time4me
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3rd hunt of '09 and silver streak continues - a first and oldest
I took the day Friday to go detecting back at the spot where I spent my first two hunts of the season that netted me 3 silvers on each of those hunts. This is the place where I saw the big coyote that I posted some pictures of. Well, I got out there about 10am Friday morning, and while driving through the property towards a new spot I have not been to yet, I thought I spied a big cat sitting up on a hill. I know there are mountain lions in this area, so I got kind of spooked, but drove a bit closer and was able to snap a few far away pictures. I wished I had a telephoto zoom on my little digital camera, as I was not close enough to see it clearly. He's dead center in the photo below...
Once I was able to zoom in on the photo, I could tell that it was a bobcat and not a mountain lion...
So on to my destination I drove. I parked the car, hopped out and geared up to spend an hour or so trying out this new spot. The first detection I got turned out to be a coin spill of around 4 or 5 wheaties, a war nickel and a cool little token with an SF cut out of it. It is a San Francisco Municipal Railway One Fare token...
Not to long after this I found what I small gold ring and was really excited because I had not yet found any gold at this property in all the months I've been coming here. Cleaning the inside of the band I could make out some letters which I thought were a person's name, but it turned out to be "HONG KONG" and the ring turned out to be junk.
Moving on I got a big detection, and digging down a few inches I found the top of a metal drum of some sort which definitely sounded hollow...
Visions of a can full of old coins started racing around my head, so I dug it out and it turned out to be a coffee pot that was buried upside down...
Not having much luck since the first coin spill find, I started thinking about eating my lunch and driving back over to an area I had lots of success at in the past. Nearing my car I got a nice high tone, and dug down a couple inches to see the flash of small silver staring up at me...
Picking it up, I saw something I've seen here on treasurenet countless times, but never in all my years of detecting had the thrill of seeing myself - "ONE DIME". My FIRST Barber dime and my OLDEST dime found yet...
It was my first ever Barber dime...
Well after this, I decided to stay a while longer at this location. The only other thing of note that I found in this area was a swiss army knife in pretty good condition, and a giant spoon. So I packed the detector back in the car, ate my lunch, and drove over to a more familiar area.
It wasn't long until I had another flash of silver in my hole...
Which turned out to be a nice Mercury Head dime...
Then I started crossing an overgrown field to get to another spot, and I got a solid signal and dug up a huge silver ring...
I thought it was odd, though, as the ring did not give me a real high-tone that I would have expected from silver. A bit of field cleaning revealed that the ring is plated - don't know what the base metal is. So now I was a little bummed that I got skunked on both of my ring finds of the day, but I still had that Barber dime to keep the smile on my face.
Here is the total take for the day, less a couple of pounds of trash...
Here is the end of the spoon where you can see the "U.S."...
And here is the maker mark on the back of the spoon - if anyone has any info on this spoon, please chime in as I'm curious as to how old it is...
Here is the JUNK gold ring I found...
And this is a neat pin that I found, but it is not real gold...
Here are the rest of the finds that I talked about above, all cleaned up...
Got a total of seven wheaties for the day - all of them from the 1940's...
And here is the rest of the clad coinage...
And finally the swiss army knife cleaned up as best I could...
Thanks for looking, and Happy Hunting!
Jim
I took the day Friday to go detecting back at the spot where I spent my first two hunts of the season that netted me 3 silvers on each of those hunts. This is the place where I saw the big coyote that I posted some pictures of. Well, I got out there about 10am Friday morning, and while driving through the property towards a new spot I have not been to yet, I thought I spied a big cat sitting up on a hill. I know there are mountain lions in this area, so I got kind of spooked, but drove a bit closer and was able to snap a few far away pictures. I wished I had a telephoto zoom on my little digital camera, as I was not close enough to see it clearly. He's dead center in the photo below...
Once I was able to zoom in on the photo, I could tell that it was a bobcat and not a mountain lion...
So on to my destination I drove. I parked the car, hopped out and geared up to spend an hour or so trying out this new spot. The first detection I got turned out to be a coin spill of around 4 or 5 wheaties, a war nickel and a cool little token with an SF cut out of it. It is a San Francisco Municipal Railway One Fare token...
Not to long after this I found what I small gold ring and was really excited because I had not yet found any gold at this property in all the months I've been coming here. Cleaning the inside of the band I could make out some letters which I thought were a person's name, but it turned out to be "HONG KONG" and the ring turned out to be junk.
Moving on I got a big detection, and digging down a few inches I found the top of a metal drum of some sort which definitely sounded hollow...
Visions of a can full of old coins started racing around my head, so I dug it out and it turned out to be a coffee pot that was buried upside down...
Not having much luck since the first coin spill find, I started thinking about eating my lunch and driving back over to an area I had lots of success at in the past. Nearing my car I got a nice high tone, and dug down a couple inches to see the flash of small silver staring up at me...
Picking it up, I saw something I've seen here on treasurenet countless times, but never in all my years of detecting had the thrill of seeing myself - "ONE DIME". My FIRST Barber dime and my OLDEST dime found yet...
It was my first ever Barber dime...
Well after this, I decided to stay a while longer at this location. The only other thing of note that I found in this area was a swiss army knife in pretty good condition, and a giant spoon. So I packed the detector back in the car, ate my lunch, and drove over to a more familiar area.
It wasn't long until I had another flash of silver in my hole...
Which turned out to be a nice Mercury Head dime...
Then I started crossing an overgrown field to get to another spot, and I got a solid signal and dug up a huge silver ring...
I thought it was odd, though, as the ring did not give me a real high-tone that I would have expected from silver. A bit of field cleaning revealed that the ring is plated - don't know what the base metal is. So now I was a little bummed that I got skunked on both of my ring finds of the day, but I still had that Barber dime to keep the smile on my face.
Here is the total take for the day, less a couple of pounds of trash...
Here is the end of the spoon where you can see the "U.S."...
And here is the maker mark on the back of the spoon - if anyone has any info on this spoon, please chime in as I'm curious as to how old it is...
Here is the JUNK gold ring I found...
And this is a neat pin that I found, but it is not real gold...
Here are the rest of the finds that I talked about above, all cleaned up...
Got a total of seven wheaties for the day - all of them from the 1940's...
And here is the rest of the clad coinage...
And finally the swiss army knife cleaned up as best I could...
Thanks for looking, and Happy Hunting!
Jim
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