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- All Treasure Hunting
Here's the finds from a couple short hunts this weekend. These were recovered from a couple sites that Jeff and I have previously hit hard.
On Friday, I went out for alittle while by myself (Jeff had duty). This was a site that produced some nice finds in the past, but because of the amount of can slaw and trash I knew there were more nice things to be had, if you had the spare time and patience to go through and weed out the signals/trash. After about 20 minutes and my second hole I got a fairly nice button signal but to my pleasant surprise, out popped a Beautiful G.A.R. Medal!
On Sunday, we went back to a different site that produced MANY nice things in the past. We went to dig the faintest of Iron signals in hopes of finding a spare button or coin. We didn't really get anything worth mentioning after about 1-1/2 hours of digging so decided to call it quits. Jeff headed out and but as I had nothing else to do for the rest of the day, I told him I was going to hang around for about 15 more minutes and then head out as well. As Jeff was driving out I got a Irony signal and dug down and it was a very old Pewter Button (lots of the old, deep pewter sound like iron here)....However, after about 15 more minutes I decided to call it a day and was swinging back to the car when I got another Irony signal, but this one seemed to be masking something as I was getting an ever so faint signal on the back swing!
LETS INVESTIGATE! After digging and digging and digging down about 12- 13 inches I heard two distinct signals; one iron and the other a +78 on the MXT 
. I took one more scoop of dirt with the shovel and scanned to find it in the pile of dirt....pulled out the pinpointer and it sniffed out a nice 1851 Seated Dime! 
IN this field, knowing how hard we've hit this place and no real signals to speak of, this was one hell of a find to sniff out in our opinions.
Here's the pics below, hope you guys like them
VIDEO (Note, I'm in a field NOT a yard, that's why it wasn't a big deal to dig down looking for it as it was NOT pinpointing at all with the big IRON 6 inches away~ )
[size=13pt]Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Medal Pin (Union Civil War Soldiers' Organization)[/size]
(This was an autonomous piece but has a small bar to add a ribbon to the bottom if the veteran so wanted to.)
(Had to reinforce the Ribbon bar as it was barely hanging on.)
Example of Similar G.A.R. Medals: (These with optional Ribbons attached. The one on left shows that the Eagle Device on top was a seperate piece.)
1851 Seated Dime
(Uncleaned: Found probably 10 ft. from where I dug the 1875 Seated Dime a couple months back.)
Group Shot
Other Finds
Back of Pewter Button
Unknown Brass (Looks like it may have attached to iron from the remnants of Iron on the back and the iron stain on front coming from what looks like rivet holes.)
On Friday, I went out for alittle while by myself (Jeff had duty). This was a site that produced some nice finds in the past, but because of the amount of can slaw and trash I knew there were more nice things to be had, if you had the spare time and patience to go through and weed out the signals/trash. After about 20 minutes and my second hole I got a fairly nice button signal but to my pleasant surprise, out popped a Beautiful G.A.R. Medal!
On Sunday, we went back to a different site that produced MANY nice things in the past. We went to dig the faintest of Iron signals in hopes of finding a spare button or coin. We didn't really get anything worth mentioning after about 1-1/2 hours of digging so decided to call it quits. Jeff headed out and but as I had nothing else to do for the rest of the day, I told him I was going to hang around for about 15 more minutes and then head out as well. As Jeff was driving out I got a Irony signal and dug down and it was a very old Pewter Button (lots of the old, deep pewter sound like iron here)....However, after about 15 more minutes I decided to call it a day and was swinging back to the car when I got another Irony signal, but this one seemed to be masking something as I was getting an ever so faint signal on the back swing!
LETS INVESTIGATE! After digging and digging and digging down about 12- 13 inches I heard two distinct signals; one iron and the other a +78 on the MXT . I took one more scoop of dirt with the shovel and scanned to find it in the pile of dirt....pulled out the pinpointer and it sniffed out a nice 1851 Seated Dime! IN this field, knowing how hard we've hit this place and no real signals to speak of, this was one hell of a find to sniff out in our opinions.Here's the pics below, hope you guys like them
VIDEO (Note, I'm in a field NOT a yard, that's why it wasn't a big deal to dig down looking for it as it was NOT pinpointing at all with the big IRON 6 inches away~ )
[size=13pt]Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Medal Pin (Union Civil War Soldiers' Organization)[/size]
(This was an autonomous piece but has a small bar to add a ribbon to the bottom if the veteran so wanted to.)
(Had to reinforce the Ribbon bar as it was barely hanging on.)
Example of Similar G.A.R. Medals: (These with optional Ribbons attached. The one on left shows that the Eagle Device on top was a seperate piece.)
1851 Seated Dime
(Uncleaned: Found probably 10 ft. from where I dug the 1875 Seated Dime a couple months back.)
Group Shot
Other Finds
Back of Pewter Button
Unknown Brass (Looks like it may have attached to iron from the remnants of Iron on the back and the iron stain on front coming from what looks like rivet holes.)
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good one, that's what we like 
Knowing how HARD we've hit that dirt, I really was amazed that that popped out. It sounded just like iron and BARELY audible at that...thats the reason we hadn't nabbed it before now 
