Beautiful 273-Year-Old SILVER and a Wardrobe Malfunction!

[BuckleBoy]

273-Year-Old SILVER and a Wardrobe Malfunction!

Hello All,

Got out diggin today with Shanegalang and we hit a couple fields and came up with some nice finds. Early in the morning we got out in the half-light and realized that it was dry, dry, Dry in the rows. We had a heck of a time getting finds out of clods, and even isolating the clod that the find was in, to get the target turned horizontal so that the signal wasn't lost. Jeesh!

At any rate, the first thing I found was a wardrobe malfunction. That's all I'll say here about that, but the whole story is in the video below:



I got a couple little keepers--nothing big--and then got that fantastic 61 or 62 signal on the F-75, locking in. Sometimes these are the bottom ends of cans, or heavy-duty aluminum, the kind that sliding storm window frames are made of... So, of course I didn't film it coming up. When I saw the target, I could see the silver edge, and let the camera roll. Here's a photo of what I saw!



A 1740 half real! This ties for my oldest coin dug, and is by far the nicer of the two. COLONIAL LOUISIANA, Y'ALL!

I picked up some other nice finds, including a probable musket decoration, a minieball, many musketballs, a nice TOMBAC four-hole button, and a brass oval with a French patent on it:





("BREVETE sans garantie du gouvernement")

Then a strange, low reading got me my first counterfeit Seated coin--or at least half of one! 1891, if my eyes are seeing right. At first I thought this was a cut spanish!



Last but not least, a very cool silver gilded button with initials scratched in. HS or SH. Has anyone else ever recovered a button engraved similarly to this one?



A group photo of all my finds:



And my Crackerjack 1740 Half Real:




Best Wishes,

Buckleboy

 

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[Bill D. (VA)]

Wayda sniff out another early silver BB. Great detail on that coin, and I like the fact that it's holed. Sorry about the pants, but I'm sure you can patch those right up.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Wayda sniff out another early silver BB. Great detail on that coin, and I like the fact that it's holed. Sorry about the pants, but I'm sure you can patch those right up.

Thanks for your reply, Bill! Yeah, many of the Carolus silvers we find are well-worn, so it's a treat to find a Philip that has a lot of detail. I couldn't be more pleased--unless it was a 1739!

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

awesome 1/2 reale! i had a similiar malfunction with a old pair of jeans.squatted down to dig a taget i hear RIIIIP! backside of my pants split right open.great video guys! and a new way to clean a coin huh? yummy!

 

[VOL1266-X]

Ha Ha He He!! I always refer to you as BB on Tnet -now that stands for busted britches-LOL. Great finds. Like the 1740. It has good detail compared to some of the others from that field. I know why Shane carries extra pants too-LOL. Much more to come from that field as well. HH, Q.

 

[John Boy]

Great video. That 1740 half real is awesome. Boy that is some dry ground out there.Also dont know about there but around here fertilizer is so high everyone uses chicken litter for fertilizer, kinda make ya think before popping it in ya mouth to clean it off.Lol...sweet finds buddy.keep up the great work.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Awesome saves!

By the by, does the hole in the coin mean it was part of some jewelry? Or was that some method used to keep one's money together back then?

HH!

 

[BuckleBoy]

awesome 1/2 reale! i had a similiar malfunction with a old pair of jeans.squatted down to dig a taget i hear RIIIIP! backside of my pants split right open.great video guys! and a new way to clean a coin huh? yummy!

My GF said that she'd never kiss me again after seeing that video. I told her, "don't worry." "I wouldn't do that with a good coin, or any piece of brass...just a silver coin that was broken, bent, or damaged beyond all value, and I'd only do it if I was far away from the car, and had no water to rinse it in." Didn't make her feel much better. LOL.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Ha Ha He He!! I always refer to you as BB on Tnet -now that stands for busted britches-LOL. Great finds. Like the 1740. It has good detail compared to some of the others from that field. I know why Shane carries extra pants too-LOL. Much more to come from that field as well. HH, Q.

