Old Cabin finds

suwannee pirate

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My new neighbor just took a frontendloader to a real nice old log cabin on the back of his property and pushed it into a pile.I am learning the tones in my excalibur and took it over there for a while today.There is a lot of trash from the demolished cabin mixed in with the dirt so its real good practice. I found two shotgun brass ends a brass minature light bulb a 1945-D wheat penny a 1943 nickle and a1957-1960 dime,yea thats right a 1957-1960 silver dime two headed! Whoever done it did a good job on it . I only spent about an hour there,need to go back and see what else is there .AFTER I get the straight shaft I ordered from Mark .This excalibur is really cumbersome the way its designed. Good luck Bob
 

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Neat finds...there should be more. Gogitem!!

HH :)
 

Gypsy Heart

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WTG...There should be alot more there if that was a log cabin....Good Luck and hope to see some more great finds
 

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Nice find's,you should ask if there are any more place's around....HH!!
 

Smartin

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Suwannee,

Interesting finds. A double headed dime? Did they have outhouses in Fl. ?
I know the elevation in most areas might make a outhouse kinda difficult.
Just curious, I lived in Naples for a few years.

Smartin
 

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Ohhh... :'( It seems so sad to me for an old homestead to be gone forever. I have found several pieces of silver at the log house I hunted last month. I had to go back a couple of times and still may go back and look again! ;)

Congrats on your finds and hope you find many more!

Nana ;)
 

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Sounds like a place with some promise. That 2-headed dime is a great find.

I hope you're going back, pirate.
 

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Thanks, I plan on going back this weekend,its just twenty feet past my property line in the woods . the cabin was pretty old made out of 6 inch logs and later covered with asphalt type roll roofing with a later add on room. If I had known that it would be destroyed I would have had it moved to my property. What is left sure doesn't look like a log cabin. It was most likely slave or sharecropper quarters as this was a major agricultural area long ago. I haven't found the outhouse area as of yet as I haven't had the time .But I found two small pit dumps on my property next to the cabin area . I have not had the time to investigate those yet .I have a friend that likes to dig bottles and I will let him do those as he has not found any new sites for several years and those will cheer him up [been grumpy]. With some luck I may have a few more good finds there .The guy with the loader really tore the place up and I think he may of even buried some of the place.There are old sink holes on most of the old farms around here that are a cornucopia of old discarded treasures but you have to dig down through 20 feet of modern trash to get down to the real old stuff. Bob
 

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Cool finds! Tsgman
 

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Very cool find, can you show a close up of the obverse and reverse? Just curious. HH, Mike
 

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Here are both sides of the dime ,sorry about the crummy camera, couldn't get it to show any more detail Bob
 

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Smartin

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Bob,

I never new there were double headed coins. I'm not a coin person and have never really been interested in coins, but I'm becoming interested as I'm finding old coins.

Thanks for the pictures.

Smartin
 

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Rare to say the least!!! If it's real then it's worth some bucks. Vern
 

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I don't know how rare they are .I belive that it is two dimes sliced into and sodered back together ,in order to take unfair advantage of a sucker in a gambeling situation. I don't understand why the different dates ,thats a big tell . Bob
 

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I like your coins Bob. I've been noticing a lot of very interesting relics lately from over there. Nice to find silver though. Angela :)
 

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