ShovelinDave
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- Location
- North Carolina
- Detector(s) used
- Bandido 2 - umax, Garrett Ace 400, Garrett AT Pro, Garrett AT Pinpointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
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Hey Yall. Last weekend I made my way out to the fields to try my luck again but Lady Luck did not show up. This week I decided to stay in town and hit some of the city's property. There is a Department of Redeveloment in our city and they deal with blight houses. They usually tear down the houses and then there sets a empty lot. I have been to a couple of them with no big finds to be had. Clad is about the normal and a couple tootsie cars. I have had my eye on one area because it has three lots side by side of each other but it's also a rough part of town. The houses in the neighborhood are late 19th century.
I make my way over there and always start in the tree row. I pulled a couple memorial pennies here and there then I find a couple quarters close to each other. This tells me no other detector has been here yet and quarters are hard to come by in the city. I finish the tree row and jump into the lots. I come across a penny spill which kind of suprised me. It was a mixture of some zinc and memorial pennies then one of them turns out to be a wheaty. First quarters and now a wheat. I'm starting to get excited. I make a couple passes doing my grid when I get a nice 82-83(a dime) but to one side it jumps up to a 84-85(not a coin). I dig the plug and see a little shiney in the hole. I found my first silver coin in the city limits. A 1940 mercury. I pull another part out of the left side of the hole to reveal some sort of token with initials on it. I walk a couple paths of the grid when I get a nice 81-82. Thinking copper penny and hoping for a wheat. When I pull it out of the hole I see it's a button. A little finger wiping and then I realize I got something. A couple more passes on the grid and the rain starts. Make my way to the car and call it a decent hunt. So a little innerweb research on the button. It says Waterbury Button Co. with a star on the back. It's a Police button and I'm gonna guess that it was made after the civil war but before 1900 because it's in a Waterbury Button Co. catalog published in 1900. I thank you for looking and happy hunting.
https://archive.org/details/militaryallmetal00wate
I make my way over there and always start in the tree row. I pulled a couple memorial pennies here and there then I find a couple quarters close to each other. This tells me no other detector has been here yet and quarters are hard to come by in the city. I finish the tree row and jump into the lots. I come across a penny spill which kind of suprised me. It was a mixture of some zinc and memorial pennies then one of them turns out to be a wheaty. First quarters and now a wheat. I'm starting to get excited. I make a couple passes doing my grid when I get a nice 82-83(a dime) but to one side it jumps up to a 84-85(not a coin). I dig the plug and see a little shiney in the hole. I found my first silver coin in the city limits. A 1940 mercury. I pull another part out of the left side of the hole to reveal some sort of token with initials on it. I walk a couple paths of the grid when I get a nice 81-82. Thinking copper penny and hoping for a wheat. When I pull it out of the hole I see it's a button. A little finger wiping and then I realize I got something. A couple more passes on the grid and the rain starts. Make my way to the car and call it a decent hunt. So a little innerweb research on the button. It says Waterbury Button Co. with a star on the back. It's a Police button and I'm gonna guess that it was made after the civil war but before 1900 because it's in a Waterbury Button Co. catalog published in 1900. I thank you for looking and happy hunting.
https://archive.org/details/militaryallmetal00wate
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