Carlitosway2
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- Joined
- Apr 11, 2016
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- Location
- Long Island NY
- Detector(s) used
- (Favorite) CTX 3030
(Back up) whites V3i
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
From junk pile to display after more than 3 years.
The first one found which looks to be a brooch of some sort, a little crusty on back and was in a spot that I commonly dig costume jewelry and a few modern silver rings so not thinking much of it at the time cause of the crust thinking it’s plated I put in my trash pocket and sorted it when I got home and placed in my junk jewelry bin, leaving it caked with mud and never looked at it again for more than 2 years.
Years later I decided to dig a few quick hole’s on my way home from work digging low vdi #’s looking for buttons when I get a shallow hit in a rocky area “like the end trails of farm plowing” when I pull out what I again thought was costume jewelry till I rubbed the back and it had that distinct clean gold look I see on YouTube videos of finds.
At a closer look at it I see it was engraved with a name & date Oct 1 1825. I was so excited to finally have found my first gold and being personalized was even more impressive to me so I placed it in my top finds display box.
A little more than a year later I go threw my bags of common buttons too lightly clean looking for markings when I see under a pile of junk metal those unique little black stones and finally it clicked. I quickly gave it a gentle rince to get mud off and see it had an almost identical pattern to engraved charm.
This to me is one of my most unique finds in 8 years of detecting and it’s seems a bit far fetched but it is honestly %100 true. These two pieces were found 2+ years apart in same field about 300yards away from each other. They both tested positive as being gold and are now being displayed together as I would like to believe it was a set at one time and now many years later together again.
The first one found which looks to be a brooch of some sort, a little crusty on back and was in a spot that I commonly dig costume jewelry and a few modern silver rings so not thinking much of it at the time cause of the crust thinking it’s plated I put in my trash pocket and sorted it when I got home and placed in my junk jewelry bin, leaving it caked with mud and never looked at it again for more than 2 years.
Years later I decided to dig a few quick hole’s on my way home from work digging low vdi #’s looking for buttons when I get a shallow hit in a rocky area “like the end trails of farm plowing” when I pull out what I again thought was costume jewelry till I rubbed the back and it had that distinct clean gold look I see on YouTube videos of finds.
At a closer look at it I see it was engraved with a name & date Oct 1 1825. I was so excited to finally have found my first gold and being personalized was even more impressive to me so I placed it in my top finds display box.
A little more than a year later I go threw my bags of common buttons too lightly clean looking for markings when I see under a pile of junk metal those unique little black stones and finally it clicked. I quickly gave it a gentle rince to get mud off and see it had an almost identical pattern to engraved charm.
This to me is one of my most unique finds in 8 years of detecting and it’s seems a bit far fetched but it is honestly %100 true. These two pieces were found 2+ years apart in same field about 300yards away from each other. They both tested positive as being gold and are now being displayed together as I would like to believe it was a set at one time and now many years later together again.
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