Steve in PA
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jul 5, 2010
- Messages
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- Reaction score
- 14,286
- Golden Thread
- 4
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 4
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F75, XP Deus, Equinox 600, Fisher 1270
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I was able to get out Saturday and Monday over the long holiday weekend. Saturday was pretty futile as I was only able to come up with a late 18[SUP]th[/SUP] century cufflink and an 1883 IHP (IHP #27 FTY) aside from the usual spoons, oil lamp parts, and other assorted junk.
Sunday evening I got a text from the wife of a farmer who has two farms that I hunt, to tell me he had plowed a field that I had discovered a small house site in a couple years ago. Up till now the field had been a hayfield, and clumps of high grass prevented a thorough searching of the site. I had pounded this field pretty hard in the past, but felt some smaller buttons, cufflinks, and if I was really lucky, maybe a Spanish half real might show up. I was a little disappointed with the results, finding only 6 buttons, a musket ball, a French gunflint, and a thin brass disc that I though was a button until I got home and cleaned it.
From what I’ve been able to determine, the plow struck thin brass disc is a German Jeton from Nuremburg circa 1800 depicting Alexander the Great on one side and a rampant lion on the other. Here is my Jeton along with a picture of a non-dug example.
Here is a group shot of my holiday finds, including a Pennsylvania State Seal button I found two weekends ago (bottom row - left)
Lastly, here is a shot of my display from the Jeton site prior to the latest group of finds. Only two coppers and now 35 buttons. Not a very good coin to button ratio!
Thanks for looking and I hope your luck is better than mine
Sunday evening I got a text from the wife of a farmer who has two farms that I hunt, to tell me he had plowed a field that I had discovered a small house site in a couple years ago. Up till now the field had been a hayfield, and clumps of high grass prevented a thorough searching of the site. I had pounded this field pretty hard in the past, but felt some smaller buttons, cufflinks, and if I was really lucky, maybe a Spanish half real might show up. I was a little disappointed with the results, finding only 6 buttons, a musket ball, a French gunflint, and a thin brass disc that I though was a button until I got home and cleaned it.
From what I’ve been able to determine, the plow struck thin brass disc is a German Jeton from Nuremburg circa 1800 depicting Alexander the Great on one side and a rampant lion on the other. Here is my Jeton along with a picture of a non-dug example.
Here is a group shot of my holiday finds, including a Pennsylvania State Seal button I found two weekends ago (bottom row - left)
Lastly, here is a shot of my display from the Jeton site prior to the latest group of finds. Only two coppers and now 35 buttons. Not a very good coin to button ratio!
Thanks for looking and I hope your luck is better than mine
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