Sundays finds a surprise and a thrill, maybe!

[Msbeepbeep]

Sunday's finds a surprise and a thrill, maybe!

Went back to the school field that keeps giving up quarters, was there for four hours still in search of that ever elusive gold ring! So, naturally I dug a lot of foil! I got just a little excited when lipstick case came to light, cause I was thinking small gold brick? Lol! - some days you feel like a nut...and some days you ARE! Lol!
After I calmed down and got some more hunting in, at two inches down, the silver gleam was unmistakable! My first silver dime of the year! I would've done the dance of joy but I was too busy searching for MORE! Lol!
A little while later I dug up what looked like a large ball bearing but was heavy for it's size.
I'm very excited, and hoping it's what I think it is, if so it's my first! The whitish ball next to the silver 1960 Rosie, is not magnetic, has a seam line around the middle, measures 16.88mm, and weighs 29 grams! Soooo, is it what I think it is??
I so hope this pic loads!

Also the spoon bowl lower left I found last week, thought is was just junk metal but the dark color kept bugging me, it's silver!

Limitool - I found another one of those rare metal pencil tops! This one is a rare pink color and came in it's own protective cover! But of course I defer to your expert opinion!

 

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[CoinandRelicMan]

Those old pencil tops from wooden pencils drive me nuts when the lead sticks out it seems to throw the pinpoint off. Might be a 32 caliber musket ball those are very common in the fields out here. Congrats on the silver save also ! Looks like a fun time there !

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Thank you. There is a ton of metal in this field, they used the trash furnace sludge for fill, so it is incredibly hard to ground balance, old iron is every where and modern tin foil is too! But I enjoy a challenge!

 

[dirtlooter]

great finds, sometimes I get challenged out from all of the trash, I keep telling myself that once it is out, I won't be digging it again. LOL

 

[Carolina Tom]

Nice save on the silver... congrats on your first silver coin of the year. From what I hear, Mass is loaded with killer coins.

One of the guys from NC has been to Newton, Mass. twice this summer. He found 5 silver coins in 3 days (including seated dime & Barber quarter), buffs and indians too. You need to go some of those older parks up there.

GL&HH.

 

[worldtalker]

Cool finds Girl,that looks to be a 69 cal. musket ball,the Silver spoon........SWEET!!

The rosie is too!


GOD Bless

Chris

 

[CoilyGirl]

Looks like a musket ball to me too Karen! Congrats on your first silver dime of the year and your other finds are sweet too!

 

[Texas Yankee]

Nice!!! Gotta love silver!

 

[WHADIFIND]

Yep, I would be guessin' a musket ball too. Takes quite a few years for lead to turn white like that, nice save!

Silver? Isn't that the metal they used to make coins out of in the last millennium? Boy, it's been soooo long!

Is that all the garbage you dug or just a representation?

WTG!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Thanks all of you for the comments.
Being my first musket ball thats going in a display case with my 1850 button I got a few weeks back!
I would really be thrilled to find one of the pine tree coins...or any older coin. There was no mistaking the silver dime in the hole it had that soft silver glow. The spoon was tarnished and dark, another reason to always check what you think is trash!

I seem to recall when the coin of the realm was indeed made of silver...long ago! Lol!
All that trash is fresh dug, I don't have a crew to go around planting it for me! Lol!
The weather is perfect this week for MD'ing, I just need to make time to get out more!

Dirtlooter-the trash just keeps multiplying at an even faster rate! One of these days I'm going to run across a "clean" field and I will think the detector isn't working because there is no constant chatter from all the trash! Lol!

 

[46Wheat]

Thank you for sharing that dig and those pictures

 

[park pirate]

Nice..

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Awesome finds..and don't you just LOVE those unexpected finds..like the Rosie..when you are scooping up the clad and run across that! like pennies (...errr..dimes..?) from heaven! I have a school yard close to me that has yielded a TON of clad..mostly quarters (I can tell that nobody has hunted that recently) as at first, I could not go two steps without finding multiple quarters..and of course, got a dime hit..dig dig scoop beep beep.. Rosie !! the ground is really not that old so it was a big surprise to unearth some silver. thx for sharing...ddf

 

[texasred777]

Great finds! Congratulations!

 

[Old Dude]

Very nice MBB. Don't know the caliber, but I would bet anything you have indeed found your first musket ball! I know how excited I was and hope yours gave you just as much excitement.

 

[Ahab8]

Great job Ms Beep. Couldn't happen to a better person. I hope your luck continues

 

[Msbeepbeep]

I think I maybe the only one hunting this park because of all the iron trash and ton of quarters!

 

[treblehunter]

I'd bet my left n.... that is a musket ball, SILVER! very nice, good for you!

 

[Ahab8]

I'd bet my left n.... that is a musket ball, SILVER! very nice, good for you!

Easy bro you don't want to lose your last one! After that terrible incident with the snapping turtle you really shouldn't be betting that prized possession

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Msbeepbeep, because you provided SUPER-PRECISE diameter & weight measurements for your lead ball, I can say it is definitely a musketball... and also tell you what specific type of musketball it is... a Colonial-era Holland (Netherlands/Dutch) .728"-caliber musketball.


You might wonder why a .728-caliber Netherlands/Dutch musket was present in your area. That country founded a colony called New Netherland in America in 1624. It consisted of parts of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The British captured that Dutch colony in 1664.
New Amsterdam becomes New York ? History.com This Day in History ? 9/8/1664

The key ID-clue for correctly identifying your musketball's specific type is its precisely-measured weight, 19 grams (which translated to 447 grains)... and its diameter of 16.88mm, which translates to .665-inch. American and British .69-caliber musketballs were about .645-inch diameter, so yours isn't one of those. The only musket your .665" cast-lead musketball correctly fits is the Holland/Dutch/Netherlands musket... which, very importantly, we know was used in the Northeastern US states in the Colonial era.

I should mention, I found the info for the .728-caliber Holland/Dutch/Netherlands musketball diameter and weight in the bullet-book by McKee-&-Mason, on page 67, in the section titled "Round Balls -- Lead."