this is just my two cents, plus......

[port ewen ace]

started the day solo at the knoll behind town park again where I landed the 3 Indians on 4/26. only found this old spoon that in the opinion of FMERG is 1800's English 80% AG. then Frank calls and says pick him up and we can hunt a cemetery in Stone Ridge, NY. we get there and ground crew says not without board permission. on to another cemetery in same town dating to the 1600's and nothing but scarce clad and trash. this sucks, back to a park in Kingston, again crappy scarce clad. across the street is city owned burned out 1800's house, my 1st and only hole and out pops a coin too small for a qtr and too big for a nickel. my 1st 2 cent from 1864 but the motto is worn smooth. last pic is from 1820 house in town of Esopus, a gas lamp assembly with valve manifold

 

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[Carolina Tom]

really nice finds.

 

[park pirate]

Nice two center..

 

[jewelerguy]

good stuff. looks like someone used that spoon as a hammer

 

[port ewen ace]

stopped at the LCS today. Neil from Colonial Stamp & Coin, Kingston NY confirms- 2 cent is small motto, spoon is 1850's European 80% AG, weighs 1.14 troy ounce, sadly motto is worn smooth on the 2 cent but peroxide removed all the green and crud with no damage to details

 

[RobRieman]

I can't believe you haven't been eaten alive yet for saying you were hunting cemeteries.

 

[housemom6]

I agree with Rob. Cemeteries are off limits and it doesn't matter how old they are. I'm not even a particularly religious person. I do however see detecting on a known cemetery as grave robbing. It is at least bad mojo.

 

[Argentium]

Nice find on that spoon and the 2 center ! I'm not surprised to hear the spoon is not English (the hallmarks aren't English at all )
"European" is a bit of a broad brush - I would guess Scandinavia or Russia with the 800 alloy mark .

 

[Pointman]

Nice.

I hunt cemeteries, but I find way too many buttons, lol. Just joking.

 

[oakhunter27]

Nice i would love to find one

Sent from my SCH-S738C using TreasureNet in the middle of a field somewhere

 

[vpnavy]

Great finds Ace! Thanks for sharing...

 

[port ewen ace]

the first time I hunted a graveyard I also felt uneasy, but after hunting 6 of them and finding absolutely nothing I concluded that many had been there before me. the only thing that is consistent in graveyards is rifle brass, 12 ga. shotgun brass, pulltabs and broken diecast toy cars. regarding the .800 silver spoon it is likely mid 1850's Germany

 

[fastfrank]

Couple years back I was working out your way and decided to hunt the stony Pt. battle field.Did good right away!A barber dime,then a merc,then a kid rolled up to me on a lawn tractor and threw me out.Congratz on the two center and silver spoon.Try the lawn at Bear mt..It's awesome!!