CoilFisher
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Not to rehash, but this Summer was the first time I was out detecting in approx. 3 years; work, kids, responsibilities--just put it down.
I have been trying to veer away from many of the sites I used to detect, and find some new ones.
So far, some success at this, but with only a bit of time the other day I decided to go back to one of my old ball park sites.
It is an oider area--never found anything more than a wheat there in terms of older items, but I never finished detecting it.
In the past, I only detected it twice, but I could not stop digging quarters out of it.
Seems after all this time...guess what...still digging a ton of quarters out of it.
About 2 hours goes by and I decided to walk down towards a big old oak tree, and I could not pull anything out around there.
(Shux--that always works. Nope not on this site).
Turned around then and the land sloped up and away from it and I got a deep hit--was the lawnmower part about 8" down
(Ha ha).
Walked a bit towards another younger tree and kept swinging and then a nice, solid shallow (2-3" down)
(You know how you look at it and just kind of freeze, like your brain is taking it's own picture in utter surprise) and pop out the holy medallion.
Sterling silver and has the date of 1880 at the very bottom of the obverse.
I am not certain exactly what the date means in significance? If anything? I know somebody knows here--so much easier than researching it out.
Quite happy with this one; a nice solid piece.
I have been trying to veer away from many of the sites I used to detect, and find some new ones.
So far, some success at this, but with only a bit of time the other day I decided to go back to one of my old ball park sites.
It is an oider area--never found anything more than a wheat there in terms of older items, but I never finished detecting it.
In the past, I only detected it twice, but I could not stop digging quarters out of it.
Seems after all this time...guess what...still digging a ton of quarters out of it.
About 2 hours goes by and I decided to walk down towards a big old oak tree, and I could not pull anything out around there.
(Shux--that always works. Nope not on this site).
Turned around then and the land sloped up and away from it and I got a deep hit--was the lawnmower part about 8" down
(Ha ha).Walked a bit towards another younger tree and kept swinging and then a nice, solid shallow (2-3" down)
(You know how you look at it and just kind of freeze, like your brain is taking it's own picture in utter surprise) and pop out the holy medallion.
Sterling silver and has the date of 1880 at the very bottom of the obverse.
I am not certain exactly what the date means in significance? If anything? I know somebody knows here--so much easier than researching it out.
Quite happy with this one; a nice solid piece.
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Looks like you also had quite a clad haul. It's nice to have a site you can fall back on and only dig quarters or better since there are so many targets.
