Frodov
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Holy Herdin' Indians! A BUFFALO! Silver
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I uh.. Uh.. I uh.. <wiping silly grin from face> I'm kind of at a loss for words! I finally found an "OLD" coin while metal detecting. Well.. old other than a wheat penny, I've found lots of those and even some older than this coin. But this is still a first for me. I found a Buffalo Nickle ! Uh.. were they silver? <duh> I don't know! Seriously!
Day five of my Staycation, my fourth metal detecting outing. Once again I returned to the big Soccer Complex in the nearby town of Versailles Kentucky. It was quite a bit cooler today compared to the last few days, I was almost expecting there to be frost on the grass instead of dew! I actually broke down and put on long pants (jeans) and a sweatshirt in lieu of my summertime standard of t-shirt and shorts. Brrrr.. At least it wasn't too wet. With the little bit of rainfall we had yesterday, locally, it could have been rather messy out today.. but it's been so dry the ground just soaked up the moisture like a dehydrated sponge!
Pulling up to the soccer field that I had in mind to hunt this morning I opted to park in the gravel parking lot and walk the short distance to the field rather than in the grass along the drive beside the field. At that time I didn't know that the ground was so dry.<shrug> I put on my knee pads, and strapped on my finds bag and digger.. and a wiping rag (small towel) slipped on my gloves and grabbed my detector. After checking the batteries and seeing that they were good to go, I started cherry picking my way over to my selected field. I hit a few targets along the way.. some pull tabs, a cleat, and a few pennies and dimes. But the real digging didn't get started till I started my grid of the soccer field for the day. <grin> Lots of dimes today, and pennies as usual. At one point I found six dimes and seven pennies and one lone clad nickle all within an area about the size of a ..oh.. large pizza? <grin> (that's about 16 inches for those of you unfamiliar with that reference). I'm not sure if that was a pocket spill or several pockets worth.. but it kept me on my knees for a few minutes pinpointing and digging. ChaChing! The Quarters were a bit slow in coming out of the ground today for some reason. I still found several, but they were scattered and few and far between. I found this one big really ugly earring at one point this morning. I didn't realize that it was an earring at first till I turned it over and cleaned the dirt and grass out of the backside of it and found the clasp for the "clip on". It's some really ugly costume jewelry at best. <shrug> I did find another earring along one side of the field later though, it's not a clip on, and it looks to be gold, unfortunately it's not stamped with a K number or any hallmarks.
Probably cheap too. Oh well.. it was fun to find. At one end of the field there is a big old oak tree at the edge of the park. I took myself a little break under this tree after about an hour and a half of constant kneeling and digging. I had to cross over the newly excavated drainage ditch that the parks department just put in the park to get there.. now that WAS a little muddy. *sigh* And I thought I was going to stay relatively clean today. Anyway. After sitting a while I saw bits of wire fence sticking out of the bark on one side of the tree, where the tree had grown over and around the old fence a long time ago. I got to thinking, You know, this is a BIG and therefore OLD tree. I'm sure that there have been others who have taken a few minutes to sit and rest under this very same tree in past. I picked up my detector and turned it on and began swinging around the base of this tree.. Oh there were the usual pull tabs and some can slaw, and a couple of pieces of fence wire similar to what was sticking out of the trunk.. and then I got another nickle signal. Another pull tab.. right? NOT THIS TIME! After zeroing in and digging my plug I found this little Indian Guy looking back at me from about 6 inches down in the dry dirt. Shiny too! I was too stunned to do the chicken dance.. I Swear! I just rocked back on my butt and giggled! I plucked that little Indian Chief out and carefully wiped the dirt off of his worn and scarred face. Turning the coin over I saw that all too welcomed big Bison..er.. Buffalo! Four legs.. and a dangle.. <laughing>
As I said, this coin is rather well worn but I think I can still make out the date on the face.. 1929 !
YEEHAAA! My First Buff! That's a KEEPER!
Well let me tell you, That Buffalo mad my day! Hell! It made my WEEK! But I still had about one third of that soccer field to finish scourring so back at it I went.. albeit with a spring in my step! Coins, Crap, Can Slaw.. Here, There, Everywhere. I still dug a lot before I was finished with that field. And not a bad collection for the effort either! Well it was after lunch time, which I had missed with all the excitement, so I headed back towards my truck.. and found one! At the edge of the field where the parking lot begins I found this honkin' little truck.
Another fine addition to Fro's Used Car Lot.. <grin>
Another find, while "cherry picking" my way back to my truck was this big signal.. turned out to be my buddy Jack!
JFK that is.. John F Kennedy.. as in Kennedy Half DOLLAR.. a bit corroded and weather beaten.. and post 1972, so it's not silver by any stretch of the imagination.. but still a cool and welcomed find! But then Jack wasn't the only find while cherry picking.. I found Charlie Too... Charlie Holloway.. seen here with that really big ugly earring I mentioned earlier.. and my Buff.. <grin>
On the back Charlie had engraved his picture too.. <grin>
I did a search in the phone book looking for any Charlie(s) or Charles Holloway(s) living in Versailles Kentucky.. none listed.. that would have been neat to find this guy who made this "coin" and had lost it apparently many moons ago. Could you imagine the surprise that guy would have had to have this thing show back up after some 30 plus years? I might still make a few calls and see if I can find out what happened to young master Holloway.. it might still catch up with him. <smile>
Well here's my Clad haul for the day..
....not as much as recent days, more than at least one though, all welcomed and all going into the "vacation fund" that actually got cashed in at the bank this afternoon! For a little over 9 weeks of hunting I cashed in $150.00 in clad coins! Who Says this Hobby is expensive! It PAYS YOU TO PLAY! <grin> Got to love this hobby!
