GioTheGreek
Bronze Member
Greetings,
Got permission for half of a site I want to check out and I went this morning for a couple of hours.
Unfortunately, it wasnt exactly the terrain I was hoping for. Some sort of tall straw grass and, 6 ft plus, was everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Underneath it, was a bunch of old dead grass, at least a foot deep. Torture...
I headed to the only spot I could swing (the coast), after spending a half hour on the path and not finding anything.
I wasn't very close to the "old buildings" area, but I was close to the small wharf that used to exist there... so there was hope.
I was pulling out all sorts of old iron, weird melted lead (slag?) but not any modern junk like pull tabs etc.
- I found a couple of old dominion bullets and this small buckle and odd shaped piece of metal.
I then got that nice copper signal... once in a while I get fooled with a hunk of junk, but this sounded solid.
I dug into the mud, and hauled out this button. Scanned it with my detector, nothing. I believe it's made of glass.
It's chipped in a spot, and when you look at it, it looks like broken glass to me anyway.
I recheck my hole, signal still there. I fiddle around for a minute and out pops this shiny copper. Totaled.
"Not again, Iron Patch is going to have a field day with this one..."
Thankfully I flipped it over, and there was some green left to it. Enough to make out a tiny, tiny bit of detail. Hopefully you guys can help me ID it. I think it's a large US cent. Not sure of the date/era, but coin edge is a thin one. I don't know much about them, just what I learned on google in the last little bit.
Here's what I can make of it...
Something like that anyway...
The mozzies drove me nuts, so I left and went for a high school hunt. I hit an area against the school and was stuck there for the better part of the day. No silvers unfortunately, but plenty of pennies. Only one decent penny, it was a 1945 wheat.
Next time I'm bringing hipwaders and deet.
Got permission for half of a site I want to check out and I went this morning for a couple of hours.
Unfortunately, it wasnt exactly the terrain I was hoping for. Some sort of tall straw grass and, 6 ft plus, was everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Underneath it, was a bunch of old dead grass, at least a foot deep. Torture...
I headed to the only spot I could swing (the coast), after spending a half hour on the path and not finding anything.
I wasn't very close to the "old buildings" area, but I was close to the small wharf that used to exist there... so there was hope.
I was pulling out all sorts of old iron, weird melted lead (slag?) but not any modern junk like pull tabs etc.
- I found a couple of old dominion bullets and this small buckle and odd shaped piece of metal.
I then got that nice copper signal... once in a while I get fooled with a hunk of junk, but this sounded solid.
I dug into the mud, and hauled out this button. Scanned it with my detector, nothing. I believe it's made of glass.
It's chipped in a spot, and when you look at it, it looks like broken glass to me anyway.
I recheck my hole, signal still there. I fiddle around for a minute and out pops this shiny copper. Totaled.
"Not again, Iron Patch is going to have a field day with this one..."
Thankfully I flipped it over, and there was some green left to it. Enough to make out a tiny, tiny bit of detail. Hopefully you guys can help me ID it. I think it's a large US cent. Not sure of the date/era, but coin edge is a thin one. I don't know much about them, just what I learned on google in the last little bit.
Here's what I can make of it...
Something like that anyway...
The mozzies drove me nuts, so I left and went for a high school hunt. I hit an area against the school and was stuck there for the better part of the day. No silvers unfortunately, but plenty of pennies. Only one decent penny, it was a 1945 wheat.
Next time I'm bringing hipwaders and deet.
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My oldest was late 1800s until I walked into the right field and came out with 4 old coppers including one 100 years older. (1792)
