Cool Coin Purse Found!

[Michigan Badger]

I love this hobby!

This morning I saw that some friends were doing a little cement work by the back door so I had a little chat with the boy doing the job.

I have permission to hunt the yard so I waited till the boy left. He wasn't finished yet but I wanted to hit it before they set in the steel mesh.

Note how small this dug out area is.

I set the Nautilus for non-ferrous metal and dug a scrap piece of copper and then the purse. Note how tiny this purse is and it still opens and closes! I placed an Indian cent inside it for perspective (I dug the coin a few weeks back).

Then I decided to see what the trash was.

You never know what you'll find next! Even tiny spots are worthwhile.

Extra Note: From the original ground level the purse was about 10 inches deep.

Enjoy the hunt.

Badger

 

[tsgman]

Great finds Badger!

 

[Michigan Badger]

nice find
that was pretty deep how far did you have to dig down to get to the orignal level?

The boy who dug out the area went down about 3 inches. I dug the purse at about 7 inches deeper than what he had dug.

But this could be from filling because this is near that house and the house has a basement. The backfill from the basement could account for the extreme depth. In fact in this case I'm sure of that.

 

[civilman1]

Nice find's MB....How old is this house?Good luck when you return and HH!!

 

[Michigan Badger]

Nice find's MB....How old is this house?Good luck when you return and HH!!

According to the owners, the present house was built in the 1940's to replace another at the same location. No one in this town knows how old the original house was. It was just "always here."

There's another old place in town I'm hoping to get permission to hunt. I think that one would even be better than this one.

Got to slump to this kind of hunting until my knee is back in service.

 

[mlw67]

Cool find!

That purse is so narrow--maybe it was reallllllllly long. LOL

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Cool stuff Badger, love the purse. I always enjoy pics of the locations where these things are found.

I recently dug some scrap copper or metal flashing at depth. Went out to the 1/8 Acre of Ultimate Frustration again with my Tejon, got a nice signal... I was pretty psyched that it was a deep one, too, thinking "yeah, baby, faint & steady... it's beneath the junk layer, it has to be a coin"...

I pulled out a red brick fragment, then beneath that was... a piece of sheet metal. Triangular, scrap. A good 8-9 inches down.

I looked around me and just shook my head, "yep... the Eighth Acre strikes again."

I still want to try a Naut, but my current detector already leads me to all the deep gopher holes I can stand to dig....

anyway, keep us posted with all your Naut finds & pics!

 

[Michigan Badger]

Cool stuff Badger, love the purse. I always enjoy pics of the locations where these things are found.

I recently dug some scrap copper or metal flashing at depth. Went out to the 1/8 Acre of Ultimate Frustration again with my Tejon, got a nice signal... I was pretty psyched that it was a deep one, too, thinking "yeah, baby, faint & steady... it's beneath the junk layer, it has to be a coin"...

I pulled out a red brick fragment, then beneath that was... a piece of sheet metal. Triangular, scrap. A good 8-9 inches down.

I looked around me and just shook my head, "yep... the Eighth Acre strikes again."

I still want to try a Naut, but my current detector already leads me to all the deep gopher holes I can stand to dig....

anyway, keep us posted with all your Naut finds & pics!

LOL! I also have dug more than my share of flashing.

That Tejon is a great detector, that's for sure. But now that I've used the Nautilus IIB it will be my land machine from now on.

Hope you find something good at the "Ultimate Frustration" site.

Badger

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice finds MB! Did you use that chair during the hunt, LOL? I dug up a manhole cover last week in the middle of a field, my 5th one, that will never happen again, I now know what a manhole cover sounds like, LOL! Thought I found a huge cache full of gold and silver. Next one will probably be that cache and I won't dig. HH, Mike

 

[Michigan Badger]

Nice finds MB! Did you use that chair during the hunt, LOL? I dug up a manhole cover last week in the middle of a field, my 5th one, that will never happen again, I now know what a manhole cover sounds like, LOL! Thought I found a huge cache full of gold and silver. Next one will probably be that cache and I won't dig. HH, Mike

WOW! A manhole cover...REALLY?

Gosh, I never get that lucky

Hey, you might consider selling it to one of the treasure magazines. They call these "pennies" and they use them for their metal detector depth test reviews.

Badger