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Today's Colonial Water Trip Yields a coin I've never found & a heart attack
I managed to sneak out for another couple of hours today to the old watering hole and as usual, I was not disappointed. The day started off a bit slow and as with last time, the conditions were just not perfect. That being said, I made the best of it and kept poking around. I started off at the "buck shot hole" that Beau and I dug last time and after a small handful, I decided to move on to bigger and better targets.
A bullet here and a flat button there had me thinking that the day was not going to add up to much and that my coin streak from this site would be broken. Then the heart attack - I finally had what I knew was a decent target when a large and what appeared to be silver coin was staring back at me. This one had a BIG cross and crude edging. I immediately began to think it was an early coin until I flipped it over to reveal its true self, an early and cool lead seal. Still happy with it, but my blood was pumping.
I spent the rest of the day poking around and digging iffy signals and towards the end of the trip I heard a slight squeak and it was deep. After about 5 minutes of fanning and clawing away at the clay bottom, out popped a silver coin. A 1737 Louis XV d'ecu silver! This one is a is a Nantes mint (marked "T") and certainly a coin that I have not dug before. I am very pleased with it indeed. I am sure it is more common across the pond, but I have not really seen one dug at any colonial site that I've poked around at over the years.
This site continues to be fun to dig as there are plenty of targets that reveal interesting bits of history, from lead shot (of all sizes) to homemade sinkers and net weights. There is a good amount of iron and other items from period nails to odds and ends that mask plenty of targets there.
My take for the day on this trip was the coin (it cleaned up real nice after a quick clean), the lead seal, 4 buttons (including a nice and complete vented button), the ornate brass leather piece, broken shoe buckles, 24 balls/shot of various sizes (6 being larger and one hammered down). The folded rat-tail spoon dish might go to the stem I dug last trip.
HH
Dan
I managed to sneak out for another couple of hours today to the old watering hole and as usual, I was not disappointed. The day started off a bit slow and as with last time, the conditions were just not perfect. That being said, I made the best of it and kept poking around. I started off at the "buck shot hole" that Beau and I dug last time and after a small handful, I decided to move on to bigger and better targets.
A bullet here and a flat button there had me thinking that the day was not going to add up to much and that my coin streak from this site would be broken. Then the heart attack - I finally had what I knew was a decent target when a large and what appeared to be silver coin was staring back at me. This one had a BIG cross and crude edging. I immediately began to think it was an early coin until I flipped it over to reveal its true self, an early and cool lead seal. Still happy with it, but my blood was pumping.
I spent the rest of the day poking around and digging iffy signals and towards the end of the trip I heard a slight squeak and it was deep. After about 5 minutes of fanning and clawing away at the clay bottom, out popped a silver coin. A 1737 Louis XV d'ecu silver! This one is a is a Nantes mint (marked "T") and certainly a coin that I have not dug before. I am very pleased with it indeed. I am sure it is more common across the pond, but I have not really seen one dug at any colonial site that I've poked around at over the years.
This site continues to be fun to dig as there are plenty of targets that reveal interesting bits of history, from lead shot (of all sizes) to homemade sinkers and net weights. There is a good amount of iron and other items from period nails to odds and ends that mask plenty of targets there.
My take for the day on this trip was the coin (it cleaned up real nice after a quick clean), the lead seal, 4 buttons (including a nice and complete vented button), the ornate brass leather piece, broken shoe buckles, 24 balls/shot of various sizes (6 being larger and one hammered down). The folded rat-tail spoon dish might go to the stem I dug last trip.
HH
Dan
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