paleomaxx
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With the weekend of good weather I tested out a bunch of new sites and revisited a couple of old ones. None of the sites produced a quantity of finds, but they more than made up for it in quality! The first day I visited a couple of new cellar holes. The first was too overgrown to swing around so I'll have to go back another time. The second was perfect, but had obviously been detected before, and actually they did a pretty good job on the clear ground. However they must not have wanted to crawl through the brambles and underbrush off to one side because I found a bunch of nice shallow signals there. Good thing I brought my pruning scissors! 
The best find in the brush was a convex button that cleaned up to reveal this:
An 1840's Rifleman's button! It seems the convex one-piece buttons are pretty rare since I couldn't find many photo's online and only a few mentions in the archives. There's no back mark and the shank is missing, but otherwise a pretty awesome button and a good start to the weekend!
One dandy button and the few odds and ends above are the rest of the finds from that site.
The next day I tried out a few more cellar holes. The first was overgrown, but also ended up being a trash pit. Lots of modern bottles, tires, and sheet iron so that's a bust. The second was more promising, but was also pretty well buried by brush. I did fight through some of it turning up a couple of tombacs and a pewter spoon bowl. And then after I pulled a sweet signal out of the ground, I realized I had finally found a silver cufflink!
Yeah after two tombacs, not what I was expecting either. Must have been some more recent occupation of the site, but hey, silver is silver. Later I redid a front lawn in the center of town that I haven't done in a year. I figured I might have missed a penny or two, so when I hit on a deep high tone I was particularly surprised. It was precisely 97 on the Deus from all directions and I was so sure I had a silver half in the hole. Instead:
Talk about a shock, this thing is huge! It's actually bigger than a half dollar and just shy of a silver dollar in diameter. It's also in pretty good shape for an 1854 copper.
It's a Bank of Upper Canada one penny token and they also made a half-penny as well. They aren't rare, but it's an uncommon dig to be sure and certainly not what I was expecting to find. There were a couple of other coins too, but it seems I did a pretty good job on the lawn the first time around.
On Sunday I had very limited time so I just did a 1 hour revisit of another yard I've done before. Very low expectations, but I did manage a bucket-lister that's been evading me for a disturbingly long time:
Finally a standing liberty quarter! I can't believe it took me four years to find one, but it was completely worth it. It helps that it's in great shape with a strong date. Overall a very successful weekend and definitely recheck your old sites. There's always something still hiding!
The best find in the brush was a convex button that cleaned up to reveal this:
An 1840's Rifleman's button! It seems the convex one-piece buttons are pretty rare since I couldn't find many photo's online and only a few mentions in the archives. There's no back mark and the shank is missing, but otherwise a pretty awesome button and a good start to the weekend!
One dandy button and the few odds and ends above are the rest of the finds from that site.
The next day I tried out a few more cellar holes. The first was overgrown, but also ended up being a trash pit. Lots of modern bottles, tires, and sheet iron so that's a bust. The second was more promising, but was also pretty well buried by brush. I did fight through some of it turning up a couple of tombacs and a pewter spoon bowl. And then after I pulled a sweet signal out of the ground, I realized I had finally found a silver cufflink!
Yeah after two tombacs, not what I was expecting either. Must have been some more recent occupation of the site, but hey, silver is silver. Later I redid a front lawn in the center of town that I haven't done in a year. I figured I might have missed a penny or two, so when I hit on a deep high tone I was particularly surprised. It was precisely 97 on the Deus from all directions and I was so sure I had a silver half in the hole. Instead:Talk about a shock, this thing is huge! It's actually bigger than a half dollar and just shy of a silver dollar in diameter. It's also in pretty good shape for an 1854 copper.
It's a Bank of Upper Canada one penny token and they also made a half-penny as well. They aren't rare, but it's an uncommon dig to be sure and certainly not what I was expecting to find. There were a couple of other coins too, but it seems I did a pretty good job on the lawn the first time around.
On Sunday I had very limited time so I just did a 1 hour revisit of another yard I've done before. Very low expectations, but I did manage a bucket-lister that's been evading me for a disturbingly long time:
Finally a standing liberty quarter! I can't believe it took me four years to find one, but it was completely worth it.
It helps that it's in great shape with a strong date. Overall a very successful weekend and definitely recheck your old sites. There's always something still hiding!Amazon Forum Fav 👍
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