xcopperstax
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Let's start with the coin. Last weekend I went out with the Silver Bandit to a site actually associated with the real human Squanto not just the character of legend. I had detected it before and found basically just clad and one wheatie. I know it's an old area but had yet to prove it with finds. The rain came on as soon as we started and poured torrentially. We waited under some trees and hoped that we would not be struck by the bolts of lightning coming down. I actually put my metal shovel 20 feet away hoping to distract the lightning from getting us. I was thinking Ben Franklin and the kite / key story. Anyway the rain stops. The bandit finds an IHP right off the bat. Cool now we know there is def stuff here. We basically found nothing but clad. Then on the way to the car he found a seated dime about 4 inches down. I was shocked and excited that maybe I could find something. I proceeded to dig all bottle caps and pull tabs in the vicinity all deeper than 4 inches. So much for that theory! I was getting skunked when I found what I called a Canadian wheatie…. It is the same era as a US Wheatie but I have to revise that: It's equivalent to a Flying eagle. As far as I know this is the first penny from Canada that is the size of a modern penny and not the large cents. In my eyes that would make it equivalent to the U.S. coin which was the first cent that was smaller than the braided hair large cents. If anyone disagrees I accept the challenge! That's my story thanks for reading!
Next up we have a special happening: The U.S.S Constitution rides again.... today 7/4/19. They towed out the remaining keel / 5% or whatever is left of it and it rides around the harbor and fires off the cannon. From what I understand the ship could not withstand the stress of actually sailing as the sails would transfer too much force into the frame of the ship. The ship was not always treated with such reverence there are photos of it being used as barracks for sailors and it has a large roof structure built over the entire deck. It's barely recognizable! Quite a sight to see and to think about the history of it is pretty amazing! Imagine being inside old ironsides as cannonballs bounced off of it? People who fought in the revolution almost certainly walked it's decks back in it's infancy!
Next up we have a special happening: The U.S.S Constitution rides again.... today 7/4/19. They towed out the remaining keel / 5% or whatever is left of it and it rides around the harbor and fires off the cannon. From what I understand the ship could not withstand the stress of actually sailing as the sails would transfer too much force into the frame of the ship. The ship was not always treated with such reverence there are photos of it being used as barracks for sailors and it has a large roof structure built over the entire deck. It's barely recognizable! Quite a sight to see and to think about the history of it is pretty amazing! Imagine being inside old ironsides as cannonballs bounced off of it? People who fought in the revolution almost certainly walked it's decks back in it's infancy!
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