steelheadwill
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Lead Counterfeit & other Oddities
Hello Everyone,
the place I've been searching lately was used for much lead casting,
found many balls with sprues, unfinished longline jigs, and piles of lead slag,
a 30lb stamped lead ingot, and an 18 gram lead Draped Cent.
So here's the newest lead find, I believe it was meant to be a copy of an early quarter, not much left to it except the multipointed incused stars, traces of 'United'
and some crude reeding.
correct diameter for a quarter, about 6 grams in weight.
Found 2 lead jigs with the usual hole and V cut on top, one never finished, note the sprue like a nail head where the hook would go.
I would assume the brass piece to be a ship spike,
but why the fancy handwork
got piece of a large silver soupspoon, marked 184?, why it was bent & cleanly sheared off is another mystery, anyway 28 grams scrap silver
A ringed .32 ricochet, .58 cal ball, and a lead piece shaped like an orange section, have found these in various sizes before, has anyone else dug these
thanks for looking and Best Digs to Everyone
Hello Everyone,
the place I've been searching lately was used for much lead casting,
found many balls with sprues, unfinished longline jigs, and piles of lead slag,
a 30lb stamped lead ingot, and an 18 gram lead Draped Cent.
So here's the newest lead find, I believe it was meant to be a copy of an early quarter, not much left to it except the multipointed incused stars, traces of 'United'
and some crude reeding.
correct diameter for a quarter, about 6 grams in weight.
Found 2 lead jigs with the usual hole and V cut on top, one never finished, note the sprue like a nail head where the hook would go.
I would assume the brass piece to be a ship spike,
but why the fancy handwork
got piece of a large silver soupspoon, marked 184?, why it was bent & cleanly sheared off is another mystery, anyway 28 grams scrap silver
A ringed .32 ricochet, .58 cal ball, and a lead piece shaped like an orange section, have found these in various sizes before, has anyone else dug these
thanks for looking and Best Digs to Everyone
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