What are some of your best NUMBERS days?

[Iron Patch]

By numbers I mean the most of anything you've found on a single day and that hunt will always stick in your mind as be great.

The ones that stick out for me are....

-28 Large coppers (1830 was the newest)

-5 early military buttons (Were Rev War)

-180 Enfield bullets


I don't think I'll beat my copper count, and know I won't find more Enfields, but I do believe some day I will hit a site and find more than 5 early military buttons... and I can't wait to post it!

 

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[CRUSADER]

Do these count there were 16 hammered altogether, but some were well battered so I never pictured them with the rest

SS

I'd say they count! Them pics make me drool.....or that could be the Stella

Still doesn't beat my 234 Cartwheel pennies though

...and the 134 mushrooms that's in your English tea!

mushy wine can have that in a teaspoon, Tea's for Breakfast

 

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[Deepdiger60]

So far back in Nov. at a new construction site what used to be a old filling station i found in a hour and half until it got dark out
3 Morgans 1886 1900 1921
4 Walking Liberty's halfs 2 1936 1 1943 1 1942
1 Columbian Exposition half dollar 1893
1 Seated quarter 1854
2 Barbar dimes 1912
1 seated half dime 1850
1 Merc dime 1930
1 IH 1903
1 Gold 14k high school pin 1959
I dont think ill will ever top that but who knows ? it would be nice HH Jim

 

[BuckleBoy]

So far back in Nov. at a new construction site what used to be a old filling station i found in a hour and half until it got dark out
3 Morgans 1886 1900 1921
4 Walking Liberty's halfs 2 1936 1 1943 1 1942
1 Columbian Exposition half dollar 1893
1 Seated quarter 1854
2 Barbar dimes 1912
1 seated half dime 1850
1 Merc dime 1930
1 IH 1903
1 Gold 14k high school pin 1959
I dont think ill will ever top that but who knows ? it would be nice HH Jim

Nice soil you have there! I think I'm moving to your neck of the woods.

 

[Deepdiger60]

So far back in Nov. at a new construction site what used to be a old filling station i found in a hour and half until it got dark out
3 Morgans 1886 1900 1921
4 Walking Liberty's halfs 2 1936 1 1943 1 1942
1 Columbian Exposition half dollar 1893
1 Seated quarter 1854
2 Barbar dimes 1912
1 seated half dime 1850
1 Merc dime 1930
1 IH 1903
1 Gold 14k high school pin 1959
I dont think ill will ever top that but who knows ? it would be nice HH Jim

Nice soil you have there! I think I'm moving to your neck of the woods.

Yup Buckle Boy just about all the silver i found out here is like new it seems the deeper the better even copper comes out half way decent it has to be the sand that site i hit all those coins is still underway because of the insane cesspool laws out here after the thin layer of soil was removed its all almost white beach sand huge mounds of it where the foundations are being built , i would love to get back in there but its all fenced off 6 foot high with signs saying keep out !! ,you would think since all these towns are just a few feet above sea level and go back to the 1600,s legion has it that at least 4 times the entire area has been under 4 to 5 feet of salt water if you just go amile inland its all dark deep soil with a layer of sea shells everywhere mostly oyster and sea scallop about 6 to 8 inches deep i seen silver wheat's and IH half eatin away plus the high salt drives my DFX crazy you just gotta hit the right spot the 2 oldest coins i pulled out of farm fields a Greek bronze Bee Stage coin dating to around 321 BC !! and a 1760 silver King Louis XV Pau bigger then a silver dollar minted in Paris other then a few dozen plow marks on them its still in great shape ? go figure . Jim HH

 

[Iron Patch]

Do these count there were 16 hammered altogether, but some were well battered so I never pictured them with the rest

SS

That must have been quite a rush to see them keep coming! One day I'd like to see another English hammered found here, and me digging it of course.

...and to think someone on here can't even find a Cartwheel.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

At least 200 soda tops....I don't find any thing else

 

[shaun7]

Do these count there were 16 hammered altogether, but some were well battered so I never pictured them with the rest

SS

That must have been quite a rush to see them keep coming! One day I'd like to see another English hammered found here, and me digging it of course.

