steelheadwill
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I don't really know where to start,
as when I found my gold Ducat, it began with a premonition, just last night,
I had mentioned to my girlfriend that some of the early Colonial coins had the slogan
'Mind Your Business' attributed to my favorite Founding Father: Benjamin Franklin.
Had a -1.36 low tide this morning, so I was in the mud at dawn, made a few nice finds and finished up at 8 am. With my work schedule, I had a couple more hours to spare, so I thought about doing some hunting elsewhere.
Without ANY hope for significant finds, I headed to an inland tidal river, & started swinging, in a few seconds, I get a shallow 36 hit, turn over some mud, & pluck out a large coin, give it a rinse, & see what I thought was a chain around the edge,
dropped my detector & shovel and head back to my truck.
A closer look reveals that it is not a chain cent.
I have a good idea what it is, as I have a full set of colonial reproductions.
What to do ? of course look for more!
Found a few more interesting items, that any other day would be posted here & now.
Today is no ordinary day.
Rubbings show good date, am storing in distilled water until I can find info on having it professionally cleaned. tips welcome! more info:
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/CC-Dollar.1.html
the top 2 pix are for comparison of course, bottom 6 are my find.
Thanks for looking, & Great Digs to You All, Herbie.
A Huge thanks to Mike, (4-H) for confirming field ID, and calming me down a bit!
as when I found my gold Ducat, it began with a premonition, just last night,
I had mentioned to my girlfriend that some of the early Colonial coins had the slogan
'Mind Your Business' attributed to my favorite Founding Father: Benjamin Franklin.
Had a -1.36 low tide this morning, so I was in the mud at dawn, made a few nice finds and finished up at 8 am. With my work schedule, I had a couple more hours to spare, so I thought about doing some hunting elsewhere.
Without ANY hope for significant finds, I headed to an inland tidal river, & started swinging, in a few seconds, I get a shallow 36 hit, turn over some mud, & pluck out a large coin, give it a rinse, & see what I thought was a chain around the edge,
dropped my detector & shovel and head back to my truck.
A closer look reveals that it is not a chain cent.
I have a good idea what it is, as I have a full set of colonial reproductions.
What to do ? of course look for more!
Found a few more interesting items, that any other day would be posted here & now.
Today is no ordinary day.
Rubbings show good date, am storing in distilled water until I can find info on having it professionally cleaned. tips welcome! more info:
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/CC-Dollar.1.html
the top 2 pix are for comparison of course, bottom 6 are my find.
Thanks for looking, & Great Digs to You All, Herbie.
A Huge thanks to Mike, (4-H) for confirming field ID, and calming me down a bit!
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