tnt-hunter
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- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
I went to an old school ballfield I have hunted in the past. The ballfield itself has been well covered and has given up big silvers, seated dimes and civil war artifacts. There is a spot at the end of the field that has been overgrown with weeds for all the years I have hunted there. This year they started mowing that area and so I gave it a shot. I spent 4 hours swingin the CZ21 giving the area a quick check and found 84 coins with a face value of $7.09, a civil war bullet, a mystery item, a knob, a plated spoon, can slaw, lots of aluminum bottle caps and 13 tabs.
The bullet is pretty beat up, but it looks like a .58 caliber and is a solid based three ringer. The mystery item is thick like a nickel, but larger in diameter. No coin or button type markings, but it does have a faint groove pattern on both sides. No idea what it was for. When it popped out I thought it was a nickel.
The spoon is a ROGERS DELUXE PLATED in the GRACIOUS pattern from about 1939. The plating is pealing off is some part and appears heavier than most silver plate.
There is a lot more ground to cover thoroughly. There are some hot spots and some pretty dead areas as well. I will have to go back and grid the area to see if any goodies show up. The potential is there.
After I left the fields I went back to town to meet with the robotics team and the archeologist to excavate the finds we marked. The ground was partly frozen and the archeologist explained the process and the kids (age 10) took awhile to work through the archeological process so we only recovered one item. A cosmetic/toothpaste type tube. The owner was there and gave me permission to return and detect the whole yard (not very big, but size doesn’t dictate the number and kinds of finds). Maybe I’ll get lucky.
DAY 2
I went to the far fields to grid more and hope for a goodie or 2. As usual there was a lot of dead space with no targets, not even iron. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 26 coins with a face value of $1.12, 2 buttons, 2 round balls, some jewelry, a modern bullet, an ace bandage clip, part of a toy motorcycle, part of a toy truck, a horseshoe, aluminum wire, aluminum bottle caps, can slaw, foil and 10 tabs.
One of the buttons is a very crusty flat button with a broken shank. No markings visible on the back and the front looks plain. The round balls are different calibers. One has a nice lead oxide coat and the other has only a few spots of white. I believe they are both oldies.
The donkey pin looks like a vintage democrat hat pin. The other piece of jewelry is a cheapie breast cancer ribbon charm or pendant that has HOPE on it.
DAY 3 and DAY 4
I had plans to go out, but nature said a very loud NO! It was in the single digits temperature wise with 30 MPH gusts. Add to that 6 or 7 inches of snow and I was out of luck. It did warm up to detectable weather, but I was busy with family holiday preparations and couldn’t go.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I did find one slick smooth zinc Lincoln in the coinstar early in the week. Today while shopping I found a lonely little dime in the coinstar at Wally World (what I call that big retailer that starts with a W and is about the only store left in the area for most of our everyday items). It turned out to be a nice Rosy. I also found 2 pennies and a nickel at the mall and a cheapie earring and a penny on one of our walks on Main Street before the snow covered the pavement.
The Rosy is a little dirty but looks like is has very little wear so a nice find (A 1954 S) With the price of silver so high finding this is like finding a $5 bill. Sweat! The slick Lincoln is perfectly smooth, almost like it was polished. A large part of the copper is gone. This one wouldn’t last a year in the acid soil, it would be totally dissolved.
The sunrises have been lovely lately and the snow does make the backyard look like Christmas is coming.
This will be my last post for 2025. I will be in New Mexico visits my daughter for Christmas. It doesn’t end my detecting year because that ends April 30th so I still have 4 months to detect in this my 24th year of detecting. Stay safe, good luck and may your detector lead you to good things. Merry Christmas and have a happy holiday whatever you celebrate at this time of year.
I went to an old school ballfield I have hunted in the past. The ballfield itself has been well covered and has given up big silvers, seated dimes and civil war artifacts. There is a spot at the end of the field that has been overgrown with weeds for all the years I have hunted there. This year they started mowing that area and so I gave it a shot. I spent 4 hours swingin the CZ21 giving the area a quick check and found 84 coins with a face value of $7.09, a civil war bullet, a mystery item, a knob, a plated spoon, can slaw, lots of aluminum bottle caps and 13 tabs.
The bullet is pretty beat up, but it looks like a .58 caliber and is a solid based three ringer. The mystery item is thick like a nickel, but larger in diameter. No coin or button type markings, but it does have a faint groove pattern on both sides. No idea what it was for. When it popped out I thought it was a nickel.
The spoon is a ROGERS DELUXE PLATED in the GRACIOUS pattern from about 1939. The plating is pealing off is some part and appears heavier than most silver plate.
There is a lot more ground to cover thoroughly. There are some hot spots and some pretty dead areas as well. I will have to go back and grid the area to see if any goodies show up. The potential is there.
After I left the fields I went back to town to meet with the robotics team and the archeologist to excavate the finds we marked. The ground was partly frozen and the archeologist explained the process and the kids (age 10) took awhile to work through the archeological process so we only recovered one item. A cosmetic/toothpaste type tube. The owner was there and gave me permission to return and detect the whole yard (not very big, but size doesn’t dictate the number and kinds of finds). Maybe I’ll get lucky.
DAY 2
I went to the far fields to grid more and hope for a goodie or 2. As usual there was a lot of dead space with no targets, not even iron. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 26 coins with a face value of $1.12, 2 buttons, 2 round balls, some jewelry, a modern bullet, an ace bandage clip, part of a toy motorcycle, part of a toy truck, a horseshoe, aluminum wire, aluminum bottle caps, can slaw, foil and 10 tabs.
One of the buttons is a very crusty flat button with a broken shank. No markings visible on the back and the front looks plain. The round balls are different calibers. One has a nice lead oxide coat and the other has only a few spots of white. I believe they are both oldies.
The donkey pin looks like a vintage democrat hat pin. The other piece of jewelry is a cheapie breast cancer ribbon charm or pendant that has HOPE on it.
DAY 3 and DAY 4
I had plans to go out, but nature said a very loud NO! It was in the single digits temperature wise with 30 MPH gusts. Add to that 6 or 7 inches of snow and I was out of luck. It did warm up to detectable weather, but I was busy with family holiday preparations and couldn’t go.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I did find one slick smooth zinc Lincoln in the coinstar early in the week. Today while shopping I found a lonely little dime in the coinstar at Wally World (what I call that big retailer that starts with a W and is about the only store left in the area for most of our everyday items). It turned out to be a nice Rosy. I also found 2 pennies and a nickel at the mall and a cheapie earring and a penny on one of our walks on Main Street before the snow covered the pavement.
The Rosy is a little dirty but looks like is has very little wear so a nice find (A 1954 S) With the price of silver so high finding this is like finding a $5 bill. Sweat! The slick Lincoln is perfectly smooth, almost like it was polished. A large part of the copper is gone. This one wouldn’t last a year in the acid soil, it would be totally dissolved.
The sunrises have been lovely lately and the snow does make the backyard look like Christmas is coming.
This will be my last post for 2025. I will be in New Mexico visits my daughter for Christmas. It doesn’t end my detecting year because that ends April 30th so I still have 4 months to detect in this my 24th year of detecting. Stay safe, good luck and may your detector lead you to good things. Merry Christmas and have a happy holiday whatever you celebrate at this time of year.
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