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It's nice to hit a spot with fairly recent silver coinage. They really sing and come out of the ground pretty clean. You can tell what they are before you dig. Got tired of looking at clad so I just dug the silver hits. As much as I like the recent coins, I'm a colonial thru Jacksonian era specialist. But it is interesting to see how the detector reacts to different coins and depths. Plus there have been many days when the colonial hunting has produced nothing from hours of dedicated effort.
Visited one of my old colonial sites too. It's one of those locations that are well known and must have been detected many times. This is my third KW III HP and they all look worn just like this. The ribbon at the back of the hair is the giveaway. Its the most persistent feature. Looking under my digital microscope I can spot 1700. While a coin in this condition is nearly worthless, it tells me a lot. Given that I found it on a homestead known to have been founded in 1771, it likely changed hands 3/4s to nearly a century, probably mostly a very rural setting. It's interesting to see a wear rate, and given that my region was first settled by the English in the 1640's, it reaches back to a generation or two after the founders. Sure, one cannot discount a heavily circulated coin from the UK making it over here mid-1700s. Either scenario is fascinating.
Since I live very close to what was one of the principle colonial whaling ports of the Northeastern states, I expect to find any world coinage. Not far from where I found this German coin I previously found a Russian copper from the 1830s.
I will also note that this exact spot where I found the KWIII HP and German coin (they were 3 ft. apart, roughly same strata), I have passed my Whites Spectra, Nox 800 & 900, several times over the past 4 to 5 years. The Manticore sniffed them out first pass. I'm very happy with the performance and overall build of the Manticore. I've dug many targets with it and know how it reacts.
Visited one of my old colonial sites too. It's one of those locations that are well known and must have been detected many times. This is my third KW III HP and they all look worn just like this. The ribbon at the back of the hair is the giveaway. Its the most persistent feature. Looking under my digital microscope I can spot 1700. While a coin in this condition is nearly worthless, it tells me a lot. Given that I found it on a homestead known to have been founded in 1771, it likely changed hands 3/4s to nearly a century, probably mostly a very rural setting. It's interesting to see a wear rate, and given that my region was first settled by the English in the 1640's, it reaches back to a generation or two after the founders. Sure, one cannot discount a heavily circulated coin from the UK making it over here mid-1700s. Either scenario is fascinating.
Since I live very close to what was one of the principle colonial whaling ports of the Northeastern states, I expect to find any world coinage. Not far from where I found this German coin I previously found a Russian copper from the 1830s.
I will also note that this exact spot where I found the KWIII HP and German coin (they were 3 ft. apart, roughly same strata), I have passed my Whites Spectra, Nox 800 & 900, several times over the past 4 to 5 years. The Manticore sniffed them out first pass. I'm very happy with the performance and overall build of the Manticore. I've dug many targets with it and know how it reacts.
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