BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
I am not going to post my usual long and exciting story because I am exhausted and there isn't much to tell. Shanegalang and I got out in the cane fields today trying to track down a new site. We rough gridded a vast area today, jumping from cane row to cane row laterally (6 feet from row to row) and walking miles down some rows detecting and looking for brick and pottery.
We were getting skunked, and it was a sticky, humid day with the temperatures close to 80. By close to dark, we'd only found a couple of marbles, handfulls of can slaw, and a couple pieces of farm junk and random brass.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
I had hoped that on such days, the farmer-dropped coins would tide us over, as well as the chance at a plantation token or two.
Not so today.
So I said "Let's detect our way to the truck and call it a day." So we started down a mile long cane row back to the truck. Well, I got a decent, but deep signal on the 1266-X. It was very faint, and soft at the edges (1266 users will understand). If there had been other, stronger signals in that cane row, this one might not have gotten dug, I'm sad to say. If we hadn't already resolved to quit and be skunked, I might not have dug it. But I was in the mood where I figured "What the Hell..."
(When I'm fresh, I'm not like that--but I was NOT in a good mood by that point in the day.
)
So I dug.
I took out a big scoop of about 8-10 inches of dirt from the side of a cane row. When I rescanned, the signal was sharp and crisp. "This might be something after all" I thought. (Expecting more can slaw)
Then I grabbed a handfull of dirt, and when I did, a small silver disc dropped to the ground.
"I've got another SPANISH!" I yelled.
When I got it in my hand, I realized that it was too small to be a Spanish silver, and knew I had a half dime.
Back at the car, I squirted some water on the coin to reveal the date: An 1839-O Seated Half Dime. I am happy with this coin (I'm happy with any early Seated coin!). This is my oldest Seated coin. I have several 1840 Seateds, but nothing earlier of the Seated variety. So, super pleased about this one which saved the day from total loss.
Here are today's finds. Only one keeper that was metal (the coin). Not even any flat buttons. A marble (modern), and a porcelain underwear button.
Here is the front and back of the coin. The plow monster is brutal in these fields, since they are plowed so deeply and so often. Every silver coin I have dug but one has had some sort of plow damage. Still a decent looking coin though.
Best Wishes,
Buckles
I am not going to post my usual long and exciting story because I am exhausted and there isn't much to tell. Shanegalang and I got out in the cane fields today trying to track down a new site. We rough gridded a vast area today, jumping from cane row to cane row laterally (6 feet from row to row) and walking miles down some rows detecting and looking for brick and pottery.
We were getting skunked, and it was a sticky, humid day with the temperatures close to 80. By close to dark, we'd only found a couple of marbles, handfulls of can slaw, and a couple pieces of farm junk and random brass.
I had hoped that on such days, the farmer-dropped coins would tide us over, as well as the chance at a plantation token or two. Not so today.
So I said "Let's detect our way to the truck and call it a day." So we started down a mile long cane row back to the truck. Well, I got a decent, but deep signal on the 1266-X. It was very faint, and soft at the edges (1266 users will understand). If there had been other, stronger signals in that cane row, this one might not have gotten dug, I'm sad to say. If we hadn't already resolved to quit and be skunked, I might not have dug it. But I was in the mood where I figured "What the Hell..."
(When I'm fresh, I'm not like that--but I was NOT in a good mood by that point in the day.
)So I dug.
I took out a big scoop of about 8-10 inches of dirt from the side of a cane row. When I rescanned, the signal was sharp and crisp. "This might be something after all" I thought. (Expecting more can slaw)
Then I grabbed a handfull of dirt, and when I did, a small silver disc dropped to the ground.
"I've got another SPANISH!" I yelled.
When I got it in my hand, I realized that it was too small to be a Spanish silver, and knew I had a half dime.
Back at the car, I squirted some water on the coin to reveal the date: An 1839-O Seated Half Dime. I am happy with this coin (I'm happy with any early Seated coin!). This is my oldest Seated coin. I have several 1840 Seateds, but nothing earlier of the Seated variety. So, super pleased about this one which saved the day from total loss.
Here are today's finds. Only one keeper that was metal (the coin). Not even any flat buttons.
A marble (modern), and a porcelain underwear button.Here is the front and back of the coin. The plow monster is brutal in these fields, since they are plowed so deeply and so often. Every silver coin I have dug but one has had some sort of plow damage. Still a decent looking coin though.
Best Wishes,
Buckles
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Great save Wil. It's great to see you finally have some time to dig.
It's hard to beat a Fisher...except maybe with another Fisher. 
You know what I mean. 
