Yesterday's old coins and relics - plus a heart stopping moment!

[BTV Digger]

Hi folks. Here's my finds from yesterday at a new permission site. 3 coins - a decent 1775 KG 3 with nice green patina, a no date earlier style Matron LC and a fairly decent '65 IH. Got about 8 buttons, a few with nice floral patterns, musket ball, crotal bell, heart shaped heel plate and my first complete bat wing buckle. I've yet to educate myself fully to determine whether these 1770s KG3s are American counterfeits or the real deal. Seems 1775 could be both. Also, what is the approximate date for those bat wings? Late 1700s?

Now for my troubling moment. After I returned home yesterday evening, I realized I was missing my gold wedding band!!! I had it refitted a few months back and it's a little on the loose side now. Short end of the story - I went back and viewed my video shots to determine when I had the ring on and then when I didn't. This narrowed the search area down quite a bit as I was only in one field and most of my holes were in an approximate 50 yd X 50 yd square area within close proximity to my car. So I returned to the field with this in mind today and found the ring in about 30 minutes. WHEW!!!! Crisis avoided and lesson learned. I'm gonna remove the ring before hunting from now on. Thanks for looking and HH!

John

 

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[GB1]

nice finds

 

[sprailroad]

All that AND a ring, and you also found the owner!

 

[toasted]

Nice finds. I think those batwings only turn up on sites that had activity into the early 1800s and not on colonial only sites. The counterfeit KGs are usually thinner compared to royal issues

 

[port ewen ace]

gave yourself a reward for the ring find

 

[Aureus]

Great finds. And good job on finding your gold ring.

 

[Whyme]

[FONT=Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif]Nice finds! [/FONT] Love the crotal bell. Best find was your ring!

 

[washingtonian]

Nice job. I switch to a silicone ring when detecting because otherwise my gold band interferes with my pinpointing. Glad you found it!

 

[Reanm8er]

Congrats, Fabulous finds and presentation!----------Phil

 

[Silvermonkey]

Great finds...great story!

 

[BLK HOLE]

Does finding your own ring and returning it to yourself count for a honorable mention? T-Net moderators a ruling on the field pls

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice old coppers!

 

[A2coins]

Wow those are some sweet coins and relics. If you didn't find your wedding band I would have sent you some Hay to insulate the dog house you would be sleeping in lol.

 

[xcopperstax]

That is an excellent hunt! Really nice buckle too! Not sure on the age but if you search batwing buckle on the web you should be able to narrow it down. I would really like to find one of those heel plates! Nice stuff!

 

[Switchblade]

Great finds!