First Time Out 2007 / Need Help

[LJ]

I went out this morning to a park near an old CW battle site. Found nothing special.....clad, odds & ins. I did find this round ball looking thing that I thought might be a round from the battle. Can anyone idetify this for me? Anyway, I had a good time out there digging.

Also, how do you get these coins shiny again? Is it possible?

LeJeuene

 

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[moonshine]

nice pile of finds there!

 

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[stoney56]

Looks like a good day to me. 8)! Roughly $4 in clad, a musketball, a few locks, etc.
I also see some jewelry-maybe a couple of earrings. Any markings?

I've done the vending machine thing too.....shhhhhhhhhh

Moon

Done the same thing as well as the Coinstar method.

 

[romeo-1]

Congrats on the musketball...I still love to find them!

 

[LJ]

Stoney - As for the rings, one looks like a toe ring to me. The other one looks like it was purchased in a gumball machine.....lol.

I appreciate all of the advice for the coin cleaning. I will try this.

LeJeuene

 

[goldencoin]

looks like a musket ball

HH
-GC

 

[Southcacalaky]

A lot of methods for cleaning clad. I do prefer to rock tumble them just clean enough for the bank to take. I always tell them I had dug all of them. It has given me a few leads. Great Job, HH Art...

 

[UnknownBounty]

Haha, yes, i remember the feeling of finding my first "oldest find" which was also a musket ball, "bite bullet", which wasn't that long ago. It won't be long now before you start finding some even older stuff, and even more musket balls! Best of luck lejeuene. Happy trails. Oh i almost forgot, one way i "identify" musket balls, is it seems each i've found is "very dense" it feels like it is 2 or 3 times the weight that it appears it would be.

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[free4dan]

The ball appears to have bite marks on it. Even better find if so. Bite marks on musket balls could indicate, and did often, that the owner was in field surgery at the time. Used to bite down on for the pain.

 

[LJ]

The ball appears to have bite marks on it. Even better find if so. Bite marks on musket balls could indicate, and did often, that the owner was in field surgery at the time. Used to bite down on for the pain.

What do you see that makes you say it appears to have these "bites marks"? Maybe my eyes aren't trained for this. Wow....that would be terrible.

LeJeuene

 

[TheSleeper]

Nice hunt lejeuene. Gratssssss

 

[kindafoundabuckle]

Looks like it could have teeth marks on it. I got one a few years ago. Ouch!!!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Thats alot of digging and some great finds. What were the rings you found?

 

[cajunmiss]

GREAT FINDS LJ

Congrats!

CM

 

[jeric2]

I use diamondjim's technique for cleaning coins of no significant value, with the exception of one thing. I put a squirt or two of lemon juice in there, let it sit for just a few minutes in the water/lemon juice/hand soap mix, then take the coins out and use a medium tooth brush to clean them off. Works pretty well. If you find it's not working well, use more lemon juice. Hope this helps.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Good you got out and found some clad! I use a rock tumbler to clean clad coins, paid around $60.00 for it, has more than paid for itself. I would say that is a large caliber musket ball, I have found a few hundred here in Germany. HH, Mike

 

[LJ]

Thats alot of digging and some great finds. What were the rings you found?

One is a toe ring I think. The other came out of a gumball machine. It excited me just the same....ha.

 

[Tourezrick]

Yep, looks like bite marks - the two indentations on the ball. Could be from an injury, also, the old timers would put a ball in their mouths if they were short of water, to make the saliva flow. The only concept of lead poisoning back then was the kind you got from being shot. Nice finds!

Tourezrick

 

[doyboy]

I wrap my clad coins up without cleaning them . I only found about $5 clad this year --- I mainly hunt pre-1891 sites. HH, Lejene!

 

[TimmyNY]

could you post a larger pic of the locks please some locks cand be worth quite a bit.

Tim

 

[Nana40]

Way to go LJ~! 8)

Nana