BuckleBoy
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2006
- Messages
- 18,132
- Reaction score
- 9,701
- Golden Thread
- 4
- Location
- Moonlight and Magnolias
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 4
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F75, Whites DualField PI, Fisher 1266-X and Tesoro Silver uMax
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hello All,
I'm gonna make this short and sweet. This morning everything went wrong. Car trouble, traffic, rain downpours (when the forecast said 5 percent chance!!
). Finding out that some good fields had been planted, and others left for the weeds to grow. So...Shanegalang and I got out in our back-up, back-up site. And we weren't too happy about it. Well, we continued with a grid of the place, knowing that we'd probably never get the grid completed since the area is so vast. Several hours in, I got a high 90s reading on the F-75 and couldn't believe what I was seeing. It's so seldom that one sees a half dollar in the hole! Well, I've had the good fortune of digging a Franklin and a Walker last year, and a big 2 Reales this year...but as I investigated this one, I realized it was my third Seated Half in 20 years--and it was an eye-popper! AND a New Orleans Minted Coin! The video is a must-see if you like mud and big silver. 
Ended up with a pile of odds and ends I'm too exhausted to clean, a Civil War era bullet, a flat button, some keyhole covers from smokehouse locks that are antebellum finds, and a Shield Nickel dated either 1873 or 1875.
Here are some photos. I need help with the ID of the bullet. It has a flat base, and its measurements are .54 inches at the base, and the height is .92 inches.
Without the few scuffs from the plow, and the discoloration, this would easily be a $1000+ coin.
If it had been an 1842 small date, then I could dig instead of work! 
OK, after 10 hours in the mud today, I'm gonna take it easy.
Cheers,
Buck
I'm gonna make this short and sweet. This morning everything went wrong. Car trouble, traffic, rain downpours (when the forecast said 5 percent chance!!
). Finding out that some good fields had been planted, and others left for the weeds to grow. So...Shanegalang and I got out in our back-up, back-up site. And we weren't too happy about it. Well, we continued with a grid of the place, knowing that we'd probably never get the grid completed since the area is so vast. Several hours in, I got a high 90s reading on the F-75 and couldn't believe what I was seeing. It's so seldom that one sees a half dollar in the hole! Well, I've had the good fortune of digging a Franklin and a Walker last year, and a big 2 Reales this year...but as I investigated this one, I realized it was my third Seated Half in 20 years--and it was an eye-popper! AND a New Orleans Minted Coin! The video is a must-see if you like mud and big silver. Ended up with a pile of odds and ends I'm too exhausted to clean, a Civil War era bullet, a flat button, some keyhole covers from smokehouse locks that are antebellum finds, and a Shield Nickel dated either 1873 or 1875.
Here are some photos. I need help with the ID of the bullet. It has a flat base, and its measurements are .54 inches at the base, and the height is .92 inches.
Without the few scuffs from the plow, and the discoloration, this would easily be a $1000+ coin.
If it had been an 1842 small date, then I could dig instead of work! OK, after 10 hours in the mud today, I'm gonna take it easy.
Cheers,
Buck
Last edited:
Upvote
30
