A BLINDING MISSISSIPPI STAR!!!!!

[Devonrex]

Yesterday was one of those days you dream about being a relic hunter. I literally found almost 50 targets in a small 15 by 15 square foot area. Every where I swept my detector I got a signal! What I couldn't believe was I had been there many times before.... BUT these relics were DEEP. My Nautilus may have missed them but the XP DEUS didn't !!! Every Gardner, 22 of them, and every musket ball, was 12 inches or deeper. And the Mississippi coat button was just as deep..... entangled in a web of roots, right at the base of a massive elm tree. I am honestly amazed that I didn't hit it with my shovel getting it out. This area is void of any trash, except for the always present shot gun shell and the occasional small caliber modern bullet, .... so once I realized what I had just walked into, I started to hunt very slow and llistened for the slightest increase in the DEUS's tones. I walked into this area late in the hunt so I was only there for about an hour. I know there are more relics there! Once I get a chance to get back I will grid the area off and walk a pattern hitting the site in all directions. Hopefully another button or two is hiding in there or possibly a plate! Buttons with stars on them always get me going! I could hardly sleep last night............. I can't wait to get back!!! This Mississippi Infantry coat button has 100 percent gold gilt! The green areas have gold underneath but I decided to leave it like it is. The back is silver plated and reads Hyde and Goodrich NO. Now this button whistles DIXIE!!!!! HH Devonrex

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Congratulations on the killer CW hunt!

 

[peruna]

That is a "once in a lifetime" for many folks...glad it happened to you on this side of the grass!

 

[K1DDO1979]

Awesome button. That much gilt remaining on that old of button is super hard to find. Congrats! [emoji2]

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

That's a sweet one John, maybe about the best gilted example of a MS that I've seen. WTG man!!

 

[GB1]

great job

 

[Mzjavert]

That's some real fine dirt fishing.

 

[trapperart]

That's a killer hunt congrats on the nice old finds

 

[RVRoamer74]

Super nice button!! Congrats on all the lead also.

 

[Tired Rooster]

Great haul...Looks like you've found yourself a honey hole!!

 

[texjim]

The button is sweeeeeet. The old lead is cool too..

 

[sutphin]

THAT DOES IT IM GOING BACK TO COLLECTING ROCKS , SWEET BUTTON.

 

[Kurios1]

Treasure hunting paradise! That old Mississippi Button is one for your top shelf best finds ever! She is absolutely gorgeous. I would leave it as it is with evidence that it is a recovered item. Any cleaner and someone might suspect you bought it off E-BAY!!! Excellent score on the old shield nickel too if that came from this hunt. Love the stockpile of old lead as well. Fantastic relic hunting mate.

 

[Subterranean]

I...Just...Have...No...Words! (Well, maybe a big CONGRATULATIONS) Sub

 

[Phishfindr]

Epic hunt! Wow! Congrats!

 

[rickb2202]

ULTRA FANTASTIC ! CONGRATS !!!!!!

 

[Relicific]

Can't wait for you to go back there to see what else turns up.
Very cool button.

 

[scruggs]

What can you say...Fantastic hunt you had!!!

 

[Stoneman227]

Lordy ! Excellent digs !

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!!