Didn’t know I would be “extra rich” today

[Barrydang]

Flat button broken shank, but it gives me hope maybe I am missing those coins with my detector.
L& Kendrick extra rich with alil bit of the gold
Gilting on the back. I’m back in the early to mid 1800’s again atleast.

 

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[Calabash Digger]

nice!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the flat button.

 

[A2coins]

Pretty good hunt sweet button

 

[HIGHSTRUNG]

Awesome! Congrats!

 

[GaRebel1861]

You're hunting in the right area for sure.

 

[Steve in PA]

That's the way it goes digging flat buttons. One day you're "Extra Rich", the next you're "Superfine". And every once in a while you're "Gilt"y

 

[WG2020]

Barrydang....Question...I also found a nice heavily gilted gold button with some black gunk on it...what is the best way to clean it...thanks in advance...good luck with your hunts. Walt

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Tomtom401]

Barrydang....Question...I also found a nice heavily gilted gold button with some black gunk on it...what is the best way to clean it...thanks in advance...good luck with your hunts. Walt

I don’t know how barrydang cleans his buttons but I use a 50/50 mixture of the works toilet bowl cleaner and water with a light toothbrush cleaning. This is probably not a good idea and might make people cringe but for me it works.

Before


After

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice job on the flat button!

 

[Barrydang]

I have used tooth brush and vinegar and rinse it off. I don’t see where it helped or really hurt it. It seems to get some more of the crud off and make the letters more visible. Aquachigger pn youtube has a video of exactly
What he does with his buttons is ya wanna watch that. Here is an after photo

 

[WG2020]

Barrydang and TomTom,

Thank you for the fast replies. While it is hard to find nice treasures, I find it harder to bring them back to life so that they are recognizable as something worth displaying. Good luck with your hunts. Walt

 

[Barrydang]

Barrydang and TomTom,

Thank you for the fast replies. While it is hard to find nice treasures, I find it harder to bringing them back to life so that they are recognizable as something worth displaying. Good luck with your hunts. Walt

Your welcome! Not a problem I am still very new to this myself. Hope that button cleans up nice I want to display all my finds from my grandparents property. It’s a history no one I started by looking for modern coins in the yard and accidentally found a near 200 yr old flatbutton.Good luck. Here is a picture of my finds on the property how i display them. Here is a picture Of how I have them displayed. Prolly not uncommon from anyone else Display. The half came from another place I just didn’t want it to get mixed up with my junk silver coins. Happy hunting!