SouthJerseyJim
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- Jan 8, 2009
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- T2 LTD 13" Detech
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
I don't even know where to start. The last 3 days out have been some of my best detecting days of my 10+ years of detecting 
. It all started out with my mom and I securing permission on a huge 400 acre farm in my area. First off this farmer was one of the nicest and easiest to deal with ever. He told us to call him in 2 weeks because he was going to harvest the soybeans in a field where he knocked 2 old houses down and filled them over 
. In 2 weeks we were back and he showed us roughly where the houses were. Immediately started seeing old pottery,glass, etc. The sand was super dry and sugary. All of this were ingrediants for a colonial storm of finds. We start out low at the exact house site and pulled some indians and wheaties, but mostly trash. Ventured further behind where the house was and started finding buttons. OLD buttons. Mom kept shouting "Button!" "Buckle!" and it was just mayhem from there. Button after button. Tombacs with designs, puffy buttons, ball buttons galore, just buttons everywhere. I was lucky enough to find the first coin. Nice soft tone at about 5 inches. A Beautiful green disc emerged about the size of a quarter. 1800 Half Cent! A first for me and in beautiful condition. Already on cloud nine an houre or so goes by and Im close to mom and get a nice soft repeatable zinc signal. "Hey mom come over and scan this, sounds like a coin" Well dug down and flipped out the plug and saw the green beauty looking at me. It was a large cent, I rubbed the dirt away from the front and saw a beautiful site a beautiful female with a Large ribbon in here hair. Freaking out I saw the date 1794! wow. Words can't describe finding this. Happy dances all around. Then moms scores. 1786 NJ copper! Then she scores again an unknown possbily british coin. Needless to say the sun was going down and we had to eat and drink something, somehow we forgot all day 
Day 2 was similiar more buttons, a smooth looking state coin possibly vermont or connect. and about 15 more buttons. Day 3 slowed even more with 12 buttons 1 copper unkown and an indian or 2. We had officially dug every square inch of that field. So much more story to tell but heres the pics!
Coins weren't cleaned yet. Total of buttons number 80+, 18 buckles, 6 coppers,3 cufflinks,12 injuns, and too much more to list. Enjoy. I will add more pics when I meet up with my mom again to get group shots. Couldn't have asked for a hunt better than this with the person who got me hooked on this hobby at a young age, my mom.
Love ya mom.
. It all started out with my mom and I securing permission on a huge 400 acre farm in my area. First off this farmer was one of the nicest and easiest to deal with ever. He told us to call him in 2 weeks because he was going to harvest the soybeans in a field where he knocked 2 old houses down and filled them over . In 2 weeks we were back and he showed us roughly where the houses were. Immediately started seeing old pottery,glass, etc. The sand was super dry and sugary. All of this were ingrediants for a colonial storm of finds. We start out low at the exact house site and pulled some indians and wheaties, but mostly trash. Ventured further behind where the house was and started finding buttons. OLD buttons. Mom kept shouting "Button!" "Buckle!" and it was just mayhem from there. Button after button. Tombacs with designs, puffy buttons, ball buttons galore, just buttons everywhere. I was lucky enough to find the first coin. Nice soft tone at about 5 inches. A Beautiful green disc emerged about the size of a quarter. 1800 Half Cent! A first for me and in beautiful condition. Already on cloud nine an houre or so goes by and Im close to mom and get a nice soft repeatable zinc signal. "Hey mom come over and scan this, sounds like a coin" Well dug down and flipped out the plug and saw the green beauty looking at me. It was a large cent, I rubbed the dirt away from the front and saw a beautiful site a beautiful female with a Large ribbon in here hair. Freaking out I saw the date 1794! wow. Words can't describe finding this. Happy dances all around. Then moms scores. 1786 NJ copper! Then she scores again an unknown possbily british coin. Needless to say the sun was going down and we had to eat and drink something, somehow we forgot all day Day 2 was similiar more buttons, a smooth looking state coin possibly vermont or connect. and about 15 more buttons. Day 3 slowed even more with 12 buttons 1 copper unkown and an indian or 2. We had officially dug every square inch of that field. So much more story to tell but heres the pics!Coins weren't cleaned yet. Total of buttons number 80+, 18 buckles, 6 coppers,3 cufflinks,12 injuns, and too much more to list. Enjoy. I will add more pics when I meet up with my mom again to get group shots. Couldn't have asked for a hunt better than this with the person who got me hooked on this hobby at a young age, my mom.
Love ya mom.
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