I had the day off today and got to a local park late morning. This is a late 19th century neighborhood so the finds are kind of intermingled.
I took the Tejon out for a cruise today and set the disc. To just below nickel and rarely ever checked the Alt. Disc.....which was at S-Cap. I always seem to dig more targets with the Tesoro but also more efficiently. My first good find was a nice old large two piece military button. Next few digs were the usual modern park clad.
After a while I got back into the older stuff and I'm thinking it was the trash dumping area for a possible home site that used to be close. Found a few old compacts, round ball, silver plated spoon, thimble, some kind of buckle and a really cool old tiny square.
After a while I decided to drive over to a farm permission. Decided to swing my F75 here and dug nothing but junk for an hour and a half and started back to the car. About 10ft from the road I get a deep coin like signal and kinda dug with low expectations. After digging down a good 7-8 inches out pops something big and round! When I swiped it with my finger I couldn't believe how the stars and date were coming through. I got a toothpick out of my finds box and removed some crud. I saw 1845 jump out immediately. Never seen a LC with this much details from a farm field. I'm stoked to find such a preserved copper! Just goes to show you never know when you will dig a keeper.
Hoping these pics aren't sideways, upside down ect. Can't seem to get them to work right on here lately
I took the Tejon out for a cruise today and set the disc. To just below nickel and rarely ever checked the Alt. Disc.....which was at S-Cap. I always seem to dig more targets with the Tesoro but also more efficiently. My first good find was a nice old large two piece military button. Next few digs were the usual modern park clad.
After a while I got back into the older stuff and I'm thinking it was the trash dumping area for a possible home site that used to be close. Found a few old compacts, round ball, silver plated spoon, thimble, some kind of buckle and a really cool old tiny square.
After a while I decided to drive over to a farm permission. Decided to swing my F75 here and dug nothing but junk for an hour and a half and started back to the car. About 10ft from the road I get a deep coin like signal and kinda dug with low expectations. After digging down a good 7-8 inches out pops something big and round! When I swiped it with my finger I couldn't believe how the stars and date were coming through. I got a toothpick out of my finds box and removed some crud. I saw 1845 jump out immediately. Never seen a LC with this much details from a farm field. I'm stoked to find such a preserved copper! Just goes to show you never know when you will dig a keeper.
Hoping these pics aren't sideways, upside down ect. Can't seem to get them to work right on here lately
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