tnt-hunter
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Sorry this took so long to post, but life has been busy lately.
I got a chance for one last hunt in 2019 so I went back to the campus with the CZ21 and had a little luck. In my last post from the campus I got silver, gold, and old. I was hoping the field would keep giving like that. I knew it might not. Well it didn’t. I did 2 more hunts and only found the usual clad and junk. One 4 hour hunt yielded 55 coins with a face value of $3.38 and the next 3.5 hour hunt gave me 45 coins with a face value of $3.50. Things were doing great for gas money, but no fun finds so I was getting a little bored, but you never know what else is in the ground unless you cover ever inch and dig up all the decent signals. So I went back on New Year’s Eve.
The weather the day before was in the 60s, but I had family obligations so I had to go the next day when it was in the mid 30s and I was actually getting snowed on for part of the time. In 4 hours I managed to find 50 coins with a face value of only $2.14 (lots of pennies not many quarters), a fork, a melted chunk of lead, the top of an old brass safety razor, a bullet, the top of a Barbasol shaving cream tube, a flattened round ball, an old copper coin, and a star rivet. Of course there was the ever present foil, tabs, can slaw and occasional large iron chunk. I have been told the star rivet is civil war era, but I think they were made for a long time. If anyone has any info on them I would appreciate anything you can share about them.
The fork is a gold aluminum one marked with 1 WALDO HE. It was made of a special aluminum alloy that retained its gold color and was very durable. The appeal was it was inexpensive and did not have plating that wore off. This is the Rialto pattern and was patented in 1894. Mine is a little bent up and the acid soil has caused some pitting in spots. This is the first “golden“ fork I have ever seen so it is kind of cool.
The copper was a big surprise. I was just getting started and had only been swingin for about 10 minutes. I had found a stainless watch back and some slaw. I got a mid tone which I thought was a tab. I dug the hole about 6 inches deep and the target was not in the plug. The pinpointer told me it was deeper so I scooped out another 2 inches of dirt and out popped this green disk. In the past large coppers have been a high tone. It was cloudy and darkish and I couldn’t make out my details on the coin so I put it in my finds box and went on. When I got back to the truck I took out my loop and took a look. It is a George 2 half penny dated 1751 I believe. The last digit looks like a 7, but the pictures of the 1751 on line have a 1 that looks like a 7. It is only the second George 2 I have found in my 17 1/2 years of detecting. (We don’t find a lot of old British coppers in the mountains and it has been a while since I found one.)
When I put a little water on the coin and used a terry cloth rag to give it a light rub and remove some of the dirt part of the coin’s edge broke off. With the mid tone and delicate nature of the metal is it possible this is an old counterfeit copper? As I said I don’t find a lot of old British coppers so any help would be appreciated.
It’s still a little crusty and bumpy, but I think I will leave it alone for now.
Many of the pennies were zinc Lincolns and the acid soil loves them because it eats them right up as you can see by these examples. When they are eaten up they often produce a mid tone signal. What do you do with your eaten up pennies? Banks and credit unions won’t take them, the coinstar rejects them and I have a ton of them.
So once again the mid tone signals paid off. It’s a lot more work digging all of them, but the good ones make it all worth while. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things. Good luck in 2020.
I got a chance for one last hunt in 2019 so I went back to the campus with the CZ21 and had a little luck. In my last post from the campus I got silver, gold, and old. I was hoping the field would keep giving like that. I knew it might not. Well it didn’t. I did 2 more hunts and only found the usual clad and junk. One 4 hour hunt yielded 55 coins with a face value of $3.38 and the next 3.5 hour hunt gave me 45 coins with a face value of $3.50. Things were doing great for gas money, but no fun finds so I was getting a little bored, but you never know what else is in the ground unless you cover ever inch and dig up all the decent signals. So I went back on New Year’s Eve.
The weather the day before was in the 60s, but I had family obligations so I had to go the next day when it was in the mid 30s and I was actually getting snowed on for part of the time. In 4 hours I managed to find 50 coins with a face value of only $2.14 (lots of pennies not many quarters), a fork, a melted chunk of lead, the top of an old brass safety razor, a bullet, the top of a Barbasol shaving cream tube, a flattened round ball, an old copper coin, and a star rivet. Of course there was the ever present foil, tabs, can slaw and occasional large iron chunk. I have been told the star rivet is civil war era, but I think they were made for a long time. If anyone has any info on them I would appreciate anything you can share about them.
The fork is a gold aluminum one marked with 1 WALDO HE. It was made of a special aluminum alloy that retained its gold color and was very durable. The appeal was it was inexpensive and did not have plating that wore off. This is the Rialto pattern and was patented in 1894. Mine is a little bent up and the acid soil has caused some pitting in spots. This is the first “golden“ fork I have ever seen so it is kind of cool.
The copper was a big surprise. I was just getting started and had only been swingin for about 10 minutes. I had found a stainless watch back and some slaw. I got a mid tone which I thought was a tab. I dug the hole about 6 inches deep and the target was not in the plug. The pinpointer told me it was deeper so I scooped out another 2 inches of dirt and out popped this green disk. In the past large coppers have been a high tone. It was cloudy and darkish and I couldn’t make out my details on the coin so I put it in my finds box and went on. When I got back to the truck I took out my loop and took a look. It is a George 2 half penny dated 1751 I believe. The last digit looks like a 7, but the pictures of the 1751 on line have a 1 that looks like a 7. It is only the second George 2 I have found in my 17 1/2 years of detecting. (We don’t find a lot of old British coppers in the mountains and it has been a while since I found one.)
When I put a little water on the coin and used a terry cloth rag to give it a light rub and remove some of the dirt part of the coin’s edge broke off. With the mid tone and delicate nature of the metal is it possible this is an old counterfeit copper? As I said I don’t find a lot of old British coppers so any help would be appreciated.
It’s still a little crusty and bumpy, but I think I will leave it alone for now.
Many of the pennies were zinc Lincolns and the acid soil loves them because it eats them right up as you can see by these examples. When they are eaten up they often produce a mid tone signal. What do you do with your eaten up pennies? Banks and credit unions won’t take them, the coinstar rejects them and I have a ton of them.
So once again the mid tone signals paid off. It’s a lot more work digging all of them, but the good ones make it all worth while. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things. Good luck in 2020.
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