Quarters and cannon balls

[ironhorse]

Hey hey diggers !
My last couple of hunts didnt exactly fill up my finds pouch to the brim but I did find a few keepers.

Recently a few of us commented on how few Edward Vll coins show up on hunts...well he's been showing up for me. It's a slicky but a good find just the same...1903 25 cents.
Same field but different site got my button save...early royal artillery cuff button with three stacked cannons topped with three cannon balls on a shield....my little bit of button porn for this post.
Back to quarters again ! As I mentioned in the past, we dont find a lot of seated coins way up north here but they are always fun to find when we do. Hunting a new site ( to me) always perks up your expectations for some great finds, this gave me my second seated this year! That's a first for me, more than one in a calendar year. You may remember my other seated quarter from the spring ... it too was a 1858...what are the odds?
And lastly, a nitnoid of the "what is it" variety. It reminds me of a seal matrix in shape and style but could be a fancy pipe tamper? Its copper alloy and broken along the shaft, there might have been a suspension loop at the broken end.
Let me know what you all think of this one.
So until next time that's my two times by two bits.

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Hey hey diggers! It's been a hectic spring with lots going on...but getting in some digging too! I got in a few hunts in the last week or so with some decent finds and had couple of firsts along with some old favourites. First up a watch winder with a glass jewel in it! I've seen them dug up in...

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats on the great finds !

 

[Glen's Loyalists]

Well done.
That is a really nice seated. We don't find much USA coinage at all here is NS. Some IHP's, buffalo nickel, Mercury dime, one Barber and that's it. Nothing silver and 19th century. I always assumed it was because Halifax currency didn't align well with USA currency, or so I have read. Whereas in NB for example they used a lot of US currency.

 

[ironhorse]

Well done.
That is a really nice seated. We don't find much USA coinage at all here is NS. Some IHP's, buffalo nickel, Mercury dime, one Barber and that's it. Nothing silver and 19th century. I always assumed it was because Halifax currency didn't align well with USA currency, or so I have read. Whereas in NB for example they used a lot of US currency.

You are on the money ( lol)
It is curious that the percentage of US coins we find from 1700s and 1800s is very low but I've found my share and it is a very thin slice but a slice none the less
Places closer to the border and more affluent regions get the lions share from my observation. On the west coast Vancouver Island and the lower mainland had a gold rush fuelling their supply. In southern Ontario on the Great Lakes theres better chances of catching Yankee money in the ground. New Brunswick makes sense as it is a border province but I've not noticed any great amounts showing up there( that's just me)
And as far as that goes it looks like Festivus for the rest of us as in, not much to see here!
Having said that I'll just keep getting out there...you're not going to find it if you dont go looking for it

 

[pepperj]

Nice catches on the silvers.The button is in good contain also.
Wonder if that is a tamper or part of a seal. Is the face just plain/flat?

 

[Glen's Loyalists]

You are on the money ( lol)
It is curious that the percentage of US coins we find from 1700s and 1800s is very low but I've found my share and it is a very thin slice but a slice none the less
Places closer to the border and more affluent regions get the lions share from my observation. On the west coast Vancouver Island and the lower mainland had a gold rush fuelling their supply. In southern Ontario on the Great Lakes theres better chances of catching Yankee money in the ground. New Brunswick makes sense as it is a border province but I've not noticed any great amounts showing up there( that's just me)
And as far as that goes it looks like Festivus for the rest of us as in, not much to see here!
Having said that I'll just keep getting out there...you're not going to find it if you dont go looking for it

I hear that NB is good for US silver. I have read that they were quite dependent on it to the extent that a silver coinage shortage during the US civil war was what lead to their issuing there own silver in 1862 & 1864. I have a fair share of those but have yet to dig one. They are on my bucket list.

 

[LauraLou56]

Hey hey diggers !
My last couple of hunts didnt exactly fill up my finds pouch to the brim but I did find a few keepers.

Recently a few of us commented on how few Edward Vll coins show up on hunts...well he's been showing up for me. It's a slicky but a good find just the same...1903 25 cents.
Same field but different site got my button save...early royal artillery cuff button with three stacked cannons topped with three cannon balls on a shield....my little bit of button porn for this post.
Back to quarters again ! As I mentioned in the past, we dont find a lot of seated coins way up north here but they are always fun to find when we do. Hunting a new site ( to me) always perks up your expectations for some great finds, this gave me my second seated this year! That's a first for me, more than one in a calendar year. You may remember my other seated quarter from the spring ... it too was a 1858...what are the odds?
And lastly, a nitnoid of the "what is it" variety. It reminds me of a seal matrix in shape and style but could be a fancy pipe tamper? Its copper alloy and broken along the shaft, there might have been a suspension loop at the broken end.
Let me know what you all think of this one.
So until next time that's my two times by two bits.

Recent Roundup

Hey hey diggers! It's been a hectic spring with lots going on...but getting in some digging too! I got in a few hunts in the last week or so with some decent finds and had couple of firsts along with some old favourites. First up a watch winder with a glass jewel in it! I've seen them dug up in...

www.treasurenet.com

Interesting read and great finds! The stacked cannon button is unique for sure to find! Awesome job with the coin and love reading these posts that explain! The one item reminds me of a golf tee, for some newbie humor 😂 Will be fun to see what it is!

 

[billb]

Very nice recoveries
Congratulations

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's a beautiful seated quarter. They don't come along very often. Congrats!

 

[ironhorse]

Nice catches on the silvers.The button is in good contain also.
Wonder if that is a tamper or part of a seal. Is the face just plain/flat?

My second pic shows the face...its a crosshatch pattern...I've seen similar designs on watch chain fobs used for ornamental purposes rather than a functioning intaglio design
As it is broken at one end i cant say how the whole thing looked complete

 

[pepperj]

My second pic shows the face...its a crosshatch pattern...I've seen similar designs on watch chain fobs used for ornamental purposes rather than a functioning intaglio design
As it is broken at one end i cant say how the whole thing looked complete

I'm missing something then.
Only have the side view photo.

 

[ironhorse]

I hear that NB is good for US silver. I have read that they were quite dependent on it to the extent that a silver coinage shortage during the US civil war was what lead to their issuing there own silver in 1862 & 1864. I have a fair share of those but have yet to dig one. They are on my bucket list.

Now if you want to discuss how rare it is to dig up local (Atlantic coast) silver that is a completely different can of worms
Newfoundland silver shows up once and a while and is always awesome to see, but the New Brunswick silver is really tough...thirty years detecting and I have found three ( two 10 cents and a five cents) it's that tough...one a decade is my current pace
I'm up to six Seateds now, twice as many as NB silver but mintage numbers will sort that mystery real quick..the two cant even compare
Many many millions of Seated coins vs less than a million for the locals in NB...its all fascinating.

 

[ironhorse]

@ Pepperj
Weird you can only see one pic
Heres a close up of the bottom

 

[xr7ator]

Love both quarters. Very nice and thanks for posting.