Two Digs: GREAT Relics and CARSON CITY SILVER!

BuckleBoy · Jan 28, 2014

Hello All,

What you see below is two hunts worth. Went out after the ice storm in Louisiana to dig with Shanegalang but he couldn't get to the site due to road closures.

So we dug some silver without him. But he made up for it Big Time when he joined us later on for a hunt where he struck Carson City silver! I have never dug a CC minted coin. Nor have I ever seen one dug. So this is a first for us, and an unusual find down here. His 1876-CC Seated is quite an excellent coin for condition. DiggerGirl also got some nice finds with a 1943 Quarter, Amusement Token, and especially her find of a Picket Pin!!

I scored a little silver with two war nickels and a mercury dime. It has been fun digging all this new silver, but we're starting to crave something older again.

We did get a couple good signs that tell us we were close to an old spot. The pottery was early 1800s in spots, we found a clay pipe stem, and picked up several bone buttons... Soon we'll be back at it again, after the antebellum stuff. But it's been fun to dig over $2 face value in silver in a couple hunts, even if it was modern.

Here are the photos and video. Enjoy.

Silver:

CW era (and earlier) bone buttons:

DiggerGirl's great Picket Pin:

And Shanegalang's excellent condition Carson City Seated Dime:

Combined finds, minus the picket pin, merc, two nickels, token, and one of the bone buttons...

Cheers,

The CaneField Bandits

Msbeepbeep · Jan 29, 2014

Congrats on your seated CC dime, nice! Lots of other great finds too!

wheatfinder13 · Jan 29, 2014

Very nice seated silver

kuger · Jan 29, 2014

You ever get out this way,we will go tour the Mint,it is a pretty cool tour,and connected to the State Museum which is pretty awesome as well.When I was living in Reno,a construction Company was digging down the road,and dug up some of the original coin dies!!!No one has/had a clue why/how they got where they were

Valley Ranger · Jan 29, 2014

Great stuff and video!

Tnmountains · Jan 29, 2014

Looks like you guys are all over the map with finds. I have to admit I like that big iron picket pin Digger Girl got. You guys find a lot of silver but the iron is special. It will clean up and be a very fine example of times gone by.
Good job Cane Field Bandits look forward to a great season. (we are covered in ice here as well it's like 11 degrees ).
HH

BuckleBoy · Jan 30, 2014

kuger said:
You ever get out this way,we will go tour the Mint,it is a pretty cool tour,and connected to the State Museum which is pretty awesome as well.When I was living in Reno,a construction Company was digging down the road,and dug up some of the original coin dies!!!No one has/had a clue why/how they got where they were

Wow! GREAT story there! Well, you ever get down this way we'll tour a mint too.

BuckleBoy · Jan 30, 2014

Tnmountains said:
Looks like you guys are all over the map with finds. I have to admit I like that big iron picket pin Digger Girl got. You guys find a lot of silver but the iron is special. It will clean up and be a very fine example of times gone by.
Good job Cane Field Bandits look forward to a great season. (we are covered in ice here as well it's like 11 degrees ).
HH

Diggergirl says thanks for the compliment. She is thrilled with the find, and I can't wait to remove the rust from it and get it preserved.

Best Wishes,

Buck

kuger · Jan 31, 2014

Deal!!

VERDE · Jan 31, 2014

Hey Buck!! CONGRATS on your recent Finds!! You guys are Really Brave to challenge the recent weather we have just experienced!! BURR!! Anyway GOOD LUCK and GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!