GerryL
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I haven't posted on a long time, but Robin and I went back to a site from last summer; it was an untouched site and gave up approx 20 buttons including some nice tombacs, a trime, other 1800s coins and many tools such as scythes, axe heads, hoes, along with other farming things...Horse and ox shoes, etc. We enjoyed it so much we gridded it off with surveyor's tape and tried to cover everything using a Deus with HF coil. Today we went back with an X35 coil and worked it over again. Dug some big iron (axe, pails, etc) to clear some spots. Found the decorative whatsit with a stepped back; any idea what it was from? (To right of token in photo). Then as we were preparing to leave we went by the well for a last minute scan. I hit this area multiple times last year. Well I was over a spot I was sure was a bunch of nails, yet there was a faint interesting signal in one direction. Robin cleared 3 nails, and we thought we were done. I scanned again and had just a good signal. Then she popped out the token. We were shocked because we hit this exact spot so hard last year. She said she saw a ship on the coin. I was baffled, but when we got home her quick research showed it to be an 1837 Van Buren metallic currency, or hard times token. It's kind of special to us with the sailboat, as we spent the winter fixing an older small sailboat and have been sailing over the last 6 weeks. It's almost like the site held it off until now for us. Lol
Oops, sorry for sideways photos.
Oops, sorry for sideways photos.
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