BuckleBoy and FoxHound Strike Again... This Time With Silver and Large Cents!!

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BuckleBoy and I had a chance to hit a newly found site here in Southern Indiana. To date we have pulled some pretty nice stuff out of there such as BuckleBoy's beautiful Half Dime. We went out today with the hopes to come away with just a few nice Tombac buttons or maybe a wheat. Well, let me tell you, we came away with MUCH more!! I decided that today would be a great day to test out my new XLT and he wanted to become more familar with his Tesero Silver uMax. My first target was a flattened copper jacketed bullet point, nothing special. I didn't expect much at that time because we were not even on the site yet. My next target was a surprise first, a 1919 buffalo nickel! I had never found one until now. It wasn't long before BuckleBoy, like usual, started pulling out the Tombacs and Wheaties! He recovered 3 or 4 Tombacs and 2 wheaties, 1917 and 1924. A little later I pulled out a nice 1943 Washington Quarter and a button of my own. As the day was starting to come to a close we decided to check in the woods next to the field. I got a strong signal in a small pile of dirt and pulled out a very nice frame buckle! As we were about to head for the car BuckleBoy got a really good signal followed by a loud "Oh my God!!" which could have been heard from a mile away. I ran over to see him pull a brown colored disc from the ground and I knew he had just found a Large Cent! I congradulated him and said "Now I have to find another coin and we will tied again". I took no more than two sweeps with my coil and got a VDI # 80 and started digging. I searched the hole and it was gone so I knew it was in the plug. I broke the plug in half and saw something thick and round sticking out and said "No way!". Out popped ANOTHER Large Cent, an 1833. My 3rd oldest coin! Who would have thought that two Large Cents would be dug no more than a minute apart!! And that is how we finished out the day. BuckleBoy's Large Cent unfortunately has a hole right through the date. It is the braided Hair type, so probably 1840s. It was the end of the greatest hunt that I have been on. All together we managed to pull out 6 coins, 6 or 7 buttons, 3 or 4 musket balls, and a very cool Boy Scout Good Luck medal along with numerous other goodies. We will definately be hitting that site pretty hard in the future. Thanks for looking and HH!
 

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BuckleBoy said:
Evolution said:
SeabeeRon said:
Great finds guys!! Please indulge a relative new guy, but what is a "Tombac"?
Large decorative button from late 1700's-early 1800's. Sometimes referred to as a dandy button.

*Actually* Tombac refers to the button's composition rather than its size or function. Tombac buttons could be any size, from cuff-button-sized to large "dandy button" sized. Tombac is an alloy of 88% copper and 12% zinc. It is brittle, and the alloy is commonly confused with pewter due to its gun-metal-grey color fresh out of the ground. Brass buttons have a green or brownish patina when dug. Here's a link to an old post of mine, where someone else asked the same question:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,113489.0.html

For those with TID or VDI numbers, tombacs frequently peg at nickel or a little lower.


THAT WAS ONE HECK OF A HUNT, BUDDY! That LC of yours is sweet, and those cell phone pics turned out much better than I thought they would. I will post some photos of my finds on this thread once they are cleaned up a bit.

-Buckleboy
Thanks for the correction BB. I learned something new today. ::) ;D
 

BuckleBoy said:
Evolution said:
SeabeeRon said:
Great finds guys!! Please indulge a relative new guy, but what is a "Tombac"?
Large decorative button from late 1700's-early 1800's. Sometimes referred to as a dandy button.

*Actually* Tombac refers to the button's composition rather than its size or function. Tombac buttons could be any size, from cuff-button-sized to large "dandy button" sized. Tombac is an alloy of 88% copper and 12% zinc. It is brittle, and the alloy is commonly confused with pewter due to its gun-metal-grey color fresh out of the ground. Brass buttons have a green or brownish patina when dug. Here's a link to an old post of mine, where someone else asked the same question:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,113489.0.html

For those with TID or VDI numbers, tombacs frequently peg at nickel or a little lower.


THAT WAS ONE HECK OF A HUNT, BUDDY! That LC of yours is sweet, and those cell phone pics turned out much better than I thought they would. I will post some photos of my finds on this thread once they are cleaned up a bit.

-Buckleboy

Yes, they read at the "N" on "Nickel" on my analog meter.

Bone Dry Detecting...Kyle the Detectorist :D
 

Thanks for the replies everyone, it was definately a very exciting day.

To answer your question DigginItUp, I cleaned the buffalo nickel using vinegar and salt. You leave it in there until it turnes a dark grey, almost black, color and then rub it with baking soda to stop the reaction of the vinegar and salt. Then you just rinse it with water.

HH!

Fox
 

Re: BuckleBoy and FoxHound Strike Again... This Time With Silver and Large Cents

Very nice hunt, and some awesome finds, Congrats!!!
I remember finding a 1919 Buffalo nickel as a kid, although it was only 49 years old back then, in my small child mind it might as well have been a million... ;D
Continued Good luck, & Happy hunting~
 

Excellent work on that nickel, Foxhound!  I've gotta try it with a few I've dug throughout the years.  I think that may be the answer to cleaning cruddy nickels.  Special thanks to Captn_SE for the heads up on that trick! 

Here are better photos of my large cent, uncleaned:

Large Cent Uncleaned Front.jpg

Large Cent Uncleaned Back.jpg

I cleaned the two buttons from this hunt--thinking they were both Tombacs, but one appears to actually be pewter, and it has a checkerboard design on the face:

Pewter Back.jpg

Pewter Front.jpg

I have some better photos from Wednesday's hunt (Seated Half Dime!  :o ) that I've updated that thread with.  Here's the link:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,121901.0.html


Regards,


Buckleboy
 

Fantastic job Guys!!!
It doesn't get any better than that.
Unbelievable! :o
-MM-
 

So that's how you clean nickels, Thanks guys, I got a lot of nickels to start cleaning!
 

DigginItUp said:
But my button isn't brittle like you guys are saying, quite strong with shank intact.

By "brittle" I don't mean that they aren't sturdy or strong... what I mean is that they break rather than bend. If you find one that was hit by a plow, it'll have chunks missing from it, or it might be broken in half all together.

Hey Zoyboy--"N" on "Nickel" isn't as good as "P" on "Penny" ;D

-Buckleboy
 

Man you boys did GREAT today!! Buttons, buckles, coppers, lead....not much more needed for a great day! It always seems that those BEST finds are found on the way BACK towards the car ;) Wonderful Job fellas!
 

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