coinman123
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I found this two weekends ago. My computer has been broken for the past two weeks though, so I never had a chance to post this on here. I got permission to metal detect a large overgrown farm field, but was told by the owner that a woman had metal detected there regularly for 2 years, around 5 years ago. Apparently she found a colonial copper and a bunch of buttons. I wasn't finding anything, except for pull tabs, and old 1970's beer cans. The owner came out and we talked for half an hour. He told me a story about the land, apparently there was a house next to the road on the field, that was torn down in the last 1990's. In that area I couldn't metal detect because of all of the house parts. There was also apparently a newer barn, built in the 1950's, on the corner of the field. He told me that the woman who lived in the house let a homeless drunk man live in the barn back in the 1970's, which is why there are so many pull tabs. He died a few years later, drunk, in a wagon close to where I later found the shoe buckle. Anyways, in the overgrown grass I got a deep sounding high number. I dug a deep hole and first thought that the metal in the dirt on the side of the hole was a twisted wire. I grabbed it and was thrilled to see that it was my first ever complete colonial shoe buckle. Even though it is in pretty rough shape, I am very happy that it is complete. I have plenty of frame fragments, complete frames, tongues and chapes, but not one complete one.
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