Possum
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- Location
- Southeast Louisiana
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab CTX 3030 and Equinox 800, XP Deus, Shadow X5, Shadow X2, Fisher F44, Whites Coinmaster, and Tesoro Compadre'
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Well today Truth and I made another trip back to “Fort St.John” or the “Old Spanish Fort”. Truth just got his new 15” coil for his Equinox and he was out the gate running and nailing an IHP right off the bat.
Things were a bit slower for me, I was running my 14” Elliptical Coiltek on my CTX and besides some trash and clads the first thing I found worth mentioning was a flat round piece of lead with a hole through the middle. Neither of us have any idea what it was or used for, maybe someone here can ID it for me.
I dug a little more trash, you know the common stuff nails, bottle tops, can slaw and the likes until I detected by a huge live oak that I’ve been around more times than I can remember. I’m a sucker for those huge horizontal live oak limbs that I call “Kids Climbing and swinging limbs”, which are as big as a regular tree themselves. Anyhow, I was starting to sweep under one and got a solid 12 / 43 on the CTX, but it was only audible one way and when it did hit, it showed seven (7) inches in depth, so I decided this one I’ll dig even though it’s only hitting at only one angle.
Well of course it was right in the middle of a bifurcation of two (2) huge roots, but it was slow and I wasn’t giving up on it just yet. I dug between the roots and when I probed It with my pin pointer, I knocked some dirt loose along the left side bifurcated root where my pin pointer was going nuts and just under the root I could see about a ½ inch of the rim of a large silver coin!!! The remaining 7/8[SUP]th[/SUP] of it was still under the root. I began calling Truth on the two-way and when he got there, he couldn’t believe his eye’s. I tried taking pics of it while under the root, but I think my gloves messed me up and I missed the shot.
We gently recovered it, still not knowing exactly what it was and once out of the ground, Truth said “Congrats Possum, You’re the proud owner of a “Franklin Half Dollar”, being a relic hunter, I had no Idea what a “Franklin Half Dollar” was, but I do know!!!
After finding the “Franklin Half” my luck ran out and it was back to clad pennies, dimes and a Quarter… Oh, I did pull out a nice “square nail and a square spike”, which I included in the pics below, just for the heck of it.
The only thing pictured that I didn’t find today was the piece of black coal looking stuff with metal slivers inside that drove me, my CTX and my pin pointer crazy the other day trying to isolate it in that black clay around the parapet of the fort. I’m not sure what it is, maybe it’s what some call “Coke”, please correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s very light, about 1 1/2” x 3/8” x 1/4”.
Hope y’all enjoy the pics, thanks for looking, take care, HH and may God Bless!!! “D”
Things were a bit slower for me, I was running my 14” Elliptical Coiltek on my CTX and besides some trash and clads the first thing I found worth mentioning was a flat round piece of lead with a hole through the middle. Neither of us have any idea what it was or used for, maybe someone here can ID it for me.
I dug a little more trash, you know the common stuff nails, bottle tops, can slaw and the likes until I detected by a huge live oak that I’ve been around more times than I can remember. I’m a sucker for those huge horizontal live oak limbs that I call “Kids Climbing and swinging limbs”, which are as big as a regular tree themselves. Anyhow, I was starting to sweep under one and got a solid 12 / 43 on the CTX, but it was only audible one way and when it did hit, it showed seven (7) inches in depth, so I decided this one I’ll dig even though it’s only hitting at only one angle.
Well of course it was right in the middle of a bifurcation of two (2) huge roots, but it was slow and I wasn’t giving up on it just yet. I dug between the roots and when I probed It with my pin pointer, I knocked some dirt loose along the left side bifurcated root where my pin pointer was going nuts and just under the root I could see about a ½ inch of the rim of a large silver coin!!! The remaining 7/8[SUP]th[/SUP] of it was still under the root. I began calling Truth on the two-way and when he got there, he couldn’t believe his eye’s. I tried taking pics of it while under the root, but I think my gloves messed me up and I missed the shot.
We gently recovered it, still not knowing exactly what it was and once out of the ground, Truth said “Congrats Possum, You’re the proud owner of a “Franklin Half Dollar”, being a relic hunter, I had no Idea what a “Franklin Half Dollar” was, but I do know!!!
After finding the “Franklin Half” my luck ran out and it was back to clad pennies, dimes and a Quarter… Oh, I did pull out a nice “square nail and a square spike”, which I included in the pics below, just for the heck of it.
The only thing pictured that I didn’t find today was the piece of black coal looking stuff with metal slivers inside that drove me, my CTX and my pin pointer crazy the other day trying to isolate it in that black clay around the parapet of the fort. I’m not sure what it is, maybe it’s what some call “Coke”, please correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s very light, about 1 1/2” x 3/8” x 1/4”.
Hope y’all enjoy the pics, thanks for looking, take care, HH and may God Bless!!! “D”
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