Narthoniel
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- Virginia Beach
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- Excal 2 and E Trac
Hello,
I have had an unreal week of detecting. I posted last weekend when I started hunting the site I am currently detecting. Since then, I have increased my finds twofold. I have been at this site every minute possible for 7 days. Whenever I got off work I would head there and stay until sundown. Well, the finds are beginning to slow way down, so I feel it is time to bring you all up to speed.
I started out last Sunday with low expectations. I had been in these woods once, and did not really want to go again. But I had nothing better to hunt so off I went. After 3 hours, I had 2 buttons and one large cent to my credit, and I was thrilled. I stumbled on a bottle dump, called a friend(Josh - Jrsherman), and he headed out to search it with me. We both wound up taking lots of nice 20s and 40s bottles home. After bottling, we did an hour or two of digging, and it was magical. Josh walked over to me at one point, and said, "Is that a cellar hole over there?" It was! In that short period of time, I dug 2 more buttons, an 1844 half dime, 1802 half reale, and then another half reale - 1781. Right after digging my last coin, Josh dug one himself - a King George! His coin is either 1770 or 1779 from what we can see. He also dug 2 rings, one of which was gold plated. Both appear to be period finds with the coins we were digging.
Monday I had an hour before, and an hour after work. In the hour before, I dug 2 more coins within 3 feet of each other - and boy are they old! 1781 and 1783 half reales! I did not dig any more coins after work, and no coins on Tuesday either. After work on Wednesday, that changed BIGTIME. After an hour or so of wandering around I finally hit a good signal that was not a soda can. I knew it was a coin, so I didn't use a shovel, but rather my hands to dig the 2 inches to pull up another large cent! Not 15 minutes later, I came upon another signal almost exactly the same. And again, using my fingers to go down the 3 inches necessary, I felt coin. I still don't know what this coin is, but it is HUGE! Until I know what it is, I shall name it Goliath. It measures 33mm in diameter, and it makes a large cent look tiny. I kept on hunting for a while, and about 10 minutes before total darkness kicked in, I hit a positive signal. It rang up in the shotgun shell/button range, so I never expected to see a coin roll out, let alone SILVER. Here I found another first for me - an 1853 3 cent piece in great shape! And then, not 60 seconds later, another good signal. What should roll out but my FIFTH HALF REALE - 1799!!!
Thursday was slow with no coins to speak of, and a couple buttons. Friday my lone coin was a small and silver. When I realized it was a merc, I was not so happy. After all those old coins, a merc did not sit well, but ill take it! At least it is in stellar condition except for some black spots which electrolysis will not take off.
Today( Saturday) I met Josh and Hollis(Forever Rich) for a good long day of hunting. I am saddened that in the 5 hours he spent here, Hollis did not find one keeper
. Josh did not find anything in those first 5 hours either, and then he turned into a button poppin machine. He wound up with 7, and at least one has some glimmering gilt showing through the dirt. I personally found my first old nickle in a 1908 V and 4 buttons, one with a nice gilt on the back.
In all, I have dug the following in the last 7 days:
3 Large cents
1 huge mystery copper
5 half reale
1 half dime
1 3 center
a merc
V nickle
about 15 buttons
2 civil war bullets
a thimble
a sweet old lighter
a mystery gold plated piece
an antler
about 150 shotgun shells
60-70 bottles
3 ticks down my undergarments
2 snakes
and a hubcap(gave a good reading, was 2-3 inches deep)
All the hunts blend together, so some things I forgot which day I found them on, like the third large cent and mystery golden item. I never expected any of these old goodies, but I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to dig such an excellent site. Hopefully there are many more old cellar holes awaiting me in the near future. If you have not hunted one, you don't know what you are missing
.
Thanks for reading and Happy Hunting,
Anthony
I have had an unreal week of detecting. I posted last weekend when I started hunting the site I am currently detecting. Since then, I have increased my finds twofold. I have been at this site every minute possible for 7 days. Whenever I got off work I would head there and stay until sundown. Well, the finds are beginning to slow way down, so I feel it is time to bring you all up to speed.
I started out last Sunday with low expectations. I had been in these woods once, and did not really want to go again. But I had nothing better to hunt so off I went. After 3 hours, I had 2 buttons and one large cent to my credit, and I was thrilled. I stumbled on a bottle dump, called a friend(Josh - Jrsherman), and he headed out to search it with me. We both wound up taking lots of nice 20s and 40s bottles home. After bottling, we did an hour or two of digging, and it was magical. Josh walked over to me at one point, and said, "Is that a cellar hole over there?" It was! In that short period of time, I dug 2 more buttons, an 1844 half dime, 1802 half reale, and then another half reale - 1781. Right after digging my last coin, Josh dug one himself - a King George! His coin is either 1770 or 1779 from what we can see. He also dug 2 rings, one of which was gold plated. Both appear to be period finds with the coins we were digging.
Monday I had an hour before, and an hour after work. In the hour before, I dug 2 more coins within 3 feet of each other - and boy are they old! 1781 and 1783 half reales! I did not dig any more coins after work, and no coins on Tuesday either. After work on Wednesday, that changed BIGTIME. After an hour or so of wandering around I finally hit a good signal that was not a soda can. I knew it was a coin, so I didn't use a shovel, but rather my hands to dig the 2 inches to pull up another large cent! Not 15 minutes later, I came upon another signal almost exactly the same. And again, using my fingers to go down the 3 inches necessary, I felt coin. I still don't know what this coin is, but it is HUGE! Until I know what it is, I shall name it Goliath. It measures 33mm in diameter, and it makes a large cent look tiny. I kept on hunting for a while, and about 10 minutes before total darkness kicked in, I hit a positive signal. It rang up in the shotgun shell/button range, so I never expected to see a coin roll out, let alone SILVER. Here I found another first for me - an 1853 3 cent piece in great shape! And then, not 60 seconds later, another good signal. What should roll out but my FIFTH HALF REALE - 1799!!!
Thursday was slow with no coins to speak of, and a couple buttons. Friday my lone coin was a small and silver. When I realized it was a merc, I was not so happy. After all those old coins, a merc did not sit well, but ill take it! At least it is in stellar condition except for some black spots which electrolysis will not take off.
Today( Saturday) I met Josh and Hollis(Forever Rich) for a good long day of hunting. I am saddened that in the 5 hours he spent here, Hollis did not find one keeper
. Josh did not find anything in those first 5 hours either, and then he turned into a button poppin machine. He wound up with 7, and at least one has some glimmering gilt showing through the dirt. I personally found my first old nickle in a 1908 V and 4 buttons, one with a nice gilt on the back.In all, I have dug the following in the last 7 days:
3 Large cents
1 huge mystery copper
5 half reale
1 half dime
1 3 center
a merc
V nickle
about 15 buttons
2 civil war bullets
a thimble
a sweet old lighter
a mystery gold plated piece
an antler
about 150 shotgun shells
60-70 bottles
3 ticks down my undergarments
2 snakes
and a hubcap(gave a good reading, was 2-3 inches deep)
All the hunts blend together, so some things I forgot which day I found them on, like the third large cent and mystery golden item. I never expected any of these old goodies, but I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to dig such an excellent site. Hopefully there are many more old cellar holes awaiting me in the near future. If you have not hunted one, you don't know what you are missing
.Thanks for reading and Happy Hunting,
Anthony
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and keep after it 
I have never seen that stamped before.
thats a year of digging for me in the finds department! 
