West Coast Fever
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Hi all,
Found this Ch'ien-Lung (1736-1795) coin near a creek in an empty lot that just got scraped getting ready for a new store. I always wondered about this particular site, but so much brush and weeds, and homeless leftovers, that I never bothered to look at it twice.
Today I was driving by and stopped in my tracks as I watched them digging a 15' trench 100 yards from the creek. then I noticed that the whole lot was scraped clean and that there were many piles of fresh dug soil to check. I ran home and got my detector (shame on me for leaving it home, I actually was going to hang it up for a little while as it gets inside me and make me use it when I should be home with the kids, real controlling thing it is). Any way, I waited patiently for the crews to end work and drive off, and then i went to work.
I found a great many old nails, forged type, then a forged barn door hasp roughly 12 inches long. Completely forged in iron. A few pieces of old barbs from barbed fences, and some other odds and ends of hardware stuff, then I hit this chinese money. Later I found the penny in another area. I did not take pictures of the other stuff since it is so dirty, but here are the coins.
I am guesing that there may have been some Chinese Share croppers on this site as that was pretty popular in the 1800s around here. The coin would have been minted between 1736 and 1795, and probably was in use for a long while here in the states since I do not think that the early Chinese settlers had acces to much new coins, and so recirculated the coins amongst themselves for many years. Just a guess.
Found this Ch'ien-Lung (1736-1795) coin near a creek in an empty lot that just got scraped getting ready for a new store. I always wondered about this particular site, but so much brush and weeds, and homeless leftovers, that I never bothered to look at it twice.
Today I was driving by and stopped in my tracks as I watched them digging a 15' trench 100 yards from the creek. then I noticed that the whole lot was scraped clean and that there were many piles of fresh dug soil to check. I ran home and got my detector (shame on me for leaving it home, I actually was going to hang it up for a little while as it gets inside me and make me use it when I should be home with the kids, real controlling thing it is). Any way, I waited patiently for the crews to end work and drive off, and then i went to work.
I found a great many old nails, forged type, then a forged barn door hasp roughly 12 inches long. Completely forged in iron. A few pieces of old barbs from barbed fences, and some other odds and ends of hardware stuff, then I hit this chinese money. Later I found the penny in another area. I did not take pictures of the other stuff since it is so dirty, but here are the coins.
I am guesing that there may have been some Chinese Share croppers on this site as that was pretty popular in the 1800s around here. The coin would have been minted between 1736 and 1795, and probably was in use for a long while here in the states since I do not think that the early Chinese settlers had acces to much new coins, and so recirculated the coins amongst themselves for many years. Just a guess.
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