A Little Bit Of Silver Today

[F350Platinum]

Living in Virginia can be interesting in the winter, one day it's below 30, and the next you're in a t-shirt. 😀 I feel for the original settlers, they must have had a rough time.

It hit 65 today. Odd for January 2, but I'll take it. 😀 Today I met Chase at this field, he was pretty sure we would find something here despite being disappointed before, but it wasn't disappointing today. We both had Deus 2s, me with my 13" and him with the 11".

He made a pretty impressive find or two, but I'll just post mine and as usual invite him to jump in if he feels like it. It was kinda a celebration of his retirement this past week. 🏆

Time for the gratuitous detector pic, that's Chase way out there, this field is pretty big and has high potential for colonial relics due to its location.

I did pretty well, even got some silver. (Sort of):

1943 P war nickel. I was quite surprised to find it here, the Deus reported a 74 I think.

The rest of the story is the usual suspects, got 3 coins and a few buttons:

Top left is an oval stud of some sort, top right another collar stud. I didn't know these weren't rivets until recently 😀 A couple wheats, old button with some gold still on it, two ball buttons, and a broken two piece that says Holmes Pritchard Co. on the back. Can't make out the top pattern. 😵

At first I thought the bottom coin looking thing was a half reale, it had a waxy feel and looked like it was originally round. 🤔 I have found one in this condition:

Ended up only weighing .3g, and it's the size of a seated half dime which weighs 1g. I think it's a hammered Roman pull tab. 🤣 Great fun with a great guest.

Trash was about average, don't want people thinking we don't dig a lot of crap! 😀

I don't dig much iron, the D2 rarely falses on it. 👍

[Joe D.]

   Beautiful day to hunt Bob! And a good day for a buddy hunt! I did one too!! (Thanks PI Man👍)!!

   And for Chase, congratulations on your retirement🎉🏆! Now you can relax, and enjoy life a bit more!🍀👍 And good job on your finds; both of you!👍👍

[Valens Legacy]

Very good hunt and I know that you had some nice weather to be outside in.

Good luck on your next outing and stay safe.

[locator]

Nice weather & digging and found good things along the way. What else to expect?

Great going, F350Platinum.

[F350Platinum]

8 hours ago, Joe D. said:

good job on your finds; both of you!👍

Thanks Joe D, if it's warm here I can imagine what it's like there 😀

 

5 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Very good hunt and I know that you had some nice weather to be outside in.

Thanks VL, We just got over a near zero weekend, Christmas was rough. It was great to get outside like it was spring, but we know better. 😀

 

4 hours ago, locator said:

Great going, F350Platinum

Thanks, not much this time but I managed to get another 100 acre farm permission out of it talking to the owner. 🥳 You really have to grid this field, random hunting usually brings up nothing. It's about 20 acres, 33 with woods.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Looks like a great day for a hunt! Congrats on the War Nickel, Wheaties and old buttons, and specially the hammered Roman pull tab, those are even more rare than the Civil War ring pull you found! 😉 Well done!

 

[F350Platinum]

7 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Looks like a great day for a hunt! Congrats on the War Nickel, Wheaties and old buttons, and specially the hammered Roman pull tab, those are even more rare than the Civil War ring pull you found! 😉 Well done!

 

Thanks Cap'n! 🤣

We really thought it was silver at first, definitely thick and had a waxy feel. Did some tests and size comparisons and nope. 😵

Still had to buy my wife dinner for the nickel tho. 😁

[George Kinsey]

Looks like a worn Spanish half reale.