🥇 BANNER This doesn't happen often. Old Hikok wallet with 4 silvers in it, 10k 1943 class ring and an 1875cc dime.

[RatherBeDigging]

Doing mostly public places I don't usually have hunts like this. I've been working a vast area of old farm land. Lot of ground to cover. Needle in hay stack of shotgun shells type place. Got the usual shot shell signal and saw a class ring in the clump.

*1943 10k ring from Bever College. I definitely snagged the bottom of band with shovel. Nothing a jeweler can't fix. It's been sized once and appears to have a crack in one of the sizing seams. 9.11 grams with center stone.

*Had a low tone out of the fields on a trail. A destroyed wallet and I was picking up its snap button and zipper. Moved a few more leaves and had a high tone. Really shiny 1964 Washington. I concluded at one point it must have been in the now mangled wallet. Swept around leaves with pointer and 2 Washington's, a merc and clad nickel all laying on top each other like fallen dominoes. Wallet was made by Hikok mfg Co in New York. I think they sold that brand at sears and maybe other stores? Hikok made men's accessories like belt buckles, wallets ect

*kept going on trail and got the 1875cc. Unfortunately I got the front as it was up against a baby tree. Back is fine , go figure. I'll post a picture when I get home.

Other non precious items in bigger group shot. Think that's a gas key?

 

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[pulltabfelix]

Doing mostly public places I don't usually have hunts like this. I've been working a vast area of old farm land. Lot of ground to cover. Needle in hay stack of shotgun shells type place. Got the usual shot shell signal and saw a class ring in the clump.

*1943 10k ring from Bever College. I definitely snagged the bottom of band with shovel. Nothing a jeweler can't fix. It's been sized once and appears to have a crack in one of the sizing seams. 9.11 grams with center stone.

*Had a low tone out of the fields on a trail. A destroyed wallet and I was picking up its snap button and zipper. Moved a few more leaves and had a high tone. Really shiny 1964 Washington. I concluded at one point it must have been in the now mangled wallet. Swept around leaves with pointer and 2 Washington's, a merc and clad nickel all laying on top each other like fallen dominoes. Wallet was made by Hikok mfg Co in New York. I think they sold that brand at sears and maybe other stores? Hikok made men's accessories like belt buckles, wallets ect

*kept going on trail and got the 1875cc. Unfortunately I got the front as it was up against a baby tree. Back is fine , go figure. I'll post a picture when I get home.

Other non precious items in bigger group shot. Think that's a gas key?

That is some find! Those don't come along very often.

 

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[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some great finds.

 

[SilverDreams]

Congrats on the amazing haul!

 

[Gare]

Congrats on your find !!

 

[TORRERO]

Doing mostly public places I don't usually have hunts like this. I've been working a vast area of old farm land. Lot of ground to cover. Needle in hay stack of shotgun shells type place. Got the usual shot shell signal and saw a class ring in the clump.

*1943 10k ring from Bever College. I definitely snagged the bottom of band with shovel. Nothing a jeweler can't fix. It's been sized once and appears to have a crack in one of the sizing seams. 9.11 grams with center stone.

*Had a low tone out of the fields on a trail. A destroyed wallet and I was picking up its snap button and zipper. Moved a few more leaves and had a high tone. Really shiny 1964 Washington. I concluded at one point it must have been in the now mangled wallet. Swept around leaves with pointer and 2 Washington's, a merc and clad nickel all laying on top each other like fallen dominoes. Wallet was made by Hikok mfg Co in New York. I think they sold that brand at sears and maybe other stores? Hikok made men's accessories like belt buckles, wallets ect

*kept going on trail and got the 1875cc. Unfortunately I got the front as it was up against a baby tree. Back is fine , go figure. I'll post a picture when I get home.

Other non precious items in bigger group shot. Think that's a gas key?

ooops, my bad, didn't read everything,
Apparently you did not get the Ring or the seated liberty in the purse ?
What year was the clad nickel ?
Did the Merc come with the wallet ?


You know what's really amazing ?
That wallet could not have been lost any earlier than 1964, considering that it was the latest date in the coins, (2)
I believe that the Seated Liberty Dime was probably a good luck coin, along with the ring. the other coins were probably pocket change, as my father used to tell me that when he was a young man working in a store, silver was silver and you could find almost anything in regular pocket change... because silver was just that, pocket change..

 

[RatherBeDigging]

ooops, my bad, didn't read everything,
Apparently you did not get the Ring or the seated liberty in the purse ?
What year was the clad nickel ?
Did the Merc come with the wallet ?


You know what's really amazing ?
That wallet could not have been lost any earlier than 1964, considering that it was the latest date in the coins, (2)
I believe that the Seated Liberty Dime was probably a good luck coin, along with the ring. the other coins were probably pocket change, as my father used to tell me that when he was a young man working in a store, silver was silver and you could find almost anything in regular pocket change... because silver was just that, pocket change..

The nickel was a 60s one. Seated dime was on trail to where wallet was found but not in wallet. Wallet was the 3 quarters, a 1944 merc , a clad nickel and a designated photograph. Ring was by a dumpy area. so someone probably lost it dumping their trash there in the 50s ot 60s based on the glass in it. All im same woods though.