tnt-hunter
Bronze Member
- Apr 20, 2018
- 1,867
- 9,897
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 9
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
They were calling for snow today, but being a diehard I figured I would go swingin anyway and work until the snow got too deep to push my coil through. Boy am I glad I did.
Things started off slow with a few coins and odds and end of brass and a couple of tabs. I was doing the usual cleanup mode and digging all mid and high tones and any combo with mid and high. I detected for about an hour and a half before the snow started to fall. After about an hour of snow falling I was not finding many diggable targets and the snow was around an inch and a half deep. I scrub the ground with my coil so I was pushing a lot of snow around. I decided I had had enough and headed for the truck. I was swingin the CZ haphazardly as I went hoping to pick up one or two last coins before I left. I got a weak high tone decided to dig it. I popped the plug and scanned it with the coil, no signal so it’s still in the hole. I got out the pinpointer and was getting ready to use it when I looked in the hole and saw a dark gray disk beside a rock in the hole. It looked small and sure enough it was half dime size. I was getting excited because I haven’t found a half dime since 2003. I put it on the plug and took a picture. I couldn’t see it very well because it was cloudy, dark and the snow was really pelting down. I was getting ready to put it in the padded box when I took a closer look and I really got excited IT WAS A CAPPED BUST!!! My first capped bust!!! I actually said Oh My God out load I was so excited.
I put the plug in the hole and was ready to leave but then decided I needed to recheck the hole and do a search of the area to be sure she didn’t have a sister nearby. But no sister.
She looks really great for being almost 200 years old. Most of the details are sharp and nice. Unfortunately the back has a fresh dink on the eagles wing and into the U in UNUM. It was in the middle of the hole so I don’t think I make direct contact. The only thing I can think of is that when I dug into the rocky soil I pushed the rock into the coin and caused a scratch. Why couldn’t she have been in a part of the field where the good soil goes deep instead of the rocky part? This was a civil war camp that had houses built on it after the war. Those houses were torn down to build a school in the early 1900s so the ground conditions vary because of all the earthmoving done over the years. For this coin to survive all that in great shape and then get damaged during the recovery is very upsetting.
Even with that it is still a marvelous find to me and almost a full day later I still find it hard to believe I found it here in the mountains.
So another big one off the bucket list. I know the scratch lowers the value of the coin, but I am still thrilled with the find. When I saw people posting them I thought I had a snowballs chance of finding one. I guess it just had to be snowing and for me to be pushing snow with my coil for it to happen.
Here’s what my detector looked like when the snow was about 3/4 of an inch deep. The only good thing is you can really see where you have swung the coil so you can be sure to cover every inch of ground.
In the 2.5 hours of detecting I found 29 coins with a face value of $1.46, what looks like part of a cosmetics lid, a brass pin without the pin back, the brass rim of a paper key tag, a gas valve, a button like object, 3 starter pistol blanks and the capped bust half dime.
The button like object has a fancy C on it has an old hit on the side. It does not have a shank. It has a wide stub on the back and no back markings so I am not sure exactly what it is. Ideas would be welcome.
This is part of what looks like a cosmetics lid with a Chinese style design popular in the 20s and 30s in the center. It has a lift tab at the bottom and a gap at the top that looks like where the hinge would have been. It has some remnants of rusty metal fastened to the center of the back so this may have been part of some sort of covering on a steel lid.
2 of the starter blanks are marked with an acorn and the third has a zig zag with an arrow head on the end.
So this was an average hunt that happened to be during a snow storm that turned into a fantastic one with the last hole on the way back to the truck. It seems like the great find in the last hole on the way out happens a lot. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things too. (Like mine did)
Things started off slow with a few coins and odds and end of brass and a couple of tabs. I was doing the usual cleanup mode and digging all mid and high tones and any combo with mid and high. I detected for about an hour and a half before the snow started to fall. After about an hour of snow falling I was not finding many diggable targets and the snow was around an inch and a half deep. I scrub the ground with my coil so I was pushing a lot of snow around. I decided I had had enough and headed for the truck. I was swingin the CZ haphazardly as I went hoping to pick up one or two last coins before I left. I got a weak high tone decided to dig it. I popped the plug and scanned it with the coil, no signal so it’s still in the hole. I got out the pinpointer and was getting ready to use it when I looked in the hole and saw a dark gray disk beside a rock in the hole. It looked small and sure enough it was half dime size. I was getting excited because I haven’t found a half dime since 2003. I put it on the plug and took a picture. I couldn’t see it very well because it was cloudy, dark and the snow was really pelting down. I was getting ready to put it in the padded box when I took a closer look and I really got excited IT WAS A CAPPED BUST!!! My first capped bust!!! I actually said Oh My God out load I was so excited.
I put the plug in the hole and was ready to leave but then decided I needed to recheck the hole and do a search of the area to be sure she didn’t have a sister nearby. But no sister.
She looks really great for being almost 200 years old. Most of the details are sharp and nice. Unfortunately the back has a fresh dink on the eagles wing and into the U in UNUM. It was in the middle of the hole so I don’t think I make direct contact. The only thing I can think of is that when I dug into the rocky soil I pushed the rock into the coin and caused a scratch. Why couldn’t she have been in a part of the field where the good soil goes deep instead of the rocky part? This was a civil war camp that had houses built on it after the war. Those houses were torn down to build a school in the early 1900s so the ground conditions vary because of all the earthmoving done over the years. For this coin to survive all that in great shape and then get damaged during the recovery is very upsetting.
Even with that it is still a marvelous find to me and almost a full day later I still find it hard to believe I found it here in the mountains.So another big one off the bucket list. I know the scratch lowers the value of the coin, but I am still thrilled with the find. When I saw people posting them I thought I had a snowballs chance of finding one. I guess it just had to be snowing and for me to be pushing snow with my coil for it to happen.
Here’s what my detector looked like when the snow was about 3/4 of an inch deep. The only good thing is you can really see where you have swung the coil so you can be sure to cover every inch of ground.In the 2.5 hours of detecting I found 29 coins with a face value of $1.46, what looks like part of a cosmetics lid, a brass pin without the pin back, the brass rim of a paper key tag, a gas valve, a button like object, 3 starter pistol blanks and the capped bust half dime.
The button like object has a fancy C on it has an old hit on the side. It does not have a shank. It has a wide stub on the back and no back markings so I am not sure exactly what it is. Ideas would be welcome.
This is part of what looks like a cosmetics lid with a Chinese style design popular in the 20s and 30s in the center. It has a lift tab at the bottom and a gap at the top that looks like where the hinge would have been. It has some remnants of rusty metal fastened to the center of the back so this may have been part of some sort of covering on a steel lid.
2 of the starter blanks are marked with an acorn and the third has a zig zag with an arrow head on the end.
So this was an average hunt that happened to be during a snow storm that turned into a fantastic one with the last hole on the way back to the truck. It seems like the great find in the last hole on the way out happens a lot. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things too. (Like mine did)
Upvote
53
