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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A few years ago, two Seated dimes in one hunt would have left me smiling for months. They now just get thrown into my collection without any hope of getting looked at for years. I guess the Colonial bug has really hit me. 
Sound's and looks like a good day Don. 
