pa-dirt_nc-sand
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This post captures finds from several low priority sites in the old W PA woods over the last couple of days.
I think this is a radiator adjuster key or gas lamp key.
Found my 4th 1 1/8” brass ball since I started detecting 5 yrs ago. Normally these are id’d as black powder mill balls, but now having found 4 in different sites, I’m thinking they had to do with the oil boom in W PA 100 years ago. Many of my sites have the rusted infrastructure of the old oil wells. The no date Buff and some wheats are the only old coin found recently.
This is a buckle cover, first one I’ve found with a patent date.
I’ve been digging so many old and modern bullets and hunter trash, I thought this was a typical lost hunters zipper. Ends up being a shoe shaped token for a shoe mfg 100+ years ago. I think there is one on EBay now for $80, who would have thought...
On Sunday we were at the end of a fairly grueling 4 mile hunt/hike/scouting mission. We had one last dot to check on the way back to the cars.
Got a solid 19 signal that finally sounded like a coin, thought it was going to be and IHP.
Too big, thought maybe a 2 cent or half cent when it popped.
After a bit of field clean up could see it was holed and brass, could not ID it.
Cleaned up and posted to the Tnet What’s It team, came back with a 10 Escudos Token, Gaming token, Fantasy Token or Jeton. After Googling looks like there are a bunch out there, but can’t find any historical Information on why they would be made to look just like a gold coin? Was it made in 1868? It was found in a very remote old spot, not like a school park or beach where I have found fake reales in the past?
Here’s the handful.
Good luck out there!
I think this is a radiator adjuster key or gas lamp key.
Found my 4th 1 1/8” brass ball since I started detecting 5 yrs ago. Normally these are id’d as black powder mill balls, but now having found 4 in different sites, I’m thinking they had to do with the oil boom in W PA 100 years ago. Many of my sites have the rusted infrastructure of the old oil wells. The no date Buff and some wheats are the only old coin found recently.
This is a buckle cover, first one I’ve found with a patent date.
I’ve been digging so many old and modern bullets and hunter trash, I thought this was a typical lost hunters zipper. Ends up being a shoe shaped token for a shoe mfg 100+ years ago. I think there is one on EBay now for $80, who would have thought...
On Sunday we were at the end of a fairly grueling 4 mile hunt/hike/scouting mission. We had one last dot to check on the way back to the cars.
Got a solid 19 signal that finally sounded like a coin, thought it was going to be and IHP.
Too big, thought maybe a 2 cent or half cent when it popped.
After a bit of field clean up could see it was holed and brass, could not ID it.
Cleaned up and posted to the Tnet What’s It team, came back with a 10 Escudos Token, Gaming token, Fantasy Token or Jeton. After Googling looks like there are a bunch out there, but can’t find any historical Information on why they would be made to look just like a gold coin? Was it made in 1868? It was found in a very remote old spot, not like a school park or beach where I have found fake reales in the past?
Here’s the handful.
Good luck out there!
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