Return to the Chinese Camp

kuger · Dec 1, 2009

Sunday,I was in the area of Chinese camp that I have hunted for a couple of years and it is always good to me.I have dug probably two dozen chinese coins there so I decided to set a goal to pull another 5...I did!Picked up a couple more in out lying areas.My cousin dug 5 as well.Found a first for me,the one with the four holes?

vayank54 · Dec 1, 2009

Very cool. that place has been good to you.
I found about a dozen of those coins at an old house site but have never found any others.

kuger · Dec 1, 2009

Thanks "V",that site has been VERY good to me,I dug my first opium pipe saddle there,as well as several other significant finds.Everytime I leave I am pretty sure it is worked out,but as seen its not!The big challenge there is the opium tin slaw that is everywhere,you have to wade through that...but its worth it.These coins pop up in the darndest places,you never know where you might find one.

vayank54 · Dec 1, 2009

I know what you mean about places like that. It's like the stuff hides or something. The first coin like that I ever saw was one my mom found in an old wooden bucket of buttons an old lady gave her in the '60's. My mom gave it to me and I still have that coin. The house site I dug mine at dates from colonial times to the early 1900's. By the foundation, the house had burnt to the ground years ago, it was a huge house and I kept finding these big odd shaped pieces of copper. I finally figured out by the pieces I dug that the house was trimmed with copper. I figured the owners were well off and wondered if the coins had belonged to servants or something.

tinpan · Dec 2, 2009

Hi kuger, Nice finds and i,m still looking for my first opium pipe.Like the buckle.

tinpan

kuger · Dec 2, 2009

tinpan said:
Hi kuger, Nice finds and i,m still looking for my first opium pipe.Like the buckle.

tinpan

Thanks guys,
Tin,I searched for a long time then whammo,I found the saddle,then a mouth piece,then a different type of pipe(more like tobacco)all in different camps in different areas months apart.I am still searching for a dampner bowl though,I have found the collars but no complete bowl yet! :thumbsup:

seger98 · Dec 2, 2009

Nice finds.

johnnyi · Dec 2, 2009

Kugar, those are mighty neat finds. What were the Chinese doing there at the time; building the railroad, working the mines?? There's so much history to a site like your's, I hope one day you post all the bits and pieces together for a "group shot". :icon_thumleft:

hikeinmts · Dec 2, 2009

Hey Kugar, I have found several similar Chinese and Korean holed coins with extra holes in them. Used to see them in
the junk boxes here in S. K. But, of late, beginning to see them in auction books, under "Charms." Some charms are made
to look like coins, but have pictures on them, while others were coins, but were converted to Charms by putting extra holes
in them, making them 6-sided, 8-sided, etc. Getting some pretty good prices for them here in S. Korea. Don't know about
Chinese charms in China......don't know if there is a market, or not.
If you can't decide what to do with it, send it over and I'll dress it up, and submit it - through my partner in Seoul, and see what
some Korean will give you for it. Don't know if it will even sell, as it is not Korean. But, we could try.
Great finds.
Oh, went out last Saturday.....only got 11 keepers, but one of them was a Korean holed coin, made in 1888. Looked like new.
Best one I have ever found. In the catalogues for about $400. +. Even getting lucky here in Korea. :hello:

TerryC · Dec 2, 2009

Hey Kugar,
If you're only digging Chinese coins... you're digging too deep!! Just kidding.... good work! TTC

allen · Dec 2, 2009

good job on that nice assortment of finds !

kuger · Dec 2, 2009

hikeinmts said:
Hey Kugar, I have found several similar Chinese and Korean holed coins with extra holes in them. Used to see them in
the junk boxes here in S. K. But, of late, beginning to see them in auction books, under "Charms." Some charms are made
to look like coins, but have pictures on them, while others were coins, but were converted to Charms by putting extra holes
in them, making them 6-sided, 8-sided, etc. Getting some pretty good prices for them here in S. Korea. Don't know about
Chinese charms in China......don't know if there is a market, or not.
If you can't decide what to do with it, send it over and I'll dress it up, and submit it - through my partner in Seoul, and see what
some Korean will give you for it. Don't know if it will even sell, as it is not Korean. But, we could try.
Great finds.
Oh, went out last Saturday.....only got 11 keepers, but one of them was a Korean holed coin, made in 1888. Looked like new.
Best one I have ever found. In the catalogues for about $400. +. Even getting lucky here in Korea.

Hey Hike!I am working on another bunch for ya to I.D..I sure appreciate that.Thanks for the info,thats interesting,I have not dug one like it and I have dug well over a hundred of them!Keep diggin over there and post a few,I would love to see them.
Thanks Allen
Terry them Whites get that kind of depth!!!

WhiteHunter · Dec 2, 2009

What date are the coins, there pretty cool :icon_thumright:

RiverRat3 · Dec 2, 2009

Nice finds, I am sure there are many more out there.

kuger · Dec 2, 2009

WhiteHunter said:
What date are the coins, there pretty cool

Hike I.D ed a few for me last year and most of them are in the 16-1700's,crazy that they arent worth more but there is just to many of them out there I guess.
River Rat Thanks, there is MANY more I am sure! :thumbsup:

Woodland Detectors · Dec 2, 2009

That is so cool

Ironman! · Dec 2, 2009

WTG Kuger, looks like your doing great in that site. Love the buckle and the coin with the extra holes!

See ya on the 11th!
Ironman!

BuckleBoy · Dec 2, 2009

Looks like one of those poor immigrants needed a button for their coat.

Great finds--I'd take that buckle piece in such excellent shape any day of the week.
:thumbsup:

-Buckles

trikikiwi · Dec 2, 2009

Nice Finds all right :icon_thumleft:

I think the coin with the extra holes, wouldn't function as a button. The holes are made at the 'outermost' points of the diamond/square. If I made myself a button - it would be a World's First!! but seriously Folks,
for a button, I would make the holes closer to the center, as would have been possible here.
To me, those holes look like they have been made in different shapes on purpose :icon_scratch:

Is one hole, heart shaped? A Love Token?

A closer pic if possible, will be cool.

Mike

hikeinmts · Dec 3, 2009

Kugar, I'll have to take the pics of them, and then put them on the net. You'll see quite a variety. Just no Chinese.
So, the Chinese must have done the same thing to some of their coins that the Koreans did to theirs.......interesting.
Both countries made the charms......so no reason for them not to retool some of their coins, too.