...and to think someone on here can't even find a Cartwheel.

<<< I found you a new outfit my little Munchkin

 

[Piepstokloper]

52 Coppers and 1 Sealstamp.

 

[Iron Patch]

Do these count there were 16 hammered altogether, but some were well battered so I never pictured them with the rest

SS

That must have been quite a rush to see them keep coming! One day I'd like to see another English hammered found here, and me digging it of course.

...and to think someone on here can't even find a Cartwheel.

<<< I found you a new outfit my little Munchkin

I like it "Little Patch!" I'll have to fix it a bit for you though.

 

[Iron Patch]

Here ya go!

 

[shaun7]

Here ya go!

 

[hikeinmts]

I was hunting in the late 1980's with an Air Force guy here in S. Korea. Looking for a coin site, but nothing when we got to the top of the hill. So I thought that it was too late to go anyplace else, so will put the detector together and see if someone just happened to lose a coin or something when going over the hill.
The coin site was there, just covered by sand. Found 78 old holed Korean coins, some 1670's, a few early 1800's, but the majority were the nice, larger 2-mun coins, 1743-1752. And among those coins were some of the medium value coins, i.e.
$150.00 - 300.00 per coin. And it took only about 3 hours of digging to find all of the coins. Never had a day like that before or since......but still wishing.

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

By numbers I mean the most of anything you've found on a single day and that hunt will always stick in your mind as be great.

The ones that stick out for me are....

-28 Large coppers (1830 was the newest)

-5 early military buttons (Were Rev War)

-180 Enfield bullets


I don't think I'll beat my copper count, and know I won't find more Enfields, but I do believe some day I will hit a site and find more than 5 early military buttons... and I can't wait to post it!

Well I gotta say thats a number thats gonna be hard to beat on the coppers but ya never can tell IP

 

[birdman]

As far as numbers I would say 32 musket balls on one hunt and also 4 silver coins and five French uniform buttons .That was on a hunt in Germany ....The good ol days. That site turned up about 50 Napleonic uniform buttons over about 6 months of hunting it. I wish I would have found the site 2.5 years eariler when I first got there. Lots of coins and relics and even a few roman items. Had the time of my life.

 

[ironhorse]

I remember digging up like 24 or 25 silvers on a lawn one day, mostly 40's 50's stuff. I spanked Romeo and Patchy one day last spring with 21 coppers one day, that sticks out a bit. And I was stung by 5 wasps in the park once, can't forget that one.
I still would just like to see a big pile of stuff that just came from one of our sites, and just that site, everything....things like that are pretty much impossible the way things come in by dribs and drabs, but that would be impressive, but when a single day is compared to the big picture it is pale, but a really good day doesn't come around that often and I would take one any old time!

 

[romeo-1]

Dug these in a couple hours at a very small and well hunted park!

 

[Iron Patch]

Dug these in a couple hours at a very small and well hunted park!

Did you throw them in the lake on your way out? ...or maybe pay the parking meter?

 

[romeo-1]

Dug these in a couple hours at a very small and well hunted park!

Did you throw them in the lake on your way out? ...or maybe pay the parking meter?

Hey, they were old enough at the time...

 

[Iron Patch]

Dug these in a couple hours at a very small and well hunted park!

Did you throw them in the lake on your way out? ...or maybe pay the parking meter?

Hey, they were old enough at the time...

They still are. I'd go dig some tomorrow if I could.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Good thread..

(9)Coppers was my best day for coins.. not bad in Northern Virginia!

Best day numbers wise was Three Union plates, 20 some mixed NY and Eagle Buttons and well over 300 three ringers...

Second best day was all three issued US plates.. Eagle, Cartridge and US Buckle.. all in a 3 foot square!! Along with a couple finials and a couple dozen three ringers. The cool part about that day was I had been finding Gardners all over the place before I hit the US plates!! Love to know the story about that one!!

MB