Tom_in_CA
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- Mar 23, 2007
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1850 Moffat private mint $5 gold found.
I know I can't get banner for this, since it's not my personal find.
Today a few buddies and I went and tried a worked out hammered "back-pocket" site of mine Central coast of CA. This spot had been a traveler stopping spot, where perhaps an adobe habitations of some sort existed in the Mexican period of CA (1840s). 10 or 12 Years ago when I first researched out this site, I had found some early seateds, a few reales, a few cache coins, some gilt buttons, an indian "tinkler", and Republic of Mexico buttons. And the other usual age indicators: pistol balls, lantern parts, gun parts, rivots, rimfires, etc... The site never particularly had many targets to begin with. And it eventually got the point where I would work for an hour just to get any more conductive targets of *any* sort from there. So I rarely ever go there anymore.
Today though, two buddies and I had a few hours to kill between hunt destinations. So for lack of anything better to do, we decided we'd go knock ourselves silly and see if any more targets could be eaked out of this place. My guest Jim Searcy from Fresno, started working a periphery zone (fairly far outside the habitation/iron zone). His first conductive target/signals was a crisp clear "40" signal on his MXT (with eliptical coil). Down about 3 to 4", he pulls up this nice 1850 P $5 gold. His first gold coin. Here it is, fresh out of the ground, a few hours ago. I'm trying to convince him to clean it with sandpaper, but .... for some reason .... he's not listening to me! haha
We worked for another hour or so, and the only other age indicators we had to show for ourselves, was 2 pistol balls, and a few rivots.
Anyhow, he deserves his 2 minutes of fame, for his md'rs "hole in one" holy-grail of finds! Congratz Jim!
I know I can't get banner for this, since it's not my personal find.
Today a few buddies and I went and tried a worked out hammered "back-pocket" site of mine Central coast of CA. This spot had been a traveler stopping spot, where perhaps an adobe habitations of some sort existed in the Mexican period of CA (1840s). 10 or 12 Years ago when I first researched out this site, I had found some early seateds, a few reales, a few cache coins, some gilt buttons, an indian "tinkler", and Republic of Mexico buttons. And the other usual age indicators: pistol balls, lantern parts, gun parts, rivots, rimfires, etc... The site never particularly had many targets to begin with. And it eventually got the point where I would work for an hour just to get any more conductive targets of *any* sort from there. So I rarely ever go there anymore.
Today though, two buddies and I had a few hours to kill between hunt destinations. So for lack of anything better to do, we decided we'd go knock ourselves silly and see if any more targets could be eaked out of this place. My guest Jim Searcy from Fresno, started working a periphery zone (fairly far outside the habitation/iron zone). His first conductive target/signals was a crisp clear "40" signal on his MXT (with eliptical coil). Down about 3 to 4", he pulls up this nice 1850 P $5 gold. His first gold coin. Here it is, fresh out of the ground, a few hours ago. I'm trying to convince him to clean it with sandpaper, but .... for some reason .... he's not listening to me! haha
We worked for another hour or so, and the only other age indicators we had to show for ourselves, was 2 pistol balls, and a few rivots.
Anyhow, he deserves his 2 minutes of fame, for his md'rs "hole in one" holy-grail of finds! Congratz Jim!
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