BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Shanegalang and I got out in the cane fields again for a 12 hour hunt. He was all excited about trying out his new Tesoro Cibola and the detector surely didn't disappoint! First we drove by some important, top secret new sites and they had not been harvested. So we decided to check out a new spot on a hunch that had been chunked and rolled. We did indeed find a house site there, and it was along a route that saw Civil War action. No CW finds though, and it was cold and windy (49 and 15mph winds). Seemed like freezing after getting used to the 100 degree weather this summer for digs. I got a piece of a brass key and a coin that appeared to be flattened. No idea what it was, but wheat or Indian likely.
After a few hours there, we decided to spend our time elsewhere. So we went to our old standby field for the rest of the day. We started the third grid of the area where so many of our nice CW finds had come from. (In Louisiana, you can grid after the plow, then grid again, and even a third time after it has rained several times and do well, since the rain washes the finds out of the dirt, and slowly erodes the tops of the rows.) After a good many rows with just some tiny junque and a couple clay marbles, I heard a beep and looked down to see a button laying face down on top of the soil. I bent over and could see rays around where the shank used to be and said to Shane "you're gonna kill me." The back was the same as the other three CW Pelican buttons from the field, and the button was in a direct plow line from where two of the three others were dug. I ran back to the car while Shane yelled a few expletives, and came back shooting this video:
It appeared that the Pelican was silver gilded, but that was just an optical trick of the fine silt here in Southern Louisiana. It was in fact gold gilded, and came from the same coat as the other three buttons. ANY day a Southern state seal Civil War button button is dug is a great day...but we were not prepared for the fact that the day would get even better!
Well, I rounded the next row and got a solid hit, and out popped the first 1800s silver of the day: An 1897 Barber dime. Plow struck, but will look great in the display case. At that point, we decided we'd film a lot, so I started filming every time I got a decent hit, or a signal I was really excited about. We broke for lunch, ate some delicious seafood gumbo, and hit the fields again.
This time it was Shane that was on fire. He jumped in the first row and dug three flat buttons right off the bat. I got a good hit and started the camera rolling only to hear him yell me over that he had a silver himself! Here's the video. Disclaimer: While it might look like we're a bunch of turkeys, we try to actually know what we're doing. All the thoughts that go through your head when trying to figure out what you've dug, normally they remain silent but on film they all get said instead.
For some reason, Shane disabled embedding when he posted these, so click the YouTube icon to view them on YouTube instead. I'm sure he'll fix it at some point so they'll appear in this post.
So then I went back to the signal that I was so excited about, and rolled the camera again, expecting another great find...and dug a piece of brass junque!
Photos of his SWEET Seated Dime can be seen on his finds post. 
We kept filming, hoping something great would get on video. I dug a nice .44cal Colt Pistol Bullet, and pieces of yet another spur from the field (we must have pieces from 8-9 different spurs from this field right by now).
At one point, Shane looked up and and yelled for me to come over. The camera battery was dead from all the filming, but I came running to see him dig his first large cent! Well, I'm not gonna show you a photo of it. you'll have to check his post out to see what he dug.
Right after that, I got a crappy signal and stuck the shovel in the ground out of curiosity. A little shred of aluminum turned up, and when I bent over to pick it up, I realized it was a SEATED Half Dime that was beat to death! Of the four things that can destroy a coin, this one has had all four done to it. It has been clipped to pay for something, holed, burned in a cane harvest fire, AND a plow hit it and bent it in half!! Here are some photos:
Seriously, this is the UGLIEST Seated I have ever dug. I got neither date nor mintmark on this one, so no idea what it is...or should I say what it used to be! The photos above are before I carefully unbent the coin. Now, I NEVER do this with silver coins, because they are so brittle that they break even when heated, but I figured what the hell. Heated it up and bent it most of the way back.
Anyhow, I'll include some footage of one of the false alarms, simply because this one caused me to run the camera the longest because I was so certain it would be what it wasn't... Again, click the "YouTube" icon to play it in a new window.
At any rate, darkness eventually started to fall, and our aching legs, arms, and ankles told us we'd been digging for 12 hours, and we parted ways to go clean and investigate our finds.
After tossing out 100lbs of scrap iron, plus several handfulls of can slaw and mangled brass roofing, I was left with some decent finds. Pelican button is in the center, along with the nasty half dime, a button back that is likely from a Yankee Eagle Button, the false alarm religious medallion (Catholic "miraculous medallion"), a strange tiny brass chain that is gold gilded, the usual marbles, neck and strap box of a spur, and a lantern wick turner that says "SUN LIGHT" with an 1859 patent date.
