Benjamin52
Sr. Member
- Apr 26, 2011
- 436
- 695
- Detector(s) used
- XP DEUS :-:
Minelab CTX 3030
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hey everyone!
Here`s the story:
Today I was out with my new Vaquero that finally arrived 2 weeks ago here at a local park in Taichung, Taiwan.
It was about 5pm and sun sets at 6, so I wanted to chill out detecting for an hour or two before going back to studying for an exam tomorrow.
Luckily I brought my strap-on headlight, because I was going to be in for the big show....
Started out detecting a park I had never been to before, after 2 minutes a horde of 3 little children come jumping along, among them a hyperactive 8-year old or so that was able to speak English so I had no excuse for ignoring him as he asked me about what I was doing, if he could also hold the detector, dig the hole, etc... I like children but he was just being a pain in the a** because I constantly had to reach out to protect my detector from him jumping on my search coil or worse..
We dug up some trash after 10 minutes of interrupted digging and other children came by, I was about to give up and go home when luckily the mother came and took him away.
Great, sun was almost down and I was very annoyed, only 3 holes dug and all garbage, park seemed like a dump anyways, things worsened when I dug up some irrigation system lids and an old lady came by and told me these lids were all over the park, I should`t destroy them...bla bla
Knowing the park was basically a very bad location due to irrigation system lids and garbage + sun was away now, I decided it was not my day and wanted to go home.
I was detecting my way back to by bike and finally got a decent hit as an old man came by with 2 small children and stood next to me watching me dig.
After I dug up the pull-tab (*sob*) I thought, OK, I lost anyways here so I can just as well be friendly and greeted the old man.
He asked about the detector and I explained in my mediocre Chinese.
Then he suddenly said: "You know what, why don`t you try and go over to that corner of the park, I remember there used to be a little temple with an where people used to buy little offerings a long time ago, maybe you can find some big old coins.."
I laughed to myself and thought, okay, lets play the game, nothing to loose anyways and at least it was a lead.
Long story short: We arrived at the park corner, the man told me where the temple or shrine had been and told me to search in a small area about 5x3 meters big.
20 seconds later, crystal clear hit, huge, ancient-looking Chinese coin popped out right under the grass. Wow, now sh*t is getting real i thought and went on, sure enough every 2 or three swings, same story, 5 minutes later I had found nothing less than 7 huge old coins.
Unluckily other people saw what was happening and came by to look, I made the mistake to lend a coin to one lady and another old man who said please, please let me keep it I remember these when I was small.. I said "okay okay" that was a big mistake maybe, suddenly everyone wanted a coin and I just could not say: "No, I am raiding your fancy little old temple site and you guys are not part of the fun" So i ended up giving away 5 coins to people standing around and 2 coins to the man who had helped me find the site, leaving me with 2 coins (I had found 9 by then)
I then said I had to go home and everyone started leaving. I pretended to ready up my detector for leaving and waited a while.
After 10 minutes everybody was gone and I took the detector back out and put on my head-mounted light.
Very unfortunately I got some very bad interference on my vaquero, threshold wouldn`t keep steady, always humming and chopping, tried to change all settings, no use at all but I knew it was now or never, tried to tweak it as good as was possible and went to it.
I dug up 9 more of the huge coins until the area was clear of signals, I left some iffy ones to be dug up next visit (As I definately plan on going back)
And went for the clear ones.
Very satisfied I rode home and cleaned the coins.
If anybody can help me with some ID`s I would appreciate it a lot.
I am sure one is silver, they are all very heavy, very dirty and appear to be made of at least 2 different materials.
All coins have a dragon on the heads side with the words "HU-PEH" PROVINCE over it and the words ""7 MACE AND 2 CANDAREENS" under the dragon.
The back shows Chinese symbols, I can not translate it yet, I know the top part means where that coin was minted, each is a bit different but I can not be sure of details.
There is only 1 coin with a totally different back side (see picture) it looks really freaky that one coin
I have ready that there are many fake ones of these around but I guess these are not fake because they are from the ground not from a dealer.
I know the upper left one is probably silver, the upper right one is made out of a golden looking material (Brass?), looks different from the others but maybe it is just because I cleaned it more....I dare not think it is gold as I guess it would not be that dirty as gold does not corrupt in that way I assume, but who knows, maybe somebody knows better..
That is it for now, enjoy the pictures, any leads and possible value guesses would be appreciated,
I will go back to the site in 2 days, maybe I will find more, I will also clean these coins better and post more pics..
Pictures below, Have a great day
freshly dug..
