Ring #49, Wheats, Bullet and Old Religious Cross & Locket

[Natman]

Ring #49, Wheats, Bullet and Old Religious Cross & Locket

Hi all,

I went out yesterday to a house I've checked numerous times..I came up with 7 more wheats..I must have pulled up 40 of them in this back yard alone!

What's funny is that I wanted to dig signals that didn't even appear to be coin signals..the thick grass and bumpy terrain of the yard made the wheat signals appear to be junk. I'd re-check the hole each time I dug out a clump of earth and the signal would not only get stronger, but change to a more favorable target until the display started showing it was a coin.

I also found an old cross and an old locket..the locket is only the width of a dime, and I didn't know what it was until I looked at it under a magnifyer and saw it could be separated. I was surprised to find an image of Jesus on one side and Mary on the other. (Does anyone know what the letters and intials mean?)

Today I felt like ring hunting so I took off to a few schools and found about $5 in clad and my 49th ring of the year! It was another .925 silver, found in the wood chips.

This 2-ringer bullet was found in a yard where I dug up a 1945 Merc..can anyone tell me what kind of bullet it is or its approximate age?

Thanks,
Nat

 

[Mirage]

Re: Ring #49, Wheats, Bullet and Old Religious Cross & Locket

Congratulations on #49. I wasn't too impress with # 50 though.

40 wheats - that's a lot for one yard.

Bob

 

[SilverFox167]

Re: Ring #49, Wheats, Bullet and Old Religious Cross & Locket

Nice finds Nate,
I wonder what you will come up with next.
I always enjoy seeing your post, because you seem to always have something different that you have found.
HH

 

[Natman]

Re: Ring #49, Wheats, Bullet and Old Religious Cross & Locket

Congratulations on #49. I wasn't too impress with # 50 though.

I wasn't either Bob, but I did add it to my collection..I found a kid's tin ring at a school the day I found my last silver one, but didn't consider it in my count.

My wheat count is at 207 so far this year, and all but a few are from private yards..2 yards combined yielded about 80 of them..one yard had about 25 in a 3 by 3 foot area..some kid may have buried them intentionally.

Nat

 

[Natman]

Re: Ring #49, Wheats, Bullet and Old Religious Cross & Locket

Nice finds Nate,
I wonder what you will come up with next.
I always enjoy seeing your post, because you seem to always have something different that you have found.
HH

Thanks, I enjoy hunting the older private yards..I get silver coins plus a wide variety of finds people have lost over the years..I can always tell the yards where lots of people/kids have been..the yards with hardly anything to find are the ones where no kids were, or only had one or two owners.

Nat