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[Joe-Dirt]

We’ve been hunt a spot that had a lot of standing corn, the farmer cut down 2 fields, maybe 20 acres so we hit that. Didn’t find much at all, lots of aluminum, 2 wheaties and my buddy eyeballed a IHP surface find and dug a KGII that was pretty beat up. Anyway, I needed a drink of water so I crossed the street to where we parked the trucks in a small field that we hit first a few weeks ago and did really good. All the fields here have at least 6” corn stubble so detecting is “ unpleasant” and even “unpleasanterer” when you have a 15” coil on because you can’t get a uniformed swing. Another drawback is the little bits of melted slag that litter the area, they have a range depending on size from a 12-13 signal to a 25-26 signal and they are small and sound good so it’s a crap shoot on what you dig. So I got a scratchy 16-17 in a area I dug a lot of old flat buttons and it was deep so I just stuck my shovel in and flipped the clod over. It took me a few minutes to locate the signal after that and I thought I had more slag until I saw a little dark disc I thought was a shankless button, wiped it off and BOOOM 1853 trime, made my day for sure.

 

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[Silvermonkey]

Very nice Mr. Dirt. Both the trime and the button are quite nice. Congrats.

 

[Yak1366]

Great finds, especially the trime, congrats!!

 

[Sam Holden]

I love the Trime design!!!

 

[Randy Combs]

Yep, them corn stalks are very tough swinging

 

[JeffInMass]

Very jealous of that one Joe, awesome find- Congrats!

 

[Argentium]

Nice ! A trime is a major score ! I would be so thrilled to dig one of those !

 

[michael NY]

Congradulations that is an amazing find.

 

[Mudflap]

That trime is a great find. Worth the corn hassle!!

 

[Wildcat1750]

Nice Trime, and yes that are a bit sneaky to find in the hole!

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Very Nice!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Here in Cent. IL the corn gets picked and the fields immediately get chiseled. Chiseled corn is no bargain, hard walking, but it beats hunting stalks. The best are the bean fields. They get chiseled real quick too and it's easy hunting. Gary

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A fantastic looking Trime - well done !

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice. I like that 3 Cent Piece.

 

[xr7ator]

Sweet lil silver, Joe!

 

[Johncoho]

Congrats on the Trime. Still on my bucket list.

 

[Underwonder]

A trime.....drooooool......droooooool....! Still on my bucket list!

 

[terrafirma]

Great trime. Interesting patina. Silver usually comes out looking like silver around here. Amazing how a hot fire can color them.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Great trime. Interesting patina. Silver usually comes out looking like silver around here. Amazing how a hot fire can color them.

I think the first 3 years of the trime the composition was 75% silver and 25% copper so they look “funny”, I’ve only dug 2-1853’s and the were both dark grey. I also found what I think is a wiped trime this summer, it tested high content silver but is just a tiny tiny bit smaller. I had a guy on site say it might be an early 1700’s silver 1/4 Reale but we’ll never know I guess.
Pictured is my first trime and half dime in flips to show the size of the wiped trime ( not in a flip)

 

[terrafirma]

Nice finds and thanks for the info. I didn't know about the composition change( I have only found 1 so far). Also I didn't know there was such a thing as a 1/4 reale. Another new addition to the bucket list.
Every time I scratch something off my list it gets replaced by two more things that I didn't know existed......Man, I love this hobby!