We have enough mishaps and we'll just have to buy double of everything. We'll need a Metal Detecting Mobile Home to store it all in! Busted Britches. I like that. Better name than BuckleBoy. I've found more ripped pants legs than buckles in the past couple years!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great video. That 1740 half real is awesome. Boy that is some dry ground out there.Also dont know about there but around here fertilizer is so high everyone uses chicken litter for fertilizer, kinda make ya think before popping it in ya mouth to clean it off.Lol...sweet finds buddy.keep up the great work.

Uggggh. Didn't think about that. Well...never am I gonna do that again. The thing was so tiny I did consider what would happen if I choked on it.

It's usually a mud pit, and it'll be a mud pit AND 100 degrees all summer anywhere we hunt, so I guess that dry is ok. This was the driest I've seen it since I started digging down here.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Awesome saves!

By the by, does the hole in the coin mean it was part of some jewelry? Or was that some method used to keep one's money together back then?

HH!

Coins were kept on a wire to keep them from being lost. Obviously didn't work in this case, but a wire was better than keeping them in a leather money pouch, since pockets didn't exist in clothing until around the mid-1800s.

 

[tigerbeetle]

Wonderful presentation. Thank-you. By the by, along with coins being wired together for safety, they were very often worn as both a tribute to nation of origin and even year of birth -- mainly by poorer folks. There are numerous historic mentions of this practice -- which carried over to the U.S., where coins and tokens were often neck-worn in remembrance of famous people. One case well-known to detectorists is President Harrison, whose token is almost always drilled. More videos, please.

 

[joeyfresh]

Awesome 1740 1/2 real BB!!

I've found a couple of silver plated buttons with crude etchings on them before. I think bill d just found one a few weeks ago. I am also curious why you think that seated is counterfeit. I could understand counterfeiting copper coins but not silver unless it was milled from less pure silver. I would like your input on that. Thanks for the video, they're fun to watch!

 

[Chug And Red]

Might want to think about taking a Small Sealed container with water with you from Now On!!! Chug Yes i would have Done the Same thing Chug

 

[fishstick]

AWESOME HUNT BB!!!!! I luv that silver... I'm ready for you to bring some of that SOUTHERN LUCK up here to IND bud.... lol. CONGRATS.. HH

 

[asmerri]

Hey Buck,

Do you have a secret detector that only finds awesome stuff or do you actually dig clad as well? If so you have to tell me where to purchase one of these detectors

 

[BuckleBoy]

Wonderful presentation. Thank-you. By the by, along with coins being wired together for safety, they were very often worn as both a tribute to nation of origin and even year of birth -- mainly by poorer folks. There are numerous historic mentions of this practice -- which carried over to the U.S., where coins and tokens were often neck-worn in remembrance of famous people. One case well-known to detectorists is President Harrison, whose token is almost always drilled. More videos, please.

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, Tigerbeetle! I absolutely agree with what you are saying about carrying tokens and coins. Well said.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Awesome 1740 1/2 real BB!!

I've found a couple of silver plated buttons with crude etchings on them before. I think bill d just found one a few weeks ago. I am also curious why you think that seated is counterfeit. I could understand counterfeiting copper coins but not silver unless it was milled from less pure silver. I would like your input on that. Thanks for the video, they're fun to watch!

Several reasons I am almost positive the Seated is counterfeit. First is that even thin half reales bend when struck by a plow. Pewter buttons and tombacs break. So I would think that a silver dime would bend, being twice as thick as a half real. Second reason is that it rang up really low on my F-75. Third is that the detail is poor and the surface bubbly. Each one of those would not be a deal-breaker on it being genuine by themselves, but as a whole I think that's probably what it is.

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Glad y'all are liking the vids.

Cheers,


Buck

 

[johnnyblaze]

Sweet find Buck

You are one magnet that silver sticks to..


Blaze

 

[BuckleBoy]

Hey Buck,

Do you have a secret detector that only finds awesome stuff or do you actually dig clad as well? If so you have to tell me where to purchase one of these detectors

Nope. Normal detector. I think I've dug maybe two or three clad coins in the past two years. But...then again, we aren't hunting no tot lot.

We do all our hunting in areas where the only thing that's gone on there was 200 years ago. Precisely because we don't have any desire to spend all day fishing through all that aluminum crap, clad change, tin foil, and trash to hope to find a mercury dime. But clad is everywhere, and once in a great while we are lucky enough to dig a modern zinc cent or clad dime.

-Buck