Zincoln

Lost Scout,

Glad you landed on the spot and found the goods to convince yourself of that!  Looks like a sheep ear tag you found.  They seem to originate around 1900+/- a few years.  Many will have the year on them.

Hope the good finds keep coming!

Hard to know how long or how often they used the track, but sounded like the general area was used for more than racing!

Zincoln

Wow, an elusive 20c piece.  Those show up almost never.  Congrats on some fine looking history!

A clean troy ounce of gold in two nuggets....I'd say it was a good day.  Maybe all that digging out slowed you down and helped on finding the gold!

Thx for posting this @chiil, and thank you @geotech for the response you shared.  Todd at Centerville got me a factory Sharp display in perfect working order.  Got my display today and replaced in under 30 minutes.  No more backlight defects on the display!  

I did have to rework the foam backing spacers, but it was easy enough to transfer them to the new display with double sticky tape.

Here's to another 10 years or more!

Zincoln

That key date 1886V is in fantastic condition.  That definitely made the trip worthwhile.  Not something you often see!

That is a monster.  Odds of finding anything Spanish in the Northwest is small, so my hat is off to you!  Bet that rings in at the top of the scale!

Welcome aboard fellow Oregonian.  I share your passions...and wish i were closer to the old gold country of Jackson county and surrounding!  

Like Doc....the steelhead bug still bites me!

13 minutes ago, Geologyhound said:

Born in the valley, raised in Coos County, OSU grad (go Beavers!), married and moved to Ohio.   Still have a bunch of Madras thunder eggs and Rabbit Basin sun stones as well as some Holly blue.  So, I still have a bit of Oregon with me.😁

Hey, a fellow Beaver and a coastie!   I never used to get much further south than Tenmile myself.  Funny, I've spent a lot of time roaming around Lakeview, Rabbit basin/Plush and FrenchGlen.  Not a whole lot out there but fresh air and open space!  Ticks and Rattlesnakes seem to thin out the herd😆

22 hours ago, Geologyhound said:

Nice! The only 1909S I ever found was at an old school on the southern Oregon coast.  It wasn’t in very good condition either…

I see you are in Ohio Geologyhound. You make the move back east at some point?  Not much draw on the Southern Oregon coast if you aren't from around the area, other than Hwy 101, the Rouge River and some pretty good looking countryside!  Born and raised on the central Oregon coast myself.

3 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

You can't magic marker a VDB on that baby? 😄 What a nice coin! Any S mint mark on early wheats is a great find. Now you need the S Indians.

Thx HardNox.  I know we are fortunate on the left coast to have more desirable S mints.  I have pulled one 08s IHC in very nice shape...still waiting on the 09s.  Posted it on the coin cleaning thread.

I've started to conclude that SF must have sent the shipment of 1.8M 1909s wheat pennies to Oregon:-)  No doubt many of the early SF coins were shipped to Oregon, Washington, Idaho and NV.   Only have found one 1909 without a mint mark.  

Added the 3rd 1909s wheat to my collection, and the second in the last month.  Been unlucky in that many of my 10s or 13s coins have really been quite clean, but the 09s coins have all suffered a bit in our soil.  

It's no beauty, but still fun to pull a key date.  

5 hours ago, Monte said:

Zincoln, Congratulations on your success that hunted site.    I knew you would be one to put in the time and effort to learn the Deus, and it looks like it is a good fit or your time and patience level.  Keep up the efforts, and I hope the weather starts improving for you.

Monte

Thank you Monte.  Was a pretty easy learning curve as the menu's/options are basically a dumbed down V3i.  Eking out all of the performance took a little time.  

Zincoln

That half is exceptional.  Beauty!   Good for you...had to be a rush!

That is on the my short list of denominations left to find....and I can only hope to happen upon one some day.  Got teased with an 1892 Barber half once....almost not fair.

You can't beat that with a stick.  I think that is right up on there on most detectorists lists of white whales.  Have probably found 50 pockets watches that retained significant portions, and yet to find a silver one, much less gold!

Very well done indeed, and fun to see if one could find the provenance.  Pretty cool this was gifted by employees of TT Co.

Sounds like a fun place....with plenty of potential still there.  Glad you got back out to make some saves!

5 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Good going Zincoln 👍

That sterling collar you dug is from a tobacco pipe, probably an English one whose name escapes me at the moment. Great run you're on!

Could be a Peterson, Dunhill, many makers used silver as an accent piece and and possibly a heat sink.

