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- Apr 20, 2018
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I had time after my appointment today so I went to a park I have hunted a few times before. I usually find clad and an occasional goodie, but I don’t expect a lot of old things from this location. It is fairly trashy and I suspect from the items I find that at one time it was an old dump.
I was finding some coins and the usual copper and brass items when bam out pops a green disk that looks like it might be a quarter, but it is too green and it just doesn’t look right. I rub a little and it turns out to be a classic head half cent. It’s kind of toasty and pitted from the acid soil, but I can see the first number is 1 and the last is a 0. The only date these coins were minted that fits the placement of numbers is 1810, none were minted in 1820 or 1830. What a nice surprise. I haven’t found a half cent in over 2 years.
All in all I found 34 coins with a face value of $3.45, what looks like a brass fitting for an wooden toilet seat, the brass male end of an air hose, an organ reed and what looks like a safe dial. The dial is brass and is ornately decorated with hash marks like a combination dial, but it doesn’t have any numbers on it and there is a button in the middle that was attached to a small wire that fell out in my bag and got lost. Any help on confirming or correcting my assessment would be appreciated.
I said this place has a lot of trash so here is some of the larger pieces. Two ferrous pieces that look like parts of wheel hubs, a coal mine pick (I told you in my last post this is a coal mining area and here is more proof) most of an old outside mount door lock, a railroad spike and my big copper.
The big copper is part of a 1/4 inch thick sheet. I knew it wasn’t ferrous when I dug it but I wasn’t share it was copper until I scraped the edge with my trowel. It’s pretty heavy (at least 2 pounds) so it will bring a few dollars at the scrap yard. I recycle a lot of metal including aluminum, copper, brass and iron/steel. Very little goes in the trash.
Another fun hunt. There is just so much good stuff out there in the ground I cannot ever get enough of digging it out. The half cent really got me excited today. My clad is pilling up so i better get the tumbler working so I can cash it in.
Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
I was finding some coins and the usual copper and brass items when bam out pops a green disk that looks like it might be a quarter, but it is too green and it just doesn’t look right. I rub a little and it turns out to be a classic head half cent. It’s kind of toasty and pitted from the acid soil, but I can see the first number is 1 and the last is a 0. The only date these coins were minted that fits the placement of numbers is 1810, none were minted in 1820 or 1830. What a nice surprise. I haven’t found a half cent in over 2 years.
All in all I found 34 coins with a face value of $3.45, what looks like a brass fitting for an wooden toilet seat, the brass male end of an air hose, an organ reed and what looks like a safe dial. The dial is brass and is ornately decorated with hash marks like a combination dial, but it doesn’t have any numbers on it and there is a button in the middle that was attached to a small wire that fell out in my bag and got lost. Any help on confirming or correcting my assessment would be appreciated.
I said this place has a lot of trash so here is some of the larger pieces. Two ferrous pieces that look like parts of wheel hubs, a coal mine pick (I told you in my last post this is a coal mining area and here is more proof) most of an old outside mount door lock, a railroad spike and my big copper.
The big copper is part of a 1/4 inch thick sheet. I knew it wasn’t ferrous when I dug it but I wasn’t share it was copper until I scraped the edge with my trowel. It’s pretty heavy (at least 2 pounds) so it will bring a few dollars at the scrap yard. I recycle a lot of metal including aluminum, copper, brass and iron/steel. Very little goes in the trash.
Another fun hunt. There is just so much good stuff out there in the ground I cannot ever get enough of digging it out. The half cent really got me excited today. My clad is pilling up so i better get the tumbler working so I can cash it in.
Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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