Smoker's site 1853 Half Dime

[pepperj]

Looking over the maps and doing some measuring. I figured that there was another possibility on a permission.
So after a tilling up the gardens it was time to get a bit of playtime in.
Not a heavily targeted site for finds, but it was for glass, and pipe stems. For the 1/3 acre spead and the amount of eyeball finds it was fun filled couple of hrs.
First target was what looks like a whizzer?
(Seems like a curse as it has happened twice before,first and last good target)

The next hour was nails, iron, one piece of lead. I started to work down the slope
and got a nice sounding 95.

Just broke the soil and it appeared. I could see by the stars and size I had a good one!
Now it needs a like soaking to take off the crust, but no less it was an easy retrieval.

Then another hour before I got the candle snuffer end.

So an ok little scratch the itch from a new site.
First time I've gotten a grey pipe stem.
There's the open pontil ends again. Teasers they are!

Thanks for looking, and best of luck to you all on the next dig.

 

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[Steve in PA]

8 trips across the pond.
You have have a huge # of Spanish.
Well done!
I only have a couple of Spanish.
We're not old enough in the area to get a hammered over here.
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Love those hammered silvers.

 

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[vpnavy]

Nice assortment of finds pepperj. Thanks for sharing...

 

[pepperj]

Pepperj…that half dime is so nice.
You are off to a great start this season
Congratulations

Thanks Bill
Hope all is going well and you're enjoying the spring weather.

 

[Tpmetal]

That's quite a few small silvers. Looks like you've been to the UK as well.
I think my lack of half dimes is related to my lack of seated coinage. While I have found 74 Spanish silvers, including 34 half reals, and hundreds of other US coins that were circulating at the same time as seated US silver, all I have to show for it is 4 seated dimes in 37 years

74 spanish is crazy! gotta be hunting locations then, maybe you are just on older ground in general? Or maybe just in an area that was pretty poor during that time period? I find that so interesting because I am at a similar number of seated(60 or so) with only one spanish silver.

 

[pepperj]

74 spanish is crazy! gotta be hunting locations then, maybe you are just on older ground in general? Or maybe just in an area that was pretty poor during that time period? I find that so interesting because I am at a similar number of seated(60 or so) with only one spanish silver.

74 Spanish! I put my 2 in a comfy little container to see if the have offspring-no luck as of yet.

It's always a head scratcher in why some areas produce a certain coinage-and others don't.
If the age is the same, areas should have the same type of coinage, one would assume.

The thing is who was there, meaning ethnic and how long did they reside pre/post the site.
One instant is the cellar holes/homesteads of the first Quakers that came to the area.
Nearly zero even for a copper-relics yes-coinage was tight in the coin purses.

 

[JeffInMass]

Great work nabbing that little beauty- Congrats!

 

[pepperj]

Great work nabbing that little beauty- Congrats!

Thanks Jeff
I might slip down for a quick hunt using the deep program.