It was a dandy kinda day

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Hi folks,

Well, the snow has FINALLY melted in the Champlain Valley and the ground has thawed enough that I bit the bullet yesterday by enduring 40 mph wind gusts for my first hunt of the year. It's been too long (last hunt on Dec 1, 2018). Joined up with Gold Panner and in talking with him discovered we share several old permissions in a town south of me about 45 minutes. We hit 3 new sites, then returned to my honey field from last year to wrap the day up. All and all about 6 hours of hunting. The second site proved most productive and coughed up several nice silver-washed dandy buttons and my first copper of the year - a no-date KG II Hibernia half penny (~ 1736 - 1760). Of course, the old honey hole gave me 5 more buttons (that place never seems to completely dry up), one which had a nice little Star of David pattern on it. Lots of "dots on the map" to check out over the coming 6 weeks before the crops get planted. Definitely looking forward to another productive year! Thanks for taking a look.

John

Wide shot.webpbuttons.webpStar of David button.webpKG II Hibernia obverse.webpKG II Hibernia reverse.webp
 

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Nice group of buttons, congrats!
 

Congrats on the nice finds! :occasion14:
 

Like the big copper. I've dug large cents but still waiting for a Colonial.
 

Nice hunt & nice buttons, the Star of David is awesome, nice 1/2 penny, congratulations on all the saves.
G.A.Pmetal and I hunted in those winds Wednesday, they were wild out in the open fields GL & HH
 

Those dandy buttons came out great. Good luck on getting a positive id on the coin
 

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