EDIT: FOUND RING WITH POSSIBLE DIAMOND ONE DAY LATER SAME SITE SEE PICS END OF PAGE
Here`s the story:
Today I was out with my new Vaquero that finally arrived 2 weeks ago here at a local park in Taichung, Taiwan.
It was about 5pm and sun sets at 6, so I wanted to chill out detecting for an hour or two before going back to studying for an exam tomorrow.
Luckily I brought my strap-on headlight, because I was going to be in for the big show....
Started out detecting a park I had never been to before, after 2 minutes a horde of 3 little children come jumping along, among them a hyperactive 8-year old or so that was able to speak English so I had no excuse for ignoring him as he asked me about what I was doing, if he could also hold the detector, dig the hole, etc... I like children but he was just being a pain in the a** because I constantly had to reach out to protect my detector from him jumping on my search coil or worse..
We dug up some trash after 10 minutes of interrupted digging and other children came by, I was about to give up and go home when luckily the mother came and took him away.
Great, sun was almost down and I was very annoyed, only 3 holes dug and all garbage, park seemed like a dump anyways, things worsened when I dug up some irrigation system lids and an old lady came by and told me these lids were all over the park, I should`t destroy them...bla bla
Knowing the park was basically a very bad location due to irrigation system lids and garbage + sun was away now, I decided it was not my day and wanted to go home.
I was detecting my way back to by bike and finally got a decent hit as an old man came by with 2 small children and stood next to me watching me dig.
After I dug up the pull-tab (*sob*) I thought, OK, I lost anyways here so I can just as well be friendly and greeted the old man.
He asked about the detector and I explained in my mediocre Chinese.
Then he suddenly said: "You know what, why don`t you try and go over to that corner of the park, I remember there used to be a little temple with an where people used to buy little offerings a long time ago, maybe you can find some big old coins.."
I laughed to myself and thought, okay, lets play the game, nothing to loose anyways and at least it was a lead.
Long story short: We arrived at the park corner, the man told me where the temple or shrine had been and told me to search in a small area about 5x3 meters big.
20 seconds later, crystal clear hit, huge, ancient-looking Chinese coin popped out right under the grass. Wow, now sh*t is getting real i thought and went on, sure enough every 2 or three swings, same story, 5 minutes later I had found nothing less than 7 huge old coins.
Unluckily other people saw what was happening and came by to look, I made the mistake to lend a coin to one lady and another old man who said please, please let me keep it I remember these when I was small.. I said "okay okay" that was a big mistake maybe, suddenly everyone wanted a coin and I just could not say: "No, I am raiding your fancy little old temple site and you guys are not part of the fun" So i ended up giving away 5 coins to people standing around and 2 coins to the man who had helped me find the site, leaving me with 2 coins (I had found 9 by then)
I then said I had to go home and everyone started leaving. I pretended to ready up my detector for leaving and waited a while.
After 10 minutes everybody was gone and I took the detector back out and put on my head-mounted light.
Very unfortunately I got some very bad interference on my vaquero, threshold wouldn`t keep steady, always humming and chopping, tried to change all settings, no use at all but I knew it was now or never, tried to tweak it as good as was possible and went to it.
I dug up 9 more of the huge coins until the area was clear of signals, I left some iffy ones to be dug up next visit (As I definately plan on going back)
And went for the clear ones.
Very satisfied I rode home and cleaned the coins.
If anybody can help me with some ID`s I would appreciate it a lot.
I am sure one is silver, they are all very heavy, very dirty and appear to be made of at least 2 different materials.
All coins have a dragon on the heads side with the words "HU-PEH" PROVINCE over it and the words ""7 MACE AND 2 CANDAREENS" under the dragon.
The back shows Chinese symbols, I can not translate it yet, I know the top part means where that coin was minted, each is a bit different but I can not be sure of details.
There is only 1 coin with a totally different back side (see picture) it looks really freaky that one coin
I have ready that there are many fake ones of these around but I guess these are not fake because they are from the ground not from a dealer.
I know the upper left one is probably silver, the upper right one is made out of a golden looking material (Brass?), looks different from the others but maybe it is just because I cleaned it more....I dare not think it is gold as I guess it would not be that dirty as gold does not corrupt in that way I assume, but who knows, maybe somebody knows better..
That is it for now, enjoy the pictures, any leads and possible value guesses would be appreciated,
I will go back to the site in 2 days, maybe I will find more, I will also clean these coins better and post more pics..
Pictures below, Have a great day
freshly dug..
EDIT: FOUND RING WITH POSSIBLE DIAMOND ONE DAY LATER SAME SITE SEE PICS END OF PAGE
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