Don in SJ
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I did a nice long hike this morning, hoping to find a new site, but after miles of walking and swingin at the same time all I could muster was a stray old gilt type button buried on the dirt road. None of the possible sites proved to be one.
However I was parked next to an old overgrown, now forested in pines 18th and 19th century field. Don't know if a homestead was located somewhere in the field (many acres in size) but will check it out next week.
So, as I was walking thru the now Pine forested old field, I was not too happy to see that the locals over the years used it as a scattered dumping ground for small trash items, not solid, but almost every reading I got was something more from the early 1900s to 1940s than the age of the working farm at some time.
I finally got a very distinct coin reading, very deep, which raised my hopes of an old coin. Down about 8 inches in the very sandy soil, a coated silver dime appeared. One side was visible and it was a 1886 Seated Dime. I covered up the hole and made the customary swing over it before I moved on and there was another identical type reading in the hole, dug it out again, just expanding it a tad and another crusty coated dime appeared. Wow, two dimes in one hole, for me that is unusual, by that, I mean I rarely get two old coins in one hole but this month it happened earlier with the 1775 KGIII and 1802 Large Cent.
I covered up the hole a second time and gosh, as I swung the coil again over the filled in hole another weak signal appeared, not quite as good as the dime hits, but I was hoping it would be my third dime, but it was a crusty, coated copper, that I was sure was an Indianhead.
Upon cleaning the finds, the button from the road is early 1800s, and the coins were a 1886 and 1876 Seated Dime and a 1873 Indian head penny.
So a satisfying hunt again, and a good walk to boot.
Don
However I was parked next to an old overgrown, now forested in pines 18th and 19th century field. Don't know if a homestead was located somewhere in the field (many acres in size) but will check it out next week.
So, as I was walking thru the now Pine forested old field, I was not too happy to see that the locals over the years used it as a scattered dumping ground for small trash items, not solid, but almost every reading I got was something more from the early 1900s to 1940s than the age of the working farm at some time.
I finally got a very distinct coin reading, very deep, which raised my hopes of an old coin. Down about 8 inches in the very sandy soil, a coated silver dime appeared. One side was visible and it was a 1886 Seated Dime. I covered up the hole and made the customary swing over it before I moved on and there was another identical type reading in the hole, dug it out again, just expanding it a tad and another crusty coated dime appeared. Wow, two dimes in one hole, for me that is unusual, by that, I mean I rarely get two old coins in one hole but this month it happened earlier with the 1775 KGIII and 1802 Large Cent.
I covered up the hole a second time and gosh, as I swung the coil again over the filled in hole another weak signal appeared, not quite as good as the dime hits, but I was hoping it would be my third dime, but it was a crusty, coated copper, that I was sure was an Indianhead.
Upon cleaning the finds, the button from the road is early 1800s, and the coins were a 1886 and 1876 Seated Dime and a 1873 Indian head penny.
So a satisfying hunt again, and a good walk to boot.
Don
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