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After a string of bad luck on the door knocking front, I finally found a street of early 1800's houses that don't seem to have been detected before and the residents have all been very friendly and excited to see what I can pull from the ground. At one house they did own a metal detector, but said that they'd never found much and after a few minutes I could tell why. The ground has severe mineralization and the background chatter made casual detecting an effort. I'm not done at that house so I'll post on it later, but these finds are from two doors down and I just had to share. All of these finds were from one side of the yard and there was significant mineralization here as well so I'm far from done even in that little plot, but the target density was incredible. First the silver:
My first silver half dollar! And it's a Franklin half which I would not have guessed. One of the mercury dimes looks like it has been in a fire, but the other dimes and quarters are in good shape. I was a little surprised that no barber or seated coins came out of the ground considering the age of the other finds, but I'm sure there in the yard somewhere. Not to say I didn't find my share of old coinage.
In addition to ten wheat pennies (1940's-1950's) I found two Indian Head pennies, an 1864 and 1893. I also found two large cents and both were within a few inches of the surface. One is 1853 and the other 1832. The pictures don't do them justice, but both have very good details for yard coppers. Interestingly I also found several foreign coins including two french coins on top of each other.
The 20 francs coin had me going for a second, but sadly it isn't gold. That one is 1952 and the 1 franc coin is 1948. The British penny was very deep and 1919. My first guess on the button is royal navy, but I'd definitely be curious if any of the button experts have an idea on the age. It's a two-piece, but no backmarks. There were plenty of other mysteries among the relics.
Feel free to chime in on any of those; especially the stamped plate. It almost looked like a buckle, but it's really thin brass so maybe not. The round piece has some mother-of-pearl left that the ground mostly ate away. I also found the amazing perfume bottle that is copper clad glass.
There may have been printed marking on the outside at one time, but nothing is left. I'm very curious to know the age of it though. Here's the compilation shot of everything.
Not bad for only a few hours work. Had it not been 90+ degrees I would have dug even more, but the heat finally got to me. If all goes well I'll be going back next weekend. The family was very fun to talk to and they were around the yard so I showed them all of the finds as they came out of the ground. The age of some of the pieces blew them away and we had a great time going over the maps that I have of the area and it turns out they live in what used to be the doctor's house back in the mid 1850's. Their neighbor also stopped by and asked me if I could help her find a gold bracelet she lost some years back. Unfortunately the weeds have grown up in the area she lost it, but I gave her my number and we'll give it a try when they die down in the fall. She was very sweet too and asked me what my hourly rate was, but I told her I'd be glad to do it just for the fun of trying to find it. It's a large area but I do hope I can find it; it sounds like it's a special piece to her. Anyways, that'll probably be all until the heat wave passes, but if any of those mystery pieces look familiar definitely shout out!
My first silver half dollar! And it's a Franklin half which I would not have guessed. One of the mercury dimes looks like it has been in a fire, but the other dimes and quarters are in good shape. I was a little surprised that no barber or seated coins came out of the ground considering the age of the other finds, but I'm sure there in the yard somewhere. Not to say I didn't find my share of old coinage.
In addition to ten wheat pennies (1940's-1950's) I found two Indian Head pennies, an 1864 and 1893. I also found two large cents and both were within a few inches of the surface. One is 1853 and the other 1832. The pictures don't do them justice, but both have very good details for yard coppers. Interestingly I also found several foreign coins including two french coins on top of each other.
The 20 francs coin had me going for a second, but sadly it isn't gold. That one is 1952 and the 1 franc coin is 1948. The British penny was very deep and 1919. My first guess on the button is royal navy, but I'd definitely be curious if any of the button experts have an idea on the age. It's a two-piece, but no backmarks. There were plenty of other mysteries among the relics.
Feel free to chime in on any of those; especially the stamped plate. It almost looked like a buckle, but it's really thin brass so maybe not. The round piece has some mother-of-pearl left that the ground mostly ate away. I also found the amazing perfume bottle that is copper clad glass.
There may have been printed marking on the outside at one time, but nothing is left. I'm very curious to know the age of it though. Here's the compilation shot of everything.
Not bad for only a few hours work. Had it not been 90+ degrees I would have dug even more, but the heat finally got to me. If all goes well I'll be going back next weekend. The family was very fun to talk to and they were around the yard so I showed them all of the finds as they came out of the ground. The age of some of the pieces blew them away and we had a great time going over the maps that I have of the area and it turns out they live in what used to be the doctor's house back in the mid 1850's. Their neighbor also stopped by and asked me if I could help her find a gold bracelet she lost some years back. Unfortunately the weeds have grown up in the area she lost it, but I gave her my number and we'll give it a try when they die down in the fall. She was very sweet too and asked me what my hourly rate was, but I told her I'd be glad to do it just for the fun of trying to find it. It's a large area but I do hope I can find it; it sounds like it's a special piece to her. Anyways, that'll probably be all until the heat wave passes, but if any of those mystery pieces look familiar definitely shout out!
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