Mystery 1800's coin / Silver (finally) / Ran out of Time

[ModernMiner]

So yesterday, I went back to one of the late 1800's houses that I have been detecting in town. It has a large backyard. It was a real heat wave - 40 degrees.
Most of the areas in the backyard were frozen. I had to literally stand on my shovel, wiggle left to right, back and forth, just to cut one side of a four sided plug.
Needless to say, not only did it put a hurting on this old body, but it cut into my digging time as you can imagine.
I toughed it out for about 3 hours and did walk away with a few keepers.
My finds were:
*1943 Merc - my first silver coin in this yard so far.
*Circa 1853-1858 Napoleon lll 5- centimes . (Thanks "Underminer" for the ID. )
*Aluminum "Autorized RCA Distributor - It Pays To Say RCA" token.
*Brass Pocket Watch frame. Symbolizing I'm out of time?
*5 Wheat pennies (1919-1954), not in photos.
*Misc pieces: Brass door lock piece, piece of a skeleton key, pottery shards, square nail, round gold gilted what's-it , small clip, metal metal, clad.

Will be headed back next week to finish the yard once the ground thaws out.
Thanks for L@@KING Gang. Happy Friday, and have a great weekend.
I hear margaritas calling me.

ModernMiner, over and out

 

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[Tony in SC]

The Merc looks really good!!

 

[ModernMiner]

The Merc looks really good!!

Thanks Tony. I was happy to see it that’s for sure. The owner said the yard “had been detected” before by a guy that tools some trees down in the yard.
I started to think he had found all the silver coins.

 

[oldmxrat]

Cool finds, glad you could still get out there and get them, congrats!

 

[iAmMike]

Not too shabby sir. Glad you made it out there in the cold.

 

[mikefromIllinois]

Nice finds MM. I wish it was 40 here I would be out in shorts and a tee shirt. We have almost 20in. of snow on the ground and tonights low is -5 with a wind chill of -25. It's been this way for the past week, can't wait for spring.

 

[scruggs]

Good hunt and nice finds you made, good job!

 

[ModernMiner]

Nice finds MM. I wish it was 40 here I would be out in shorts and a tee shirt. We have almost 20in. of snow on the ground and tonights low is -5 with a wind chill of -25. It's been this way for the past week, can't wait for spring.

I hear ya. My brother is up in the north east corner of Indiana. 24” of snow. I remember those days back in the 60’s and 70’s up there. I delivered pizzas in the late 70’s up there. Hard to get traction in a 73 Firebird with wide rear tires. lol.

 

[Digger RJ]

So yesterday, I went back to one of the late 1800's houses that I have been detecting in town. It has a large backyard. It was a real heat wave - 40 degrees.
Most of the areas in the backyard were frozen. I had to literally stand on my shovel, wiggle left to right, back and forth, just to cut one side of a four sided plug.
Needless to say, not only did it put a hurting on this old body, but it cut into my digging time as you can imagine.
I toughed it out for about 3 hours and did walk away with a few keepers.
My finds were:
*1943 Merc - my first silver coin in this yard so far.
*Circa 1853-1858 Napoleon lll 5- centimes . (Thanks "Underminer" for the ID. )
*Aluminum "Autorized RCA Distributor - It Pays To Say RCA" token.
*Brass Pocket Watch frame. Symbolizing I'm out of time?
*5 Wheat pennies (1919-1954), not in photos.
*Misc pieces: Brass door lock piece, piece of a skeleton key, pottery shards, square nail, round gold gilted what's-it , small clip, metal metal, clad.

Will be headed back next week to finish the yard once the ground thaws out.
Thanks for L@@KING Gang. Happy Friday, and have a great weekend.
I hear margaritas calling me.

ModernMiner, over and out

Very Cool & Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Bamasteve]

Very nice bunch of finds, congrats!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Great finds - congrats !

