Juice in the hole
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I was walking the dogs yesterday and decided to do some metal detecting around the yard and woods here on the farm. The "watchamacallit I found in the field and It's about an inch and a half long. It could be farm related and possibly from colonial period (from the depth).
The silver thing I'm calling a cob is a little over 1/2 long and rang up as a gold nugget (15-16 VDI on Whites VX3) and when I dug it, I thought it looked like a fired .22 slug that had struck home. My finacee rubbed some of the crud off and thought she saw the faint impression of a shield "like on the Spanish coin we found". So I decided not to toss it in the trash pocket. After we got home, I retested it with the MD and still it came up gold, so into the CLR it went. What the hey. After some delicate scrubbing with a soft toothbrush, I too could faintly see the shield she was talking about. In the pics, the shield is centered right side up and towards the top of the piece.
The real mystery here though is my rock. Once back out of the woods and field, I decided to poke around the yard, which is mostly sand really. I usually find clad pennies, nickels and dimes from our early 50's home, but they're almost always 3-4" deep at most. This "rock" rang up as a solid quarter (82-84 VDI) 7 1/2" deep. I didn't even realize what I was looking for as I cleaned out my hole and located a rock at the bottom. I pried it loose, tossed it onto my pile and continued digging. After another two scoops, I stuck the pinpointer in the hole and nothing. So I'm frantically searching through my spoils for my precious quarter when low and behold the "rock" sets off the pinpointer. I test it under the MD and sure enough, 82-84...quarter. So I bring it inside and into the CLR it goes too. I scrubbed for a bit with the toothbrush and hand picked away this odd black tar substance with toothpicks. After cleaning, I took some pics and then broke out the Mother's Mag polish to see if she shined. After a few minutes of rubbing, I snapped a couple more pics. You be the judge. What is my heavy silver rock?
The silver thing I'm calling a cob is a little over 1/2 long and rang up as a gold nugget (15-16 VDI on Whites VX3) and when I dug it, I thought it looked like a fired .22 slug that had struck home. My finacee rubbed some of the crud off and thought she saw the faint impression of a shield "like on the Spanish coin we found". So I decided not to toss it in the trash pocket. After we got home, I retested it with the MD and still it came up gold, so into the CLR it went. What the hey. After some delicate scrubbing with a soft toothbrush, I too could faintly see the shield she was talking about. In the pics, the shield is centered right side up and towards the top of the piece.
The real mystery here though is my rock. Once back out of the woods and field, I decided to poke around the yard, which is mostly sand really. I usually find clad pennies, nickels and dimes from our early 50's home, but they're almost always 3-4" deep at most. This "rock" rang up as a solid quarter (82-84 VDI) 7 1/2" deep. I didn't even realize what I was looking for as I cleaned out my hole and located a rock at the bottom. I pried it loose, tossed it onto my pile and continued digging. After another two scoops, I stuck the pinpointer in the hole and nothing. So I'm frantically searching through my spoils for my precious quarter when low and behold the "rock" sets off the pinpointer. I test it under the MD and sure enough, 82-84...quarter. So I bring it inside and into the CLR it goes too. I scrubbed for a bit with the toothbrush and hand picked away this odd black tar substance with toothpicks. After cleaning, I took some pics and then broke out the Mother's Mag polish to see if she shined. After a few minutes of rubbing, I snapped a couple more pics. You be the judge. What is my heavy silver rock?
