Not bad for 90 minutes

ModernMiner · Oct 18, 2011

I dropped my son off this afternoon for a school field trip at a local Tiger rescue place out in the country. Rather than waste time, I decided to find an old property to detect while I waited. Within 20 minutes I had located a vacant property, asked neighbors who the owner was, found the grandson, and secured permission for not only this trip but future trips. :thumbsup:

Early 1900's house on 8 acres.
I started digging up mason jar lids like crazy at this place, but eventually made some decent finds in the yard. During my 90 minutes of detecting I think I gave a pint of blood to the #@%& mosquito's and had gnats caked in my eyes and ears. :laughing9:

I dug a beautiful gold gilt general service button with "Fine Quality" back mark. I believe these were 1902 and newer. :icon_scratch:

Next came a Merc dime and numerous wheat pennies (I gave some to the grandson).
Then I dug some very thin coin looking thingy with a hole drilled into it. Any ideas what it is?

Not bad for an hour and a half. :thumbsup:

I'll have to spend more time there next time & hopefully the bugs will be gone.

Thanks for looking,
MM

Parisdakarbmw · Oct 20, 2011

The small dime sized coin looks to be a charm from a bracelet. I'm a jeweler part time, and have seen a good bit of those from older estate sales, and repair work. Most of those were in style after the mid 40's, and still being made today. The older ones were mostly silver, and made to look like an ancient coin. Some of the newer ones are like liberty dimes, or spanish coins. Probably made by hammering the metal into a coin shaped depression. Most likely a foux coin charm from the mid 50's

MLseverson · Oct 20, 2011

the holed charm you have would be one of thousands tied to a dress, them all together makes the girl wearing it "jingle". I get fooled alot thinking they are coins when i find them, usually at concerts

mikey

ModernMiner · Oct 20, 2011

Parisdakarbmw said:
The small dime sized coin looks to be a charm from a bracelet. I'm a jeweler part time, and have seen a good bit of those from older estate sales, and repair work. Most of those were in style after the mid 40's, and still being made today. The older ones were mostly silver, and made to look like an ancient coin. Some of the newer ones are like liberty dimes, or spanish coins. Probably made by hammering the metal into a coin shaped depression. Most likely a foux coin charm from the mid 50's

MLseverson said:
the holed charm you have would be one of thousands tied to a dress, them all together makes the girl wearing it "jingle". I get fooled alot thinking they are coins when i find them, usually at concerts

mikey

Thanks to both of you. Gee, I wish I had found it still attached to a "jingly" girl. :laughing9:

-MM-