πŸ₯‡ BANNER Slow start to the year but golden results

smokeythecat

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The ol' cat is getting old. I really skipped the summer season, haven't View attachment IMG_1410.jpg View attachment IMG_1412.jpg been feeling all that well. Soooo....a few weeks ago a few of us started going over some of our old honey holes. We went to some of best areas from last year. A couple we had hit so hard so didn't find much. Another was just a plain bust.
ance of actually finding something. A few of us found minies ( I did not find any.) I headed with one friend up a little hill and got a nice, flat c
The third site, which I have taken a few people two was looking like a disappointment also, however the farmer had (gasp) actually turned the soil so now there was a better cholonial button in amongst some coal scraps and a lot of iron nails. It took forever but I finally got a nice silver cufflink, a few more buttons and a breast plate or horse tack piece, it's hard to tell as it is heavy stamped brass with a lead fill. A Rev War military button was found on the site. This was just a day ago.

I kept circling the small area and got a solid 92 signal on the Deus, which is normally either silver, quarter sized or a square of aluminum. I called my bud over with his new Equinox and his machine saw it and he interpreted it as a minie ball at an 18 on the Equinox. It was a nice sized, solid piece. I took a huge bite of dirt out and flipped the muddy plug over. Out pops a 1772 2 Escudo coin! Of course, I didn't have my glasses on and couldn't see what it was lying on the ground so yelled at my friend, what is it? What is it? After all I can't see what the thing was! The reve View attachment IMG_1416.jpg howed. He picked it up and at that point I think I because speechless as he said I didn't react much. Well, surprise will do that to you.

We also found a lot of other cool early pieces. The pottery is 18th century but we didn't find much of it. Enjoy. View attachment IMG_1410.jpg
 

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Tommybuckets, I had found those three flat buttons fairly close to where I had placed my little chair. I used it as a marker and we just kept circling it. That coal was driving me nuts, but it read so low, I knew those signals were the coal. Darryl found two Civil War belt plates within 50' of where we were, late in 2016 and that Eagle D button this spring that I kept drooling over was found almost exactly where I found the escudo. As you know we had been playing the "what's your machine reading on this" game for a bit, and I thought this was a silver quarter or some such thing, and I remember your Equinox read it at an 18. Happiness is a farmer that still plows. There are still parts of the 55 acres no one has been on yet.

TNmountains, I did find a blown Rev War cannon piece maybe 30 years ago. Doesn't look like much.
 

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Many gold coins on tnet but yours is hard to beat!
 

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What a beautiful find!

Nicely done, and all the best,

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Totally Outstanding!!!! Congrats!!!! Awesome!!!!! I'm drooling now........
 

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You mean I was on property that had that coin? Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
 

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oh man that's awesome. huge congrats!
 

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Yes, Jeff the same property and where you were looking at the woods' edge, well it was in the field about 85 feet out with some other goodies.

That's my second colonial gold coin, the first was from the Delaware beach in early 2013, after Hurricane Sandy. It was and is a 1774 British Gold Guinea either from the "Three Brothers" shipwreck or the "Faithful Steward" shipwreck.

Two colonials in just about 50 years of looking around and scratching in the dirt. What we are NOT finding is early state coppers. Plenty of George I, II and III coppers and pre Civil War US coppers, with a few silvers mixed in but those early state coppers are just plain missing from our sites, with the exception of the one Tommybuckets found just a few weeks ago. It would be a real coup to dig a pre 1820 US gold coin, but I don't think I even know of anyone ever finding one. At this point someone will tell us about theirs!
 

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Probably as close to finding one as I will ever get
But glad it’s you getting them if not me
 

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Normally a site like this would be done by now, almost 2 years now from when we started digging there. But with 55 acres, and now three more adjoining permissions, and with this particular farmer PLOWING and deep discing, it may take the rest of our lives to dig it. We were finding just a few minie balls this time out, compared to those first days when we might get 20, but most were less than 3" underground. The farmer apparently turned them up. One ofuy found a whole horseshoe. We either aren't that good, or we're missing a lot of stuff. A horseshoe is hard to miss.
 

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Congrats Smokey! I've been told that old gold will ring up high in the ground. Yours did.
 

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Great finds as usual. Thanks for letting me tag along once in a while. It is always something good when you are involved.
 

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v, no it's not always something good. Last few digs were kinda pitiful until we went back to the "playground" as you call it. Or is that amusement park? Tommy found another horseshoe. I mean come on, we're apparently missing a lot up there.
 

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I'm always game to get back there...hint hint. Lol.
 

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Congrats on a great find!
 

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Maybe you mentioned it already and I just didn’t read it, but what detector were you using? Deus HF elliptical?
 

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Deus HP elliptical at 74 khz. HOWEVER, as Calabash stated recently it could have been found with a Garrett carrott on a stick. Wasn't deep (5") and blew my ears off. Blew the Equinox 800 users' ears off too, but read at "18" on his machine, "92" or whatever on mine.
 

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