Nooberz
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I got out yesterday to a couple of my new fields and had a real good day. The first field was an iron infested mess. I managed to squeeze the smoked 1874 and 1864 Indians out of there.
The second site was way off the road and quite difficult to find. Literally a minute on the site I dug what I thought was a Civil War Officer Artillery Cuff Button. After the cleaning process I noticed many differences between the one I found and the CW cuffs that I already had. The eagle is much smaller and the wings were very skinny. It turns out it is a difficult to find early 1840s Artillery Cuff Button. Thanks to Cannonballguy for the I.D. This is probably my relic find of the year.
The backmark is W.H. HORSTMANN PHI.
The site continued to produce and gave me a nice 1848 LC, my 24th copper of the year, a couple of Indians (1884,1891), and a general service coat button.
I really never thought I would find another nickel 3-cent piece..period, let alone in the same year, but it happened again Wednesday. I went to the field site where I snagged the 1822 Largie the other day. I started off finding the two pretty floral flat buttons. Then like normal I got a 12-02 on the CTX, which you get a million of while detecting, especially in fields. I was expecting a small piece of brass or lead but nope a beautiful 1870 3-center at about 1 inch. These coins are one of the hardest variety of coin made to find while detecting because of the low conductivity.
Next stop was a new bean field that was recently harvested. I only stayed for about an hour and snagged a couple of coppers. 1848 and 1847.
Monday I went out to see what new fields were harvested and found that a lot of them are done now. I didn't have a bunch of time to detect so I stopped at a site that was close to the road. The first signal I dug was the eagle button. Next up was the other 1865 Indian and then the 1867 Shield. Last up was the toasted Large Cent. It is a 1822.
The second site was way off the road and quite difficult to find. Literally a minute on the site I dug what I thought was a Civil War Officer Artillery Cuff Button. After the cleaning process I noticed many differences between the one I found and the CW cuffs that I already had. The eagle is much smaller and the wings were very skinny. It turns out it is a difficult to find early 1840s Artillery Cuff Button. Thanks to Cannonballguy for the I.D. This is probably my relic find of the year.
The backmark is W.H. HORSTMANN PHI.
The site continued to produce and gave me a nice 1848 LC, my 24th copper of the year, a couple of Indians (1884,1891), and a general service coat button.
I really never thought I would find another nickel 3-cent piece..period, let alone in the same year, but it happened again Wednesday. I went to the field site where I snagged the 1822 Largie the other day. I started off finding the two pretty floral flat buttons. Then like normal I got a 12-02 on the CTX, which you get a million of while detecting, especially in fields. I was expecting a small piece of brass or lead but nope a beautiful 1870 3-center at about 1 inch. These coins are one of the hardest variety of coin made to find while detecting because of the low conductivity.
Next stop was a new bean field that was recently harvested. I only stayed for about an hour and snagged a couple of coppers. 1848 and 1847.
Monday I went out to see what new fields were harvested and found that a lot of them are done now. I didn't have a bunch of time to detect so I stopped at a site that was close to the road. The first signal I dug was the eagle button. Next up was the other 1865 Indian and then the 1867 Shield. Last up was the toasted Large Cent. It is a 1822.
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Nice group of coins and buttons!
