looking stuff with metal slivers inside that drove me, my CTX and my pin pointer crazy the other day trying to isolate it in that black clay around the parapet of the fort. Iām not sure what it is, maybe itās what some call āCokeā, please correct me if Iām wrong, but itās very light, about 1 1/2ā x 3/8ā x 1/4ā.
Hope yāall enjoy the pics, thanks for looking, take care, HH and may God Bless!!! āDā
Things were a bit slower for me, I was running my 14ā Elliptical Coiltek on my CTX and besides some trash and clads the first thing I found worth mentioning was a flat round piece of lead with a hole through the middle. Neither of us have any idea what it was or used for, maybe someone here can ID it for me.
I dug a little more trash, you know the common stuff nails, bottle tops, can slaw and the likes until I detected by a huge live oak that Iāve been around more times than I can remember. Iām a sucker for those huge horizontal live oak limbs that I call āKids Climbing and swinging limbsā, which are as big as a regular tree themselves. Anyhow, I was starting to sweep under one and got a solid 12 / 43 on the CTX, but it was only audible one way and when it did hit, it showed seven (7) inches in depth, so I decided this one Iāll dig even though itās only hitting at only one angle.
Well of course it was right in the middle of a bifurcation of two (2) huge roots, but it was slow and I wasnāt giving up on it just yet. I dug between the roots and when I probed It with my pin pointer, I knocked some dirt loose along the left side bifurcated root where my pin pointer was going nuts and just under the root I could see about a Ā½ inch of the rim of a large silver coin!!! The remaining 7/8[SUP]th[/SUP] of it was still under the root. I began calling Truth on the two-way and when he got there, he couldnāt believe his eyeās. I tried taking pics of it while under the root, but I think my gloves messed me up and I missed the shot.
We gently recovered it, still not knowing exactly what it was and once out of the ground, Truth said āCongrats Possum, Youāre the proud owner of a āFranklin Half Dollarā, being a relic hunter, I had no Idea what a āFranklin Half Dollarā was, but I do know!!!
After finding the āFranklin Halfā my luck ran out and it was back to clad pennies, dimes and a Quarterā¦ Oh, I did pull out a nice āsquare nail and a square spikeā, which I included in the pics below, just for the heck of it.
The only thing pictured that I didnāt find today was the piece of black coal looking stuff with metal slivers inside that drove me, my CTX and my pin pointer crazy the other day trying to isolate it in that black clay around the parapet of the fort. Iām not sure what it is, maybe itās what some call āCokeā, please correct me if Iām wrong, but itās very light, about 1 1/2ā x 3/8ā x 1/4ā.
Hope yāall enjoy the pics, thanks for looking, take care, HH and may God Bless!!! āDā
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