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
?I uh.. Uh.. I uh.. <wiping silly grin from face> I'm kind of at a loss for words! I finally found an "OLD" coin while metal detecting. Well.. old other than a wheat penny, I've found lots of those and even some older than this coin. But this is still a first for me. I found a Buffalo Nickle ! Uh.. were they silver? <duh> I don't know! Seriously!
Day five of my Staycation, my fourth metal detecting outing. Once again I returned to the big Soccer Complex in the nearby town of Versailles Kentucky. It was quite a bit cooler today compared to the last few days, I was almost expecting there to be frost on the grass instead of dew! I actually broke down and put on long pants (jeans) and a sweatshirt in lieu of my summertime standard of t-shirt and shorts. Brrrr.. At least it wasn't too wet. With the little bit of rainfall we had yesterday, locally, it could have been rather messy out today.. but it's been so dry the ground just soaked up the moisture like a dehydrated sponge!
Pulling up to the soccer field that I had in mind to hunt this morning I opted to park in the gravel parking lot and walk the short distance to the field rather than in the grass along the drive beside the field. At that time I didn't know that the ground was so dry.<shrug> I put on my knee pads, and strapped on my finds bag and digger.. and a wiping rag (small towel) slipped on my gloves and grabbed my detector. After checking the batteries and seeing that they were good to go, I started cherry picking my way over to my selected field. I hit a few targets along the way.. some pull tabs, a cleat, and a few pennies and dimes. But the real digging didn't get started till I started my grid of the soccer field for the day. <grin> Lots of dimes today, and pennies as usual. At one point I found six dimes and seven pennies and one lone clad nickle all within an area about the size of a ..oh.. large pizza? <grin> (that's about 16 inches for those of you unfamiliar with that reference). I'm not sure if that was a pocket spill or several pockets worth.. but it kept me on my knees for a few minutes pinpointing and digging. ChaChing! The Quarters were a bit slow in coming out of the ground today for some reason. I still found several, but they were scattered and few and far between. I found this one big really ugly earring at one point this morning. I didn't realize that it was an earring at first till I turned it over and cleaned the dirt and grass out of the backside of it and found the clasp for the "clip on". It's some really ugly costume jewelry at best. <shrug> I did find another earring along one side of the field later though, it's not a clip on, and it looks to be gold, unfortunately it's not stamped with a K number or any hallmarks.
Probably cheap too. Oh well.. it was fun to find. At one end of the field there is a big old oak tree at the edge of the park. I took myself a little break under this tree after about an hour and a half of constant kneeling and digging. I had to cross over the newly excavated drainage ditch that the parks department just put in the park to get there.. now that WAS a little muddy. *sigh* And I thought I was going to stay relatively clean today. Anyway. After sitting a while I saw bits of wire fence sticking out of the bark on one side of the tree, where the tree had grown over and around the old fence a long time ago. I got to thinking, You know, this is a BIG and therefore OLD tree. I'm sure that there have been others who have taken a few minutes to sit and rest under this very same tree in past. I picked up my detector and turned it on and began swinging around the base of this tree.. Oh there were the usual pull tabs and some can slaw, and a couple of pieces of fence wire similar to what was sticking out of the trunk.. and then I got another nickle signal. Another pull tab.. right? NOT THIS TIME! After zeroing in and digging my plug I found this little Indian Guy looking back at me from about 6 inches down in the dry dirt. Shiny too! I was too stunned to do the chicken dance.. I Swear! I just rocked back on my butt and giggled! I plucked that little Indian Chief out and carefully wiped the dirt off of his worn and scarred face. Turning the coin over I saw that all too welcomed big Bison..er.. Buffalo! Four legs.. and a dangle.. <laughing>
As I said, this coin is rather well worn but I think I can still make out the date on the face.. 1929 !
YEEHAAA! My First Buff! That's a KEEPER!
Well let me tell you, That Buffalo mad my day! Hell! It made my WEEK! But I still had about one third of that soccer field to finish scourring so back at it I went.. albeit with a spring in my step! Coins, Crap, Can Slaw.. Here, There, Everywhere. I still dug a lot before I was finished with that field. And not a bad collection for the effort either! Well it was after lunch time, which I had missed with all the excitement, so I headed back towards my truck.. and found one! At the edge of the field where the parking lot begins I found this honkin' little truck.
Another fine addition to Fro's Used Car Lot.. <grin>
Another find, while "cherry picking" my way back to my truck was this big signal.. turned out to be my buddy Jack!
JFK that is.. John F Kennedy.. as in Kennedy Half DOLLAR.. a bit corroded and weather beaten.. and post 1972, so it's not silver by any stretch of the imagination.. but still a cool and welcomed find! But then Jack wasn't the only find while cherry picking.. I found Charlie Too... Charlie Holloway.. seen here with that really big ugly earring I mentioned earlier.. and my Buff.. <grin>
On the back Charlie had engraved his picture too.. <grin>
I did a search in the phone book looking for any Charlie(s) or Charles Holloway(s) living in Versailles Kentucky.. none listed.. that would have been neat to find this guy who made this "coin" and had lost it apparently many moons ago. Could you imagine the surprise that guy would have had to have this thing show back up after some 30 plus years? I might still make a few calls and see if I can find out what happened to young master Holloway.. it might still catch up with him. <smile>
Well here's my Clad haul for the day..
....not as much as recent days, more than at least one though, all welcomed and all going into the "vacation fund" that actually got cashed in at the bank this afternoon! For a little over 9 weeks of hunting I cashed in $150.00 in clad coins! Who Says this Hobby is expensive! It PAYS YOU TO PLAY! <grin> Got to love this hobby!
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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Looks like a decent buffalo nickel. Only years nickels were not made of nickel was in the 1940's war years. I think it was 1942 to 1945. Only then did they make the nickels 40% silver.
