🥇 BANNER What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Bill D. (VA)

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Just got permission for a new colonial site that I've had my eye on for some time. No, this is not the holy grail site I referred to in my last post, but the way it turned out it might as well have been. As I was driving down the lane approaching the house a beautiful bald eagle flew directly in front of my truck so things were starting out right. Then the first signal I got when I walked out in the field was a NY cuff button that fell apart in my hand, but that was still a good sign. After that I wandered around for a bit without finding much, then ventured to another part of the property where I found a musketball, then a 3-ringer and an eagle button not long after. So I decided to hunker down in that spot for a while. As I usually do at colonial sites I dig all non-ferrous targets as many of the tombacs, other small buttons, buckle pieces, etc, often come in quite low on the conductivity scale. As a result I end up digging loads of lead buck shot which I was certainly doing yesterday. I got another one of those hits, maybe just a tad higher on the scale of my F75, and it was a very consistent 27. I knew it was very shallow so I stuck my shovel in at a low angle, then flipped the 2-inch scraping upside down. Immediately I saw a beautiful gold coin staring back at me. I was lucky I didn't hit it with the shovel. I eventually had the nerve to actually touch it, and it turned out to be a gorgeous 1852 one dollar gold piece. I was stunned to say the least. Took me a while to get my wits about myself, then I started hunting the same area a little more slowly. I think I dug one more bullet, then got another nice deep sounding bullet signal. Dug a fairly deep hole (12") and the target was still in the bottom. Finally I got it out and was looking at the back of what I thought was a large pewter spoon. But it was quite heavy. I flipped it over and started scraping the wet dirt out with my fingers when that magical "US" started to appear and I realized I had just unearthed my first US boxplate complete with lead backing. What a hunt this was turning out to be! Later in the day I found a nice piece of cut silver which completed the trifecta. I also dug a nice assortment of other colonial and CW relics including a colonial hoe I pulled from a trash pit. When I was cleaning the finds this afternoon I noticed that what I thought was another beat up NY button turned out to be a Mass coat, also a first for me. And to top things off I thought I saw some writing around the edge of one of the large flat buttons, and after putting it in a warm hydrogen peroxide bath for a while I could see the word "Carolus" so I knew I had dug a spanish colonial copper. Anyway, it was an incredible day that I won't soon forget. This is probably my best hunt ever aside from the 2 days I found the twin hammered silver caches 4 years ago. HH to all!
 

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Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Bill, whenever I see one of your posts, I go right to it because I know it's gonna be good. More often than not it's exceptional :headbang: Like today :laughing7:

I may have to follow you around during DIV XXI later this week :icon_pirat:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

What a day You had! Nice finds with a beauty topper!
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

AMAZING :notworthy: :notworthy:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Bill, you enjoyed that once in a lifetime hunt that every relic hunter dreams about Great finds and I bet you'll be back out to that site tomorrow. Congrats on the gold coin and the other great finds and a well deserved banner. WTG, Quindy.
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

:icon_pirat: :notworthy: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :notworthy: :icon_pirat:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Congratulations on your finds today Bill, you really hit a home run with this site!!! :hello2:

I can't wait to see what else you pull from there!!! :thumbsup:


Congrats on making the :wav: BANNER!!! :wav:
Dave
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Wow, what a day!! :headbang: :headbang: That's a banner hunt, congrats all the way! :thumbsup:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Fantastic and congratulations!
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

What an amazing day you had!
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

WhooWhee :o
My comment on your last post was 'I see some good indicators'
Well, you hit the right spot on this hunt!
Congrats on the great additions to your collection and fastest banner seen!
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

steelheadwill said:
WhooWhee :o
My comment on your last post was 'I see some good indicators'
Well, you hit the right spot on this hunt!
Congrats on the great additions to your collection and fastest banner seen!

Thanks Herbie - but I trade it all and then some for one of your oak tree shillings.
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

wow wow wow!! amazing hunt! congrats on a dream day and banner finds :hello2: :hello2:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Way to go Bill. Congrats on the gold coin. That's one heck of a hunt !!!
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Wow!!! you had an fantastic day, saving history one piece at a time, great job!!! :headbang:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Congratulations!
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Could it get any better then the day you had, doubt it, Congrats :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Wow that is an amazing hunt, congrats on all of the good finds! :headbang:
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Steve in PA said:
Bill, whenever I see one of your posts, I go right to it because I know it's gonna be good. More often than not it's exceptional :headbang: Like today :laughing7:

I may have to follow you around during DIV XXI later this week :icon_pirat:

Thanks Steve, but you may want to reconsider following me around as I may lead you astray as I try to learn this darn GPX-5000.
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

Bill D. (VA) said:
Steve in PA said:
Bill, whenever I see one of your posts, I go right to it because I know it's gonna be good. More often than not it's exceptional :headbang: Like today :laughing7:

I may have to follow you around during DIV XXI later this week :icon_pirat:

Thanks Steve, but you may want to reconsider following me around as I may lead you astray as I try to learn this darn GPX-5000.

Is the GPX-5000 awesome? I would love to play with one at one of my hunted out sites.
 

Re: What an amazing day - gold coin/colonial silver and copper/US box plate & more!!

wow very nice.

Great Digs

:icon_thumleft:
 

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