Don in SJ
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- May 20, 2005
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Took a nice hike this morning to a isolated site that I found last year and was meaning to get back to, but wish I had gotten there before the foliage started to fill out. Anyway, the site is not a fun one, some nice open areas, but most of it is rather brushy with some greenbriar, but the kicker is, there are bullets of all calibers in the ground from an old nearby rifle range that evidently did not have a very high backstop area years ago.
So, coin readings were bullet reading, button reading were other types of bullet readings and it was dig all an hope it wasn't another cotton pickin bullet!
I finally found a place where the bullets were less and the iron hits increased and got rewarded with a early flat gold gilt button. Now I had hopes of finding some old stuff! A few minutes later I got my first and unfortunately my only coin for the morning, but I knew it was a colonial by the look of it and rather not so round of condition! Shortly after that I got a match to the first gilt button I found and then a nice tombac style button.
I plan on hitting this site again when I have more time, don't think I hunted more that 45 minutes today, spent way too much time exploring and walking, over a half hour brisk walk just to reach this homestead.
Getting a coin for May is good enough now and time to relax some, that was my 12th 1700 era copper coin for the year, so not complaining one bit. Oh the coin is a 1776 (fairly certain it is a 6 and not a 5) King George III Irish Halfpenny. It is in good shape but being a counterfeit it was not struck well and the features are weak despite a pleasantly smooth planchet............. (It is a lightweight so it is a counterfeit, weighs only 110.5 grains)
Don
So, coin readings were bullet reading, button reading were other types of bullet readings and it was dig all an hope it wasn't another cotton pickin bullet!
I finally found a place where the bullets were less and the iron hits increased and got rewarded with a early flat gold gilt button. Now I had hopes of finding some old stuff! A few minutes later I got my first and unfortunately my only coin for the morning, but I knew it was a colonial by the look of it and rather not so round of condition! Shortly after that I got a match to the first gilt button I found and then a nice tombac style button.
I plan on hitting this site again when I have more time, don't think I hunted more that 45 minutes today, spent way too much time exploring and walking, over a half hour brisk walk just to reach this homestead.
Getting a coin for May is good enough now and time to relax some, that was my 12th 1700 era copper coin for the year, so not complaining one bit. Oh the coin is a 1776 (fairly certain it is a 6 and not a 5) King George III Irish Halfpenny. It is in good shape but being a counterfeit it was not struck well and the features are weak despite a pleasantly smooth planchet............. (It is a lightweight so it is a counterfeit, weighs only 110.5 grains)
Don
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