I dug a ton of nickel signals and even more high tone silver range signals, but it was just not meant to be, it was an all penny fest, no silver, no old nickels
This is from 3 days in the field, lots of hours on two productive field sites I found. I dug 14 indians with 1867 being the oldest. A ton of early wheats, including 1909 and many teen years. Found a nice assortment of buttons, buckles, 4 marbles, an old bottle that was unbroke by the plow, a real surprise. Even got a creepy glass doll head....lol. I spent quite a few hours on these two sites and literally dug EVERYTHING above iron. I got a huge scrap pile of brass, copper, and lead, but it is basically free money as I will separate it into buckets and turn it into my local recycling center. I normally avaerage around $100 plus a yr on just turning in my scrap metals from the fields.
I dug a ton of nickel signals and even more high tone silver range signals, but it was just not meant to be, it was an all penny fest, no silver, no old nickels
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This is everything I dug this week hunting field sites. I went out monday about 3 hours, 3 hours friday, 5 hours saturday and about 5 hours today (Sunday) so these finds represent 16 hours in the field. Did ok on coppers this week, but not a silver was found!
Got 4 early wheats, 6 indians, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1880, 1884, 1888 Got one LC today, 1846 which gave me a cent trifecta for sunday, which was the 1867 indian, and 1919 wheat Found one nickel this week, nice shape 1896 V Found 4 Crotal bells, buckles, couple buttons, marble, and a nice arrowhead which is always a bonus find when detecting farm fields, was a fun week, lots of nice weather, I love fall!!!! Hit a field tonite I hunted last year. Was hoping I missed a few keepers, well I was right!
First keeper of the nite was a general service CW button and about 30 minutes with no keepers....no coins yet I get a nice smooth 12-12 signal and less than an inch deep out popped the KING of the V nickels!! 1885....woohoo!! Also got a toasted 1880 Indian and then I dug a couple lead bullets. How old are they any ideas?? Got permission last night for a couple field sites, and had today off work, so you know what I was gonna do! Found the first site and was walking into field got a nickel signal, was a piece of lead, second signal, same thing a solid nickel signal, this one however was a 1867 shield nickel....sweet way to start the day! After that I dug every nickel signal, and they were ALL lead, bummer! I found a cool butt plate from a muzzle loader, gave a screaming signal, was hoping for silver, but I will take a cool relic anytime! Got the half cent token and thought it was a LC, it is toast, but still cool to find. The indian was great shape too, 1881.
I included my junk pile to show you everything I dug, I dig every solid signal above iron in the field. Broken bells, scraps of brass, copper, shotgun shells, and lots of lead! On the way to the car, I got a nice 12-41 signal, looked down and saw a green disk peeking out of the bean stubble, bent over and just picked it up.........awesome shape 1864 2 center!!! It would be mint if it wasn't for those irritating verdigris bumps! So 1867 shield nickel, 1864 two center, 1881 indian, and a toasted NO date HALF penny token, for a total of 8 1/2 cents! I'd say it was a successful day OFF WORK.....lol |
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