rhedden
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- Location
- Eastern NY
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Manticore & Nokta Makro Simplex
Today's expedition was a second attempt at detecting this weekend after yesterday's 6-hour hunt only produced sore legs and three plain flat buttons. I went to a site that I located last summer when the weeds were up to my neck and I was being swarmed by flies in the 88 degree heat. I resolved to return to the site in April before the weeds come back up, as my reckless swinging and fly swatting last summer turned up a 1780s Connecticut copper at about 6 inches.
It was a crazy day of digging with three coins and eight buttons found, plus a few relics. The Matron head cent was 7 to 8 inches deep with a rusty nail next to it, but the Manticore threw a solid 77 to 81 signal that told me to keep digging. A "button signal" (38 to 39 on the Manticore) turned out to be my first Flying Eagle cent since March of 2002! The biggest surprise was yet to come, though. A 71 to 72 signal that was shallow enough for the pinpointer to pick it up without digging turned out to be a cut copper coin. I could only see the letters IND on it, which puzzled me at first. On the way home in the car, I thought to myself, "that could be part of MIND YOUR BUSINESS. " Indeed, it was a cut Fugio cent that was absolutely hammered by an axe until it split! Heartbreaker. Where did the rest of it go?
The eight buttons include one that is surely Tombac, a couple others that might be Tombac, a rotten pewter button (sorry, no script USA), a Dandy button (sorry, no GW) and a large button that says PLATED on the back with fancy design. I probably left a few buttons there, as I got tired of digging low tones and I was pressed for time at the end. I will definitely revisit this site again before the blackflies hatch in late May and turn it into a nightmare.
In other news, my cellar hole silver drought continues. I dug more than a dozen "good" targets today, but there is only a silver-plated brass button in the lot. I once found an 1856 Seated dime a few hundred yards up the creek from this site, but it was two years ago, so I'm "reale"-ly feeling the urge to dig something shiny at this site next time I go.
It was a crazy day of digging with three coins and eight buttons found, plus a few relics. The Matron head cent was 7 to 8 inches deep with a rusty nail next to it, but the Manticore threw a solid 77 to 81 signal that told me to keep digging. A "button signal" (38 to 39 on the Manticore) turned out to be my first Flying Eagle cent since March of 2002! The biggest surprise was yet to come, though. A 71 to 72 signal that was shallow enough for the pinpointer to pick it up without digging turned out to be a cut copper coin. I could only see the letters IND on it, which puzzled me at first. On the way home in the car, I thought to myself, "that could be part of MIND YOUR BUSINESS. " Indeed, it was a cut Fugio cent that was absolutely hammered by an axe until it split! Heartbreaker. Where did the rest of it go?
The eight buttons include one that is surely Tombac, a couple others that might be Tombac, a rotten pewter button (sorry, no script USA), a Dandy button (sorry, no GW) and a large button that says PLATED on the back with fancy design. I probably left a few buttons there, as I got tired of digging low tones and I was pressed for time at the end. I will definitely revisit this site again before the blackflies hatch in late May and turn it into a nightmare.
In other news, my cellar hole silver drought continues. I dug more than a dozen "good" targets today, but there is only a silver-plated brass button in the lot. I once found an 1856 Seated dime a few hundred yards up the creek from this site, but it was two years ago, so I'm "reale"-ly feeling the urge to dig something shiny at this site next time I go.
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