As you probably already know ...
When grass and sand areas are to frozen to dig - you can usually still dig fairly easily in the woods.
The decaying leaves really help the ground from freezing up that bad.

 

[Gare]

ModernMiner you did amazing thanks for sharing with us

 

[Merf]

So yesterday, I went back to one of the late 1800's houses that I have been detecting in town. It has a large backyard. It was a real heat wave - 40 degrees.
Most of the areas in the backyard were frozen. I had to literally stand on my shovel, wiggle left to right, back and forth, just to cut one side of a four sided plug.
Needless to say, not only did it put a hurting on this old body, but it cut into my digging time as you can imagine.
I toughed it out for about 3 hours and did walk away with a few keepers.
My finds were:
*1943 Merc - my first silver coin in this yard so far.
*Circa 1853-1858 Napoleon lll 5- centimes . (Thanks "Underminer" for the ID. )
*Aluminum "Autorized RCA Distributor - It Pays To Say RCA" token.
*Brass Pocket Watch frame. Symbolizing I'm out of time?
*5 Wheat pennies (1919-1954), not in photos.
*Misc pieces: Brass door lock piece, piece of a skeleton key, pottery shards, square nail, round gold gilted what's-it , small clip, metal metal, clad.

Will be headed back next week to finish the yard once the ground thaws out.
Thanks for L@@KING Gang. Happy Friday, and have a great weekend.
I hear margaritas calling me.

ModernMiner, over and out

Nice finds MM. hunting in that weather is a workout for sure. Too cold here. -4 and four inches of frozen ground. Can’t wait for springtime.

 

[Silvermonkey]

Great finds MM. I love finding unusual coins. That 1800's French 5 centimes is fantastic. I give you much credit for overcoming the weather and frozen ground. I went out earlier this week and tried to detect with about 2 inches of snow covering everything....it was both cold and wet! Not much fun. Here's hoping for a warm-up!

 

[ModernMiner]

Great finds - congrats !

As you probably already know ...
When grass and sand areas are to frozen to dig - you can usually still dig fairly easily in the woods.
The decaying leaves really help the ground from freezing up that bad.

Yep. When I lived in the Raleigh area I had access to two properties that kept me busy for about 10 years. They had woods like you mentioned. I remember digging in the snow some days. I dug a lot of CW relics on those properties. Both Union and Confederate.
Thanks for the post.
MM

 

[ModernMiner]

Nice finds MM. hunting in that weather is a workout for sure. Too cold here. -4 and four inches of frozen ground. Can’t wait for springtime.

I hear ya buddy. My brothers lives in LaPorte, Ind about 20 minutes from Lake Michigan. I think they got about 24” of snow yesterday on top of the -0 temps. Too damn cold for me.
Good luck in those fields this year. 👍
Doug

 

[Davers]

So yesterday, I went back to one of the late 1800's houses that I have been detecting in town. It has a large backyard. It was a real heat wave - 40 degrees.
Most of the areas in the backyard were frozen. I had to literally stand on my shovel, wiggle left to right, back and forth, just to cut one side of a four sided plug.
Needless to say, not only did it put a hurting on this old body, but it cut into my digging time as you can imagine.
I toughed it out for about 3 hours and did walk away with a few keepers.
My finds were:
*1943 Merc - my first silver coin in this yard so far.
*Circa 1853-1858 Napoleon lll 5- centimes . (Thanks "Underminer" for the ID. )
*Aluminum "Autorized RCA Distributor - It Pays To Say RCA" token.
*Brass Pocket Watch frame. Symbolizing I'm out of time?
*5 Wheat pennies (1919-1954), not in photos.
*Misc pieces: Brass door lock piece, piece of a skeleton key, pottery shards, square nail, round gold gilted what's-it , small clip, metal metal, clad.

Will be headed back next week to finish the yard once the ground thaws out.
Thanks for L@@KING Gang. Happy Friday, and have a great weekend.
I hear margaritas calling me.

ModernMiner, over and out

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