Thank you for the ID, F350.  Much appreciated. I had also thought mirror or comb, but pipe didn't ring a bell.  Makes perfect sense now.   

7 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Looks like your going to beat F350 on the finds soon.

Good luck on your next hunt and stay out of my area so I can find a few things.

Thank you VL, and i think you are safe😉 Never detected further East than Utah!

I broke my S mint streak and added a D mint barber silver.  1908 D.

The place I've been hunting has seen many, many detectors over the years.  It has seen plenty of use from the early 1900's, and had history into the second half of the 1800s.  Simply seems that with new tech and enough patience, there are always a few more goodies to find.  I've hit this place at least a dozen times in the last 10 years, and I've rarely found a wheat penny.  Finally landed a war nickel last year.   Mind you, I do reasonably well with my equipment in other locations, so I had effectively given up on this one as too few targets to bother with.

When i started posting a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled into a 1909 barber dime...and a buff nickel and several wheats.  This reenergized me to give it a go again in part of the property that  i hadn't hit much in years past.  It's bare of underbrush, so it's easy enough to hit.  Since, I've totaled 4 dimes, 4 buffs, 1 almost indiscernible V just today, 24 wheats (most 1909-1929), and 6 IHCs.  Today I added the barber quarter.  I've must say that I need to give some of the credit to the Deus.  If I'd hit this part of the ground thoroughly with my V3i, I'd have found some of this haul, but I don't think I'd have found all of it.  

The D1 has been doing a nice job of pulling 8" deep nickels and pennies...which is close to the limit of what i've done with the V3i historically in our dirt (9").  And it's so nice that it is so light.  Even the 11" coil I used today was easy enough to swing for 8 hours.  

Now, I think I'll let it sit for a bit and give both the ground an myself a break before i try it again.  The targets a getting much harder to find...but they are still there.  Hit the 1918s merc 2 days ago at 8+".  Just a faint peep.  Have to be more there.  Today the big surprise was the Barber quarter at 4". While there was iron on one side and a tree on the other, the 11" coil fit easily in between and the signal was no mystery....but I didn't believe it.  Could possibly be a shallow silver quarter left.  I just took a quick shover scoop expecting a bottle cap or clad quarter, and out popped one of my favorite coin designs. How on earth did this survive the multitude of detectorists?  Nothing to really hide it or protect it.  Just dumb luck I suppose. 

Also added  a sterling piece today that may have been part of a fountain pen?  It had material inside the cylinder, but i couldn't ID it.  Seems to be wood or tightly wrapped paper with some sort of core....but this piece is likely 100+ years old.  

Get out and hit that permission that went quiet!  We never get it all!  V below appeared to be an 1892 before a light clean up.  

14 hours ago, Tom_in_CA said:

But OF COURSE !   What else do we expect out here on our west coast OTHER than the better S mint coins.  Tsk tsk.  After all, we're closer to SF than to Philly  😍

We may not have had the population centers and the magnitude of history.....but at least we got this little gift!  You certainly have done just fine over the years on both those SF coins and our earliest settlement drops!   

54 minutes ago, Againstmywill said:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/vintage-1950s-hubley-kiddie-toy-red-log-truck-w-l-90-c-37a4386a5a

Neat link.  I did know it was a 'log truck', but hadn't seen this.  I grew up around the big sticks on the west coast, and am used to much larger log trucks....even back then😀

Had 3 hours today, so went back and changed up the reactivity and frequency on the Dues.  No silver, but managed several nice early wheats and an IHC.

That's two 1910s wheats from this spot in the last 10 days.  Thought I had the elusive 1914D today before i cleaned it up, but turned out to be a 1917D.  Others are a 1920s and 1919s.

These are a mottled green color when dug (Some verdigris and some copper/bronze appearance - kinda ugly and unappealing).  I soak em in boiling peroxide, Qtip them clean and then coat them with renaissance wax.  They are all damaged already, so this gives them a more even tone and better detail contrast.

Not trying to abscond with your post Bootscrape. Tell me to start my own if you'd prefer.

Here are the spigots (some polished, some not - really like the ornate one with the valve still there) which may be water, fuel and/or gas, a brass minie ball enfield mold, and a nice Hubley cast car found at a house in the the high Oregon desert (very dry and sandy).  Car is a about 8" long for reference.

14 Million no-S Philadelphia IHP's minted in 1909.  Odds aren't in your favor, but the uncertainty is the killer!

Definitely not the only one.  I keep the ornate and interesting items, and scrap the rest.  Bunch of barrel taps that i find really interesting.  I start with acid magic, then on to a wire wