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I teamed up with another Tnet member, and we went to a pretty non-descript farm not all that far from here. Fields were just tilled and sewn, winter wheat is just starting to come up and we have permission It is a colonial to present site. As soon as my favorite field is cut, we're going Civil War digging up here. Well, The metal in the ground was unbelievable. It was everywhere. Good stuff, no silver, and lots of shotgun shell bases and aluminum to boot. CW Buttons, 18th century musket balls, and just stuff. From what we could ascertain, there were at least three houses in the field. It's a big field. This was a grueling 6 hour hunt. I'll try to show more of the innumerable goodies tomorrow, but the buzzards are thinking of circling my house as they found out the old toad here was digging for six hours. I wanted to share one item. One unexpected find, but isn't that always the way it is?
After hour #2, I got a decent signal and out popped a what I hoped was a button. Well, it was not a button. I really like buttons. No shank. So, it's a quarter sized copper coin. A Farthing? No, it is in great shape, and I finally saw the hole in the center! Wait! The hole in the CENTER! And all those squiggly lines? It's a Chinese coin. So give me a break, a CHINESE coin in the corn field. Man, they've been sending stuff over here since like forever. It has great detail and I have left the dirt in the recesses as it shows the coin off better.
It is a Chinese Ch'ing Dynasty coin, the Emperor was Kao Tsung who reigned from 1736 to 1795. This particular one is called Ch'ien Lung. So, who would have thought? An 18th century CHINESE coin, and very well made to say the least! It's almost nap time, thankfully.
I teamed up with another Tnet member, and we went to a pretty non-descript farm not all that far from here. Fields were just tilled and sewn, winter wheat is just starting to come up and we have permission It is a colonial to present site. As soon as my favorite field is cut, we're going Civil War digging up here. Well, The metal in the ground was unbelievable. It was everywhere. Good stuff, no silver, and lots of shotgun shell bases and aluminum to boot. CW Buttons, 18th century musket balls, and just stuff. From what we could ascertain, there were at least three houses in the field. It's a big field. This was a grueling 6 hour hunt. I'll try to show more of the innumerable goodies tomorrow, but the buzzards are thinking of circling my house as they found out the old toad here was digging for six hours. I wanted to share one item. One unexpected find, but isn't that always the way it is?
After hour #2, I got a decent signal and out popped a what I hoped was a button. Well, it was not a button. I really like buttons. No shank. So, it's a quarter sized copper coin. A Farthing? No, it is in great shape, and I finally saw the hole in the center! Wait! The hole in the CENTER! And all those squiggly lines? It's a Chinese coin. So give me a break, a CHINESE coin in the corn field. Man, they've been sending stuff over here since like forever. It has great detail and I have left the dirt in the recesses as it shows the coin off better.
It is a Chinese Ch'ing Dynasty coin, the Emperor was Kao Tsung who reigned from 1736 to 1795. This particular one is called Ch'ien Lung. So, who would have thought? An 18th century CHINESE coin, and very well made to say the least! It's almost nap time, thankfully.
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sweet find
