CS tongue, block A button and a 1773 Virginia half penny.

[Deno]

My buddy Armstrong was cheating on me and the other Jim this last weekend.

No wonder he doesn't like hunting in Kentucky.

While me and Hill Billy were wondering from field to field here in the Bluegrass

without much success this dog was digging up CS stuff in Virginia.

Armstrong dug the block A button and a Seated dime not shown.

His buddy Warren dug the CS tongue and the 1773 Virginia half penny.

 

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[Sniffy]

That is just plain awesome!

 

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[Deno]

Well Deno, you forgot to mention that Warren and I were both hunting with a Nautilus DMC II Ba detector. The block A was dug from about 10" of nice sandy Virginia soil. I hate to admit this, but Warren found the CS tongue about 18" from a hole that I had dug earlier in the day. It made feel a little sick, but I am glad he found the plate, it is his first CS plate. I was hunting with my small 6" search coil and I think if I had my 10" search coil on that I would have got a signal on the CS plate. Oh well I am happy with the block A button, and it made my drive to Virginia worth every penny of the gas it cost to drive there this week. We looked all over for the wreath part of the plate, but no luck.

You have made a believer out of me on the depth on that thing. There is a guy on another site
that writes books on civil war relic hunting with the Nautilus. There's a picture in one of his books
where he is sitting on the side of a hole he dug some relics out of swinging his legs.

 

[steelheadwill]

Super Digs!
Great CW relics and state Copper
Congrats

 

[ModernMiner]

Outstanding finds.
Congrats,
MM

 

[blackfoot1]

Very Very nice finds !!!!!!

 

[cgull]

Great digs!! I'm waiting for my first to surface