matt092079
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- Nov 21, 2011
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- Fisher F75 with 11" DD coil, Garrett Ace 250 with 9x12 coil, Garrett Pro-Pinpointer
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1857 Seated Half Dime, 9 flat buttons(including one that's engraved) and CW lead.
Hey guys. I have a few finds collected from this past week. Thursday I did a short hunt after work and ended up finding a flat button, but not just any flat button. This one appears to be heavily plated silver with the engraving "1W" on the front. Well, as far as I know it's an engraved piece. I didn't know, nor could I find any info on flat buttons with the "1W" on the front. What's everyone's thoughts?
Today my cousin and I had a bunch of time to detect. We detected from about lunch time until about 7:30pm. Right off the bat I land this nice button with a really nice star/sunburst design on it. It was slim pickin's after that...it was about 2:30 and I was ready to wrap it up and go home. lol But, I stuck with it and forged on. This property is huge so I decided to go to a spot where we haven't been much. First good find was this flag that appeared to be a pin or something. It has 13 stars. Can anybody shed any light on this piece? After that I found two piece of a carved round ball...never found the other piece. That really set a fire under my butt...I felt I was on to something good. Well I hit another good signal and it's a tiny flat button, then a nice pistol bullet(not sure the make). I continue to work this area, most of the find at this point are in a straight line. I get turned around(chased away, basically) by a mamma cow that's grazing and I continue on my path and dig a LOW vdi signal of only 45-55. Thought for sure this was gonna be a small button or shotgun shell, but to my surprise it was a 1857 seated HALF DIME! My first half dime!
It was getting late at this point, so I went back to the truck and worked the front field a little more and found 2 more flat buttons and made a friend. Little calf came up to me while I was diggin' a hole. lol Thanks for looking and reading guys! Happy hunting!
Video of several hunts:
Hey guys. I have a few finds collected from this past week. Thursday I did a short hunt after work and ended up finding a flat button, but not just any flat button. This one appears to be heavily plated silver with the engraving "1W" on the front. Well, as far as I know it's an engraved piece. I didn't know, nor could I find any info on flat buttons with the "1W" on the front. What's everyone's thoughts?
Today my cousin and I had a bunch of time to detect. We detected from about lunch time until about 7:30pm. Right off the bat I land this nice button with a really nice star/sunburst design on it. It was slim pickin's after that...it was about 2:30 and I was ready to wrap it up and go home. lol But, I stuck with it and forged on. This property is huge so I decided to go to a spot where we haven't been much. First good find was this flag that appeared to be a pin or something. It has 13 stars. Can anybody shed any light on this piece? After that I found two piece of a carved round ball...never found the other piece. That really set a fire under my butt...I felt I was on to something good. Well I hit another good signal and it's a tiny flat button, then a nice pistol bullet(not sure the make). I continue to work this area, most of the find at this point are in a straight line. I get turned around(chased away, basically) by a mamma cow that's grazing and I continue on my path and dig a LOW vdi signal of only 45-55. Thought for sure this was gonna be a small button or shotgun shell, but to my surprise it was a 1857 seated HALF DIME! My first half dime!
It was getting late at this point, so I went back to the truck and worked the front field a little more and found 2 more flat buttons and made a friend. Little calf came up to me while I was diggin' a hole. lol Thanks for looking and reading guys! Happy hunting!
Video of several hunts:
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