3 coin day in the woods! Yay for Spanish silver!

[adventureswithjim]

Spent yesterday off exploring other home sites of colonial age...went one for one. First site so loaded with iron all I managed were a couple of old furniture tacks...but the second site...gave up some goodies!

Yes, another 1 reale coin, 1786, a little more worn than the last one, but just so cool to finally have places to dig these. Also pulled dateless George II half penny and a chinese cash coin.

People keep saying to me "wow you're lucky." But this site isn't about luck, it's about hard work battling against the iron and jungle...the reason so many coins left behind is because the previous hunters gave up too soon. And this place been hit many times before, all the old local guys I've talked too say the same thing "yeah we used to hunt that, but too much iron to work it."

Oh yeah, and wrecker58 came down for a visit...I made him do the intro to the video. Ahahahahaha, he's a good sport.

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[relic lover]

That's awesome The only thing sweeter than a great find is knowing you succeeded where others failed

 

[testing123]

nice half real! You're really ripping it up on the old silver lately!

Is that a keg in the back of the car? Must've been a good day all the way around

 

[adventureswithjim]

That's awesome You need a smaller DD coil if you don't already have one. The only thing sweeter than a great find is knowing you succeeded where others failed

Smaller? ahahahahahha...hard enough to get my mind around using 5" DD in the woods...KNOWING I'm missing tons of deep stuff. But any time me and or any of my hunt buds have tried to use a normal sized coil it leads to a bad day cause the iron is just overwhelming. So it's either pull just the goodies in the top 1/3 or so of the ground or miss just about everything trying to go deep.

I'm gonna stick with the 5" awhile

 

[gwdigger]

Youre kicking some butt out there and yes, it is, sometimes hard work!

 

[s.c.shooter]

Good job JIm.

 

[s.c.shooter]

Good job Jim!

 

[Whitebeard]

Pretty nice coins! I believe hard work can be turned into real pleasure when you love what you're doing and results are there to prove it, congrats.

 

[James from TN]

Those are great sites you are hunting. Love the Spanish silver coin. Hate to see what happened to your machine while hunting. A little hard to hunt with a broke stem. We have had that happen before and fixing a makeshift brace didn't work very well for us.

 

[Sniffy]

you crack me up...nice digs wild man.

 

[Wrecker58]

That's awesome You need a smaller DD coil if you don't already have one. The only thing sweeter than a great find is knowing you succeeded where others failed

Smaller? ahahahahahha...hard enough to get my mind around using 5" DD in the woods...KNOWING I'm missing tons of deep stuff. But any time me and or any of my hunt buds have tried to use a normal sized coil it leads to a bad day cause the iron is just overwhelming. So it's either pull just the goodies in the top 1/3 or so of the ground or miss just about everything trying to go deep.

I'm gonna stick with the 5" awhile

BAD doesnt fully explain it lmao.....

 

[The Patriot]

Great spanish...in the time frame I like to find those old military items too... I don't mind the iron at all and just ask IP who spends most of his time there...

 

[Mr Tuff]

killer silver AGAIN!!!!! MR TUFF