jrsherman
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I got out with my digging buddy today to a place that he has gotten many Spanish Silver, Early American Copper, and even a few early foreign coins. Grand total I'd say he's gotten over 75 coins of that period here. What did I have? Well up until today, I had one coin, the 1775 or 76 counterfeit King George the Third copper. It always buffaloed us, since until the last 2 trips we were both using Etracs, same program, same audio, same everything except for me using headphones.
Today, the law of averages finally turned around, and in a way that I will have a hard time topping.
We'd been hunting for several hours, nothing to show, when we got into a little patch of old iron we hadn't hit before. I finally found a small cuff flat button, the only thing I dont have pictured. Then I started into a tight little spot with just enough room for a decent swing, and popped out a crusty little pancake that with a little persuasion revealed itself to be a 2 cent piece. I have been extremely fortunate to dig 2 of these thus far.
Swing, swing, swing, and swing some more, and 30 or 40 minutes later, in the middle of some briars, and 8 or 9 inches deep, I get a coin that I've been trying and trying to eke out of this site since the first trip, a 1 Reale! Don't know the details yet, but I think I could see 178- and we were pretty sure it had old Charlie the Third as I like to call him, or Carolus the Third in the good book. Here's the pictures of it as is, I won't be able to clean it until tomorrow.
After I sober up from finally getting one silver coin from this place, I figure I'll beat down some of the briars and see if perchance there's anything else there. I get a double signal type about a foot from the Reale hole, and commence digging. Just so happened it was in the middle of the briar roots and some small pine roots too, so I go to hacking away with my Lesche to clear the roots. Dig the hole, get the ProPointer out, and come up with another crusty coin. I gently remove some of the dirt, then hand it to my buddy, as he's really good at cleaning coins. He gets the clear view of this masterpiece, and promptly says SOAB. I'll let you see it the way I did for the first time, albeit on my pants instead of in the dirt.
A Virginia Half Cent. For me, this was probably going to be my Holy Grail of coins, as I most likely will be moving away from Virginia later this year. I never in my wildest dreams expected to find this coin, let alone at a site where I had never been able to pull but one coin. I can only hope the other side cleans up anywhere near as good as this, but it's going to be a crapshoot.
The other signal turned out to be a chewed up musket ball,
but at this point I was still reeling in near shock.
Thanks again Buddy, you don't know how much I appreciate you letting me hunt with you.
I hope and pray you all have as much luck as I have had today.
Thank you all for viewing, good luck and happy hunting!!
Josh R Sherman
Today, the law of averages finally turned around, and in a way that I will have a hard time topping.
We'd been hunting for several hours, nothing to show, when we got into a little patch of old iron we hadn't hit before. I finally found a small cuff flat button, the only thing I dont have pictured. Then I started into a tight little spot with just enough room for a decent swing, and popped out a crusty little pancake that with a little persuasion revealed itself to be a 2 cent piece. I have been extremely fortunate to dig 2 of these thus far.
Swing, swing, swing, and swing some more, and 30 or 40 minutes later, in the middle of some briars, and 8 or 9 inches deep, I get a coin that I've been trying and trying to eke out of this site since the first trip, a 1 Reale! Don't know the details yet, but I think I could see 178- and we were pretty sure it had old Charlie the Third as I like to call him, or Carolus the Third in the good book. Here's the pictures of it as is, I won't be able to clean it until tomorrow.
After I sober up from finally getting one silver coin from this place, I figure I'll beat down some of the briars and see if perchance there's anything else there. I get a double signal type about a foot from the Reale hole, and commence digging. Just so happened it was in the middle of the briar roots and some small pine roots too, so I go to hacking away with my Lesche to clear the roots. Dig the hole, get the ProPointer out, and come up with another crusty coin. I gently remove some of the dirt, then hand it to my buddy, as he's really good at cleaning coins. He gets the clear view of this masterpiece, and promptly says SOAB. I'll let you see it the way I did for the first time, albeit on my pants instead of in the dirt.
A Virginia Half Cent. For me, this was probably going to be my Holy Grail of coins, as I most likely will be moving away from Virginia later this year. I never in my wildest dreams expected to find this coin, let alone at a site where I had never been able to pull but one coin. I can only hope the other side cleans up anywhere near as good as this, but it's going to be a crapshoot.
The other signal turned out to be a chewed up musket ball,
but at this point I was still reeling in near shock.
Thanks again Buddy, you don't know how much I appreciate you letting me hunt with you.
I hope and pray you all have as much luck as I have had today.
Thank you all for viewing, good luck and happy hunting!!
Josh R Sherman
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