The Barber dime. Plow struck but not a bad coin otherwise:
And of course, the Pride and Joy of the hunt, my Third CW Pelican since August:
Best Wishes and Happy Hunting,
Buckleboy
Shanegalang and I got out in the cane fields again for a 12 hour hunt. He was all excited about trying out his new Tesoro Cibola and the detector surely didn't disappoint! First we drove by some important, top secret new sites and they had not been harvested. So we decided to check out a new spot on a hunch that had been chunked and rolled. We did indeed find a house site there, and it was along a route that saw Civil War action. No CW finds though, and it was cold and windy (49 and 15mph winds). Seemed like freezing after getting used to the 100 degree weather this summer for digs. I got a piece of a brass key and a coin that appeared to be flattened. No idea what it was, but wheat or Indian likely.
After a few hours there, we decided to spend our time elsewhere. So we went to our old standby field for the rest of the day. We started the third grid of the area where so many of our nice CW finds had come from. (In Louisiana, you can grid after the plow, then grid again, and even a third time after it has rained several times and do well, since the rain washes the finds out of the dirt, and slowly erodes the tops of the rows.) After a good many rows with just some tiny junque and a couple clay marbles, I heard a beep and looked down to see a button laying face down on top of the soil. I bent over and could see rays around where the shank used to be and said to Shane "you're gonna kill me." The back was the same as the other three CW Pelican buttons from the field, and the button was in a direct plow line from where two of the three others were dug. I ran back to the car while Shane yelled a few expletives, and came back shooting this video:
It appeared that the Pelican was silver gilded, but that was just an optical trick of the fine silt here in Southern Louisiana. It was in fact gold gilded, and came from the same coat as the other three buttons. ANY day a Southern state seal Civil War button button is dug is a great day...but we were not prepared for the fact that the day would get even better!
Well, I rounded the next row and got a solid hit, and out popped the first 1800s silver of the day: An 1897 Barber dime. Plow struck, but will look great in the display case. At that point, we decided we'd film a lot, so I started filming every time I got a decent hit, or a signal I was really excited about. We broke for lunch, ate some delicious seafood gumbo, and hit the fields again.
This time it was Shane that was on fire. He jumped in the first row and dug three flat buttons right off the bat. I got a good hit and started the camera rolling only to hear him yell me over that he had a silver himself! Here's the video. Disclaimer: While it might look like we're a bunch of turkeys, we try to actually know what we're doing. All the thoughts that go through your head when trying to figure out what you've dug, normally they remain silent but on film they all get said instead.
For some reason, Shane disabled embedding when he posted these, so click the YouTube icon to view them on YouTube instead. I'm sure he'll fix it at some point so they'll appear in this post.
So then I went back to the signal that I was so excited about, and rolled the camera again, expecting another great find...and dug a piece of brass junque!
Photos of his SWEET Seated Dime can be seen on his finds post. We kept filming, hoping something great would get on video. I dug a nice .44cal Colt Pistol Bullet, and pieces of yet another spur from the field (we must have pieces from 8-9 different spurs from this field right by now).
At one point, Shane looked up and and yelled for me to come over. The camera battery was dead from all the filming, but I came running to see him dig his first large cent! Well, I'm not gonna show you a photo of it. you'll have to check his post out to see what he dug.
Right after that, I got a crappy signal and stuck the shovel in the ground out of curiosity. A little shred of aluminum turned up, and when I bent over to pick it up, I realized it was a SEATED Half Dime that was beat to death! Of the four things that can destroy a coin, this one has had all four done to it. It has been clipped to pay for something, holed, burned in a cane harvest fire, AND a plow hit it and bent it in half!! Here are some photos:
Seriously, this is the UGLIEST Seated I have ever dug. I got neither date nor mintmark on this one, so no idea what it is...or should I say what it used to be! The photos above are before I carefully unbent the coin. Now, I NEVER do this with silver coins, because they are so brittle that they break even when heated, but I figured what the hell. Heated it up and bent it most of the way back.
Anyhow, I'll include some footage of one of the false alarms, simply because this one caused me to run the camera the longest because I was so certain it would be what it wasn't... Again, click the "YouTube" icon to play it in a new window.
At any rate, darkness eventually started to fall, and our aching legs, arms, and ankles told us we'd been digging for 12 hours, and we parted ways to go clean and investigate our finds.
After tossing out 100lbs of scrap iron, plus several handfulls of can slaw and mangled brass roofing, I was left with some decent finds. Pelican button is in the center, along with the nasty half dime, a button back that is likely from a Yankee Eagle Button, the false alarm religious medallion (Catholic "miraculous medallion"), a strange tiny brass chain that is gold gilded, the usual marbles, neck and strap box of a spur, and a lantern wick turner that says "SUN LIGHT" with an 1859 patent date.
The Barber dime. Plow struck but not a bad coin otherwise:
And of course, the Pride and Joy of the hunt, my Third CW Pelican since August:
Best Wishes and Happy Hunting,
Buckleboy
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Congrats on YOUR Fine article in W & E too! 
Thanks for the reply Ironman. I appreciate your kind words. Please keep sending me photos of what you all are finding out there. I need the eye candy to get me through the work week~! 
