BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
We went out for a three day digging marathon before the rains threatened to wash us all away here in LA. Here's the amazing video:
The first day things were slow, and I got some junk and a few buttons, none of which turned out to be anything. Then I got a decent beep and was thinking just another pack rivet. Turned out to be a worn, dateless half real! LOVE that 1700s silver no matter what condition it's in!
Later on I got another decent signal in the swarm of iron nails and saw a silver reeded edge!
Turned out to be one of the nicest condition half dimes I've dug! 1854!
Also nabbed a cuff-sized Civil War eagle button. Great to find those, as I haven't dug as many cuffs as coats over the years. This one was washed out laying right on top!
Also got a couple shield nickles in the iron patch. Here's one:
Then I dug a 1786 Half Real right at the closing bell! Shang was about to leave! Great to see ANOTHER one!!
Then of course, as it ALWAYS does in Louisiana, it rained.
So we got out in the mud and dug more!
Here's a cool, muddy, misty panorama.
Saw some spider webs with dew:
Well the finds of the day were silver! One was a great colonial silver shoe buckle fragment Shang dug! The other was a mystery silver coin. Sounded like a dime on the F75 but looked like nothing I'd ever seen! Turns out it was an 1898 Hong Kong silver dime.
I would LOVE to know how a coin minted in London then shipped to Hong Kong came to rest in a Louisiana sugarcane field!
By Day 3 the mud had dried up for the most part in one of our sites so we got to it. Well, the day started off with a BANG! I dug ANOTHER half real--an 1819 Ferdinand! Decent shape on this little coin, and even though it's not technically colonial, I ain't complaining!
Then shangalang dug a cannonball fragment, nice large chunk, and lo and behold he starts yelling in the field like he's got a swarm of bees after him. Turns out it's a BIG silver edge poking out of a big dirt clod:
We got the camera rolling and he pulled out a BIG FAT CAP AND RAYS TWO REALES!!!
You're gonna have to see this coin up close in HIS post, because he's posting it separately--which a great find like this deserves!
Here are my digs for the marathon:
Hope y'all are able to get out and dig! We just had a boatload of rain here, so our plans are "stuck" for now!
Cheers,
Buck
We went out for a three day digging marathon before the rains threatened to wash us all away here in LA. Here's the amazing video:
The first day things were slow, and I got some junk and a few buttons, none of which turned out to be anything. Then I got a decent beep and was thinking just another pack rivet. Turned out to be a worn, dateless half real! LOVE that 1700s silver no matter what condition it's in!
Later on I got another decent signal in the swarm of iron nails and saw a silver reeded edge!
Turned out to be one of the nicest condition half dimes I've dug! 1854!
Also nabbed a cuff-sized Civil War eagle button. Great to find those, as I haven't dug as many cuffs as coats over the years. This one was washed out laying right on top!
Also got a couple shield nickles in the iron patch. Here's one:
Then I dug a 1786 Half Real right at the closing bell! Shang was about to leave! Great to see ANOTHER one!!
Then of course, as it ALWAYS does in Louisiana, it rained.
So we got out in the mud and dug more!
Here's a cool, muddy, misty panorama.Saw some spider webs with dew:
Well the finds of the day were silver! One was a great colonial silver shoe buckle fragment Shang dug! The other was a mystery silver coin. Sounded like a dime on the F75 but looked like nothing I'd ever seen! Turns out it was an 1898 Hong Kong silver dime.
I would LOVE to know how a coin minted in London then shipped to Hong Kong came to rest in a Louisiana sugarcane field! By Day 3 the mud had dried up for the most part in one of our sites so we got to it. Well, the day started off with a BANG! I dug ANOTHER half real--an 1819 Ferdinand! Decent shape on this little coin, and even though it's not technically colonial, I ain't complaining!
Then shangalang dug a cannonball fragment, nice large chunk, and lo and behold he starts yelling in the field like he's got a swarm of bees after him. Turns out it's a BIG silver edge poking out of a big dirt clod:
We got the camera rolling and he pulled out a BIG FAT CAP AND RAYS TWO REALES!!!
You're gonna have to see this coin up close in HIS post, because he's posting it separately--which a great find like this deserves!
Here are my digs for the marathon:
Hope y'all are able to get out and dig! We just had a boatload of rain here, so our plans are "stuck" for now!
Cheers,
Buck
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