tnt-hunter
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
- Messages
- 1,925
- Reaction score
- 10,560
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 9
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I went out to the club this morning to open some detecting. I have found gold and silver jewelry, modern silver coins and some civil war bullets and flat buttons in the past. So I was hoping for more of the same. At this point the oldest coin found on the property was a 1921 mercury dime.
I started to grid a section of the grounds using my usual McDonald’s cup markers and land features as a reference. I found some modern coins and the usual iffy signals that yielded tabs, foil, shotgun headstamps (all modern), and other bits of metal. After digging abou my 20th headstamp I got another iffy, but slightly better signal on my CZ 21. I dug the plug and using my pinpointed located the target. I got the dirt with target into my bucket lid and as I broke down the clods of dirt they got smaller and smaller and the detector said it was there, but the lumps were too small for a coin or so I thought. Using the pinpointed I located the item and broke the small lump and found a Spanish half reale. What a surprise. It is the pillar type dated 1753. It was about 3 inches down and once I got the plug out of the hole the signal sounded like a coin signal.
If I had been lazy today and not been digging the iffy signals and headstamps that little piece of history would still be in the ground for someone else to find.
This is only my second milled Spanish silver coin. I have found 2 cobs, 2 and 4 reale, and a cut pisteren, but only 2 milled and they are both half reales. I found the other one about a year and a half ago at another civil war site.
In 5 hours I found 49 clad coins, face value $3.01, one crusty wheat penny, one small mangled round ball and the half reale. Another successful hunt.
Thanks for looking and may your coil find good things.
I started to grid a section of the grounds using my usual McDonald’s cup markers and land features as a reference. I found some modern coins and the usual iffy signals that yielded tabs, foil, shotgun headstamps (all modern), and other bits of metal. After digging abou my 20th headstamp I got another iffy, but slightly better signal on my CZ 21. I dug the plug and using my pinpointed located the target. I got the dirt with target into my bucket lid and as I broke down the clods of dirt they got smaller and smaller and the detector said it was there, but the lumps were too small for a coin or so I thought. Using the pinpointed I located the item and broke the small lump and found a Spanish half reale. What a surprise. It is the pillar type dated 1753. It was about 3 inches down and once I got the plug out of the hole the signal sounded like a coin signal.
If I had been lazy today and not been digging the iffy signals and headstamps that little piece of history would still be in the ground for someone else to find.
This is only my second milled Spanish silver coin. I have found 2 cobs, 2 and 4 reale, and a cut pisteren, but only 2 milled and they are both half reales. I found the other one about a year and a half ago at another civil war site.
In 5 hours I found 49 clad coins, face value $3.01, one crusty wheat penny, one small mangled round ball and the half reale. Another successful hunt.
Thanks for looking and may your coil find good things.
Upvote
28
