What Do Lady Liberty, A Buffalo, And King James Have In Common? (return Update)

[F350Platinum]

Heh, snazzy title huh? Let's find out... 🤔

Yesterday I got a new permission, an enviable one for sure, but to quote the owner, "it's been detected about 150 times" 😪 I've heard that before from other landowners and still came away with something.

I also mentioned the beach I was hunting, and he told me he and his son own some property near there, but I would have to ask him if I could go there.

I called him this morning, and he was very nice and told me to go ahead. He said turkey season is about to start so I'd better get in there ASAP. He didn't have to tell me twice. 😀

The farm is about 50 acres, half of it wooded at least. There was a house there, a small one with a cinder block foundation. Very overgrown and difficult to hunt because there is junk everywhere.

There must be a dump behind the house, these were right on top of the leaves:

Mostly newer bottles, didn't spend a lot of time there.

The fields are divided by ditches, so I searched each one, hunting the "Turn Zone" at each end and zig zagging the field to see if I could find a hotspot.

It started out nice this morning but went downhill in the afternoon. 63 became 54. 😵 The first field by the road was unproductive but it got better and better.

First thing I found was this nice rein guide, at that moment I knew at least I'd find some 19th century stuff:

It was as expected in the part of the field where they turn the animals.

Next was this D buckle:

Not impressive but in keeping with my observations.

As I got away from the first 30-50 feet I got a solid 58 on the edge of the field and this came up:

1898 "V" nickel in pretty good shape for this area, they're always trashed but sometimes you get a date. 👍

That was it for that division, next field was much larger. Went to the far turn zone and got another 58, and this came up:

1936(8) Buffalo nickel with a readable date! Yay.

Must have been in pretty good shape when it was lost.

Began my zigzag of the last field, hoping there might be a silver coin, but I wasn't prepared for this at all. I found this 3 feet away from it, and knew the game had changed.

I've found a few of these lately, and before I get to the main event...

I have a detecting buddy who makes all kinds of innovative and cool stuff, he's a real genius and I respect him a lot more than he knows. At Christmas last year he sent me and a couple of other guys one of these:

A cast 4 leaf clover that we all put on our gear. I'm not a superstitious person, but since I put that thing on my finds bag, my silver count has gone up, I dug a 1694 Scottish Twopence, and I'm not even digging much junk 🤣 It was said the Twopence was the find of a lifetime, but it just got beat today.

Got a sweet sounding 75 while at the edge of this last field, and dug this, I got it identified by my other good pal @dogodogwho I really miss on this forum, he's a hell of a person and a great detectorist:

Half of a 1607 Hammered King James 1 silver Sixpence.

At first I thought it was Spanish, but my buddy jumped on it and got the correct ID:

Good Lord, never in my life did I think I'd find something like this! 😅

Well there ya have it, Lady Liberty, a Buffalo, and King James, all in a field.

Trash was nothing.

I think one of the pull tabs is very old, maybe Mary Queen of Scots... 🤣

 

[schoolofhardNox]

Awesome on the hammered coin. That is one sweet silver coin. With all that area available, you would need a group of detectorists to cover it for a year before it was slightly hunted out 😄 Nice finds that we don't get here very often.

[GB_Amateur]

45 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

1938 Buffalo nickel with a readable date! Yay.

Got to you early this time.    1936?  The only 1938 Buffie had a -D mintmark and yours has none.  (It would be under and between the 'E' in FIVE and 'C' in CENTS if it had a mintmark.)

Pretty cool cut coin find!  Are you close to Jamestown or other early Virginia Colonial settlements?

[F350Platinum]

8 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Awesome on the hammered coin. That is one sweet silver coin. With all that area available, you would need a group of detectorists to cover it for a year before it was slightly hunted out 😄 Nice finds that we don't get here very often.

Thanks, this is a small field, a brand new permission I got this morning. As I was leaving someone was shooting nearby so I guess turkey season has started... 😅 I agree though, I do have a lot of acres to go. 🙂

[F350Platinum]

3 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

Got to you early this time.    1936?  The only 1938 Buffie had a -D mintmark and yours has none.  (It would be under and between the 'E' in FIVE and 'C' in CENTS if it had a mintmark.)

Pretty cool cut coin find!  Are you close to Jamestown or other early Virginia Colonial settlements?

So glad you're there to correct me GB, thanks. 👍 🏆 I post before I research sometimes, this was a banner day. 🥳

Per my "contract" with my wife, a dinner in proportion to the find is forthcoming, thankfully she didn't want to go tonight. 😀 

Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg are mere peninsulas away. This peninsula was settled in the early 1600s by folks dissatisfied with Lords Baltimore and Calvert, they crossed the Potomac the other way and set up a life here. It's a very quiet and undeveloped area but is home to many famous people, at least their birthplace. It's very un-famous I guess.

Can't believe I got a hammered silver coin before I got some of the newer coins. 🤔 But the first coin bits I ever dug here were cut pistareens. 😎

 

[Rick N. MI]

Wow, just incredible finds.

[F350Platinum]

7 minutes ago, Rick N. MI said:

Wow, just incredible finds.

Thanks Rick!

As I've stated, the Deus 2 is "king" in Virginia. 😀 Most of the day I was just swinging the detector, then bam, then back to walking and swinging. Walking on corn stalks is an extra element of difficulty. 😵

The back two fields are pretty devoid of can slaw and junk, but it's a lot of quiet time, and without the lightest detector there is it would be a chore. It's not that I wouldn't find this with any SMF, or any other detector really, but less trash, more finds, and not wearing myself out is a bonus. 👍

[kac]

When you start picking up viking coins I think I might have a stroke. Way to go!

[F350Platinum]

11 minutes ago, kac said:

When you start picking up viking coins I think I might have a stroke. Way to go!

Haha, I think I might too. For all we know Captain John Smith himself probably crapped there, got scared by some natives or a wolf, and broke his belt running away. 🤣

[Joe D.]

   Awsome run again!🍀 Can you bottle some of that luck, and send it my way!?😁

    Seriously though, I'd say location is key, but in your case, location aside, your hard work of mining land owners is the "secret" to your success! There are probably very few of us out there that have had the luck, and ba$$s big enough, to ask as much as you do for permissions! You earned it!!

   Keep up the good work!! "May the clover be with you"!! (And it is, literally)!🍀👍👍