After all these years, finally found two silvers in a row, plus other odds and ends

[rastinirv]

It's been a long spell since I posted. I was gratified to be able to get out for a couple of hours today to hit a schoolyard I've been to many times. Nothing terribly special, but I quickly found a 1940 Merc with a wheatie in the same hole and then a 1952 Roosevelt dime in the very next hole I dug. I can't remember that ever happening before. Please let this be the first of many such occurrences.

Also hound a holed war nickel, a cheap little heart pendant, and an ES DEUS SPES NOSTRA button that certainly came off a 20th-cent. school blazer and not a Revolutionary War Hessian. Also found all in the same hole a bent-up bit of copper along with a short copper rod with three fairly sharp, fixed star shapes on it. Any idea what it might be from?

Thanks for looking and hope everyone is staying healthy and sane!

 

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[tnt-hunter]

Congratulations on the silver finds. Your rod is actually brass and it is part of the adjustment for the wick on an old oil lamp. It is missing the round disk on the end that usually has the patent dates. Beside it in the first pictures is the cap with a slot the wick fed through.

Stay safe and keep swingin.

 

[rastinirv]

Thank you, TNT-hunter!

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Truth]

I have always been a one hit wonder with silver 95% of my detecting career, so I can honestly feel your joy, but not many can say they’ve ever found a holed War Nickel. I have probably found over 50 war nickels in my 4 years of detecting. Nickels for some reason have always been my thing ( War, Buffs, V’s) so the holed War Nickel intrigues me and I think it’s very unique.

 

[rastinirv]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty unusual, too. And it's holed in an odd spot.

 

[Truth]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty unusual, too. And it's holed in an odd spot.

True and it leaves me wondering questions like why was it holed to begin with? i’ve never seen any 1940’s coins holed or for that matter I’ve never seen any holed nickels.

And getting back to me rarely EVER finding more than 1 silver in a hunt when I did It was a reales spill in a 1915 park 1 holed 1787 and a 1806 half real lol weird!! That’s what I love about this hobby it allows you to have to wonder and not just Google the answer.

 

[EdHartzel]

That holed war nickle is a head scratcher! My father (who is 86) told me the old timers would hole their coins to not loose them. I’d imagine that 5c might have bought some young man- quite a bit of candy in 1944; and he followed his grandfather’s advice!!

 

[Coinstar magnet]

Nice thread and appreciate the way you photographed your finds, sort of scattered about. Holed coins are popping up today...on another thread someone found a rare dime from 1809 with a hole in it. Only 52,000 or so had been minted...

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very nice !

 

[JeffInMass]

Great finds, Congrats! Never seen a holed war nickel until this post- very cool!

 

[rastinirv]

Nice thread and appreciate the way you photographed your finds, sort of scattered about. Holed coins are popping up today...on another thread someone found a rare dime from 1809 with a hole in it. Only 52,000 or so had been minted...

Yeah, I saw that one. It does make more sense to me that folks would hole them back in the 19th century and earlier in order to string them together; kind of how we keep folding money in billfolds today, but before there was little if any paper money.

 

[Coinstar magnet]

Nice button Definitely 20th century but for a brief moment I wondered if mine was older

 

[scruggs]

Nice finds...makes you feel good to find silver!

 

[A2coins]

Once you break the ice they will come much quicker Glad to see congrats

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the nice finds!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the silvers.

 

[washingtonian]

You did quite well. I wouldn't mind a little of that luck to rub off on me!