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- All Treasure Hunting
It's been awhile since I posted although I have been hitting the dirt just as hard as ever....Hope all my friends are doing well, I just had to take a break for a minute...
Went out hunting with my buddy Louis to a nice piece with Revoulutionary and Civil War ties. A field with a bit of woods near a nice inlet. We hunted the field where some nice finds had been found on a few trips to the spot before but to little avail...found an old brass button. After hunting for awhile we were joined by Willoughby Smitty who was ready to put his butterfly coil to the soil! Well, I worked my way towards an old cannon emplacement and some works built either during the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812. As I was working my way over it I got a faint signall and decided to dig as always...and out popped a small flat button with the shank still attached...I than passed my coil over the dirt once more to make sure there was nothing more and I got a very loud signal at a +80 on the MXT. As I sifted through the dirt out popped a nice copper coin. When I got it home and cleaned it up I found that it was an 1830's French Canadian copper "Un Sou" meaning "ONE CENT". (The French areas of Canada many times didn't accept the British Canadian monies so the French made their own coinage and paper money..in addition, because of the previous statement and because the French portion of Canada was in the minority, these coins are more rare than their British Canadian counterparts....) The inscription reads "Agriculture & Commerce Bas Canada" and on the other it reads "Token Un Sou Montreal". I Couldn't believe it....a Canadian copper here in Virginia....go figure. But I'll take it and the other buttons, etc. and a 1950 Virginia Dog tag... Louis also found a VERY nice find there as well.
Went out hunting with my buddy Louis to a nice piece with Revoulutionary and Civil War ties. A field with a bit of woods near a nice inlet. We hunted the field where some nice finds had been found on a few trips to the spot before but to little avail...found an old brass button. After hunting for awhile we were joined by Willoughby Smitty who was ready to put his butterfly coil to the soil! Well, I worked my way towards an old cannon emplacement and some works built either during the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812. As I was working my way over it I got a faint signall and decided to dig as always...and out popped a small flat button with the shank still attached...I than passed my coil over the dirt once more to make sure there was nothing more and I got a very loud signal at a +80 on the MXT. As I sifted through the dirt out popped a nice copper coin. When I got it home and cleaned it up I found that it was an 1830's French Canadian copper "Un Sou" meaning "ONE CENT". (The French areas of Canada many times didn't accept the British Canadian monies so the French made their own coinage and paper money..in addition, because of the previous statement and because the French portion of Canada was in the minority, these coins are more rare than their British Canadian counterparts....) The inscription reads "Agriculture & Commerce Bas Canada" and on the other it reads "Token Un Sou Montreal". I Couldn't believe it....a Canadian copper here in Virginia....go figure. But I'll take it and the other buttons, etc. and a 1950 Virginia Dog tag... Louis also found a VERY nice find there as well.
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