Gunned Down 14k Gold, 1st Century of 2010!

[M-Taliesin]

Howdy Folks!
Left the homestead before 10am, went hunting. I finished up around 6:00pm, and
headed home with a pile of clad and some nice jewelry items.

I found a couple of cheapie rings, a circular item that I thought was gold, but it reacted
strangely when I tried to do an acid test on it. Found an earring that looked gold, but
failed the acid test. Best find of the day is a gold bracelet that is stamped poorly, and I
could not make out the inscription to save my life. Acid test on the bracelet shows it to
be 14k. Also found a watch that had a cover on it at some point, but no longer attached.

I used the Sv3 all day, and the 14k came in at VDI 7/8, twitching back and forth from
7 to 8.

Somewhere along the line, my cellphone dropped off my belt and got lost. I retraced
my steps and tried to find it, but it wasn't anywhere I'd been. Lost a couple of hours of
daylight and hunting time trying to find it. Believe somebody found it and turned it off,
because when I tried to call it, it went straight to voice mail. May go out tomorrow for
another look, and use a detector to see if I can locate it on one of them tot lots, but
believe somebody picked it up already. Called to have it deactivated for the time being.

My take today was:
19 Quarters = $4.75
11 Nickels = $0.55
27 Dimes = $2.70
80 Pennies = $0.80
Total = $8.80
Coin Coint = 137 coins.

Also found a British 5 pence coin, about the size of a dime.
Found also a penny that shows an illustration of the Capitol building under construction.

Thanks for looking,
Blessings,
M-Taliesin

 

[Yard Digger]

Great going M-Taliesin! HH.
Yard Digger

 

[dave-enc]

wtg on gold and other finds
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[marinedad]

nice hunt mel, still frozen under snow here.

 

[MZKITY62]

Looks to me that you are trying to read the bracelet upside down. It looks like it says J. Luis to me.

WTG on the great finds.

 

[extractor]

Totaly narely digs bro and ya hooked a whicked skate wrench

 

[HCW]

Is Karen's breakfast place still in Aurora? When I lived in Boulder during the "80's we used to go there. Great food!

 

[dfx willy]

that new pennies strange. when i look at it i keep thinking double die looking at the pillars. but its just a opticle illusion. willy

 

[Digger1980]

WTG on the great finds!!

As a hunter of lost items, its ironic, but I can't even count how much stuff I lost looking for other peoples lost items! LOL

I hope you get your phone back!! HH!

 

[Pentico]

No wounder I can't find anything in Aurora any more, your cleaning house!
Great job!
ChrisP

 

[allen]

If I take my cell phone with me, its always left in the car !
Looks like you had a good day other than losing the phone !!

 

[Moonshadow]

Looks like a really good hunt to me! Very nice pictures!!

HH,
Moon

 

[hikeinmts]

How did you get some thawed-out ground in Colorado this time of the year? Here in S. Korea we're still like concrete. But,
slipped and almost fell down because of surface mud.......GREAT NEWS. Thawin out here, too.
Great finds. What do you clean your coins in? Do they always come out so nice and shiny? Good 2010 hunting.

 

[KOOTNEY KID]

Now thats agreat hunt I dream of days like that ,cant wait to get out this spring!

 

[M-Taliesin]

Looks to me that you are trying to read the bracelet upside down. It looks like it says J. Luis to me.

WTG on the great finds.

Howdy Pardner!
What can I say aside from.... DUH!!!
Yeah, that's exactly what it says!
All that college education gone to waste!

Thanks for the insight!

Blessings,
M-Taliesin

 

[M-Taliesin]

How did you get some thawed-out ground in Colorado this time of the year? Here in S. Korea we're still like concrete.

Howdy Pardner!
Well, for the first two or three weeks out here, we had snow and cold. Plenty of ice too.
However, we had a week or so of temperatures around 40s and 50s, so the local tot lots
have thawed somewhat. Grassy areas are still hardpack and stony tough.

Great finds. What do you clean your coins in? Do they always come out so nice and shiny? Good 2010 hunting.

Tot lots produce quite a few coins, and they get hammered by me and my pards hereabouts
quite regular. So the coins I find have rarely spent much time in the ground. Mostly, since the
chips are frozen below the surface, a lot of them are fresh drops. Some are deeper and I use
a rock hammer to bust up the wood chips to get at them.

I'll post another find from January, where I found a gold ring, and it was frozen into a
block of icy wood chips. Getting it out of there wasn't easy.

Blessings,
M-Taliesin

 

[M-Taliesin]

Looks like a really good hunt to me! Very nice pictures!!

Howdy Moonshadow!
Thanks for the compliment, and the camera is new. Got it as a Yule gift, and the
photos it shoots are really shpadoinkle. Good camera. Fuji SLR style S2100 HD!
I've got some incredible shots with that unit, and I'm just getting started.

Best of all, it has super macro for shooting coins in great detail.

Blessings,
M-Taliesin