Glen's Loyalists
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I have a number of nice things to show from some recent hunts, but this is so nice I will let it stand on it's own.
So we went back to a favorite site that my son found and spent a few hours out. We got skunked. I found a bit of lead and a rivet. My son only found a bit of lead.
On the way back to the car he said, 'I am going to try the road, old road is beneath the new surface'. This is a very heavily travelled ATV road and it is packed tight. Like 15 minutes of digging and scraping to get a hole 6" deep.
Within 10 feet, he got a great signal in among a bunch of iron. After a lot of scraping, swearing and pounding at the road, this popped out on his shovel:
What a nice coin, the pictures don't do it justice. It still has some mint luster, I can't get over the condition for being in road among the gravel. And so hard to find. Even though New Brunswick is right next door to us, I never thought we would find any New Brunswick silver.
So during the American Civil War, the issuing of Greenbacks tended to drive down coin circulation. This resulted in a shortage of silver in bordering New Brunswick, which by this time apparently used a lot of American silver coinage. In Nova Scotia, we tended to use more sixpences and shillings etc prior to confederation.
The silver coin shortage caused the New Brunswick government to issue its own silver currency in the years 1862 and 1864 only, prior to joining the confederation of Canada in 1867. They issued 5, 10 and 20 cent coins. All are scarce, with the 20 cent being the most common, but the mintage is only 150,000.
So there is another bucket list for us. I have to say , I am really impressed with my sons new Nokta, The Legend detector. For the money it is a really nice bit of kit. Complete with an additional sharpshooter coil , a spare rechargeable battery (which can ride along on the stem, a nice feature), digging knife, finds bag, bluetooth headphones etc, it's a great deal. And it seems to find the stuff. If you are in the market and are looking for a great detector at a good price, I really recommend it. In some ways I like it better than my Deus 2 (the pinpointing is so much better).
Happy hunting.
So we went back to a favorite site that my son found and spent a few hours out. We got skunked. I found a bit of lead and a rivet. My son only found a bit of lead.
On the way back to the car he said, 'I am going to try the road, old road is beneath the new surface'. This is a very heavily travelled ATV road and it is packed tight. Like 15 minutes of digging and scraping to get a hole 6" deep.
Within 10 feet, he got a great signal in among a bunch of iron. After a lot of scraping, swearing and pounding at the road, this popped out on his shovel:
What a nice coin, the pictures don't do it justice. It still has some mint luster, I can't get over the condition for being in road among the gravel. And so hard to find. Even though New Brunswick is right next door to us, I never thought we would find any New Brunswick silver.
So during the American Civil War, the issuing of Greenbacks tended to drive down coin circulation. This resulted in a shortage of silver in bordering New Brunswick, which by this time apparently used a lot of American silver coinage. In Nova Scotia, we tended to use more sixpences and shillings etc prior to confederation.
The silver coin shortage caused the New Brunswick government to issue its own silver currency in the years 1862 and 1864 only, prior to joining the confederation of Canada in 1867. They issued 5, 10 and 20 cent coins. All are scarce, with the 20 cent being the most common, but the mintage is only 150,000.
So there is another bucket list for us. I have to say , I am really impressed with my sons new Nokta, The Legend detector. For the money it is a really nice bit of kit. Complete with an additional sharpshooter coil , a spare rechargeable battery (which can ride along on the stem, a nice feature), digging knife, finds bag, bluetooth headphones etc, it's a great deal. And it seems to find the stuff. If you are in the market and are looking for a great detector at a good price, I really recommend it. In some ways I like it better than my Deus 2 (the pinpointing is so much better).
Happy hunting.
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People always pull there car keys out almost back to there vehicle 
Thats why you should ALWAYS check the area closest to the parking areas
