Surface found coins/relics

[unitas]

Hello everyone. I usually only post in the indian artifact section but I thought it would be interesting to some to post some of my other finds here.The following coins and musket balls were all surface finds found while I was hunting Indian artifacts.The first photo are some coins.A 1905 Barber dime,1910 Barber dime,UD Buffalo nickel,and an 1875IH.I've also found an 1858 IH and a V nickel (not pictured).



This is a 1943 Walker I found. It's got a bullet wound.Cool coin with a story to go with it. Was it a victim of target practice or some other crime?





This last photo features musket balls I've found at one of my sites. Of interest are the chewed muskets.I've read that when a bullet mold was lost or broken the lead was shaped into balls and chewed until it was the right circumference to be used with the gun.This was the case with some Indian traded guns which at times did not come with the bullet mold.Interesting and makes you wonder how many people died of lead poisoning.
Unitas

 

[Baggins]

Super cool eyeball finds!
HH
Baggins

 

[Prober]

Love the Barbers. Don't know much about musket balls or whether they are worth anything. Seems like there are a lot of them around.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Thats a shame that someone shot and mutilated that nice coin

 

[washingtonian]

Nice work, those are quite some finds to eyeball

 

[wyattrr]

Sweet Eyeball finds...Glad you got out to hunt. Congrats on your Scores. HH

 

[Nate in Ohio]

Eyeball finds? Wow. Makes you wonder what you'd find if you tried detecting those areas eh...? Sweet finds. HH

 

[Nashoba]

Eyeball finds? Wow. Makes you wonder what you'd find if you tried detecting those areas eh...? Sweet finds. HH

Ain't THAT the truth! Must be some AWESOME stuff underground thereabouts....Not to say those finds aren;t superb in and of themselves!
~Nash~

 

[unitas]

Eyeball finds? Wow. Makes you wonder what you'd find if you tried detecting those areas eh...? Sweet finds. HH

Ain't THAT the truth! Must be some AWESOME stuff underground thereabouts....Not to say those finds aren;t superb in and of themselves!
~Nash~

Thanks everyone. The coins were found in five different sites that i hunt arrowheads in.I own a White's metal detector but have never tried it in any of these locations. I suppose I should. I've used my detector sparingly since I got it. I'll give it a shot.

 

[RUDY2003]

Your sites will certainly produce more with the MD........

Keep diggin'...

 

[Bum Luck]

With lead, first you go crazy, then you die!

 

[bigrig43]

really cool finds!! bigrig

 

[christ-first]

cool eyeball finds. that half dollar is really interesting.

 

[dgaughan]

great finds the walker is very cool