DownEast_Detecting
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- Feb 26, 2020
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT Pro, Minelab CTX 3030
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Went to this tiny beach area yesterday. (maybe 50 feet wide.) The old Rail Road tracks used to pass right next to it. It almost looks like there was a platform or small station there. Regardless the small beach looks like it would of made a great landing site in this very historic area. As you can see below, the tracks where moved sometime in the 1940's i think. Blue circles are were the tracks use to be, and where the small platform or station was on land. The red circle is the beach area where i was hunting. On one of the present day satellite images, there are tracks drawn over where they use to be. So you can see how it moved. The green circle is up river a little bit, you can still see the supports for the old bridge. You can see them better on the 56 aerial. I was surprised how little i dug though. This place must of been hunted before.
Down near the low water mark (purple X) is where i found my first (old) silver. A 1853 liberty seated dime with arrows. I was pumped but I didn't dig a big enough hole in the mud and scratched it with my shovel. 😌 ughh
That was all that was in the mud below the high water mark. But a little higher up on land (yellow X) i found a Civil war patriotic token. "Army and Navy, The federal union, it must and shall be preserved" This is my second one so far. The other one from a different site was the US monitor one. The history of these things are pretty cool and i love to find them.
"early in 1862 all metallic currency was gradually withdrawn from circulation. Citizens, anticipating the increase in value of all metals, started hoarding gold, silver, and even copper to such an extent, that in a short time there were no metallic coins of any denomination in circulation. Tradesmen were forced to issue a medium that would supply the place of small coins."
"They were only around for a short period from late 1862 to mid 1864. But there are over 10,000 varieties representing 22 states, 400 towns and about 1500 individual merchants. "
George and Melvin Fuld and David Powell
here is a non dug example
Down near the low water mark (purple X) is where i found my first (old) silver. A 1853 liberty seated dime with arrows. I was pumped but I didn't dig a big enough hole in the mud and scratched it with my shovel. 😌 ughh
That was all that was in the mud below the high water mark. But a little higher up on land (yellow X) i found a Civil war patriotic token. "Army and Navy, The federal union, it must and shall be preserved" This is my second one so far. The other one from a different site was the US monitor one. The history of these things are pretty cool and i love to find them.
"early in 1862 all metallic currency was gradually withdrawn from circulation. Citizens, anticipating the increase in value of all metals, started hoarding gold, silver, and even copper to such an extent, that in a short time there were no metallic coins of any denomination in circulation. Tradesmen were forced to issue a medium that would supply the place of small coins."
"They were only around for a short period from late 1862 to mid 1864. But there are over 10,000 varieties representing 22 states, 400 towns and about 1500 individual merchants. "
George and Melvin Fuld and David Powell
here is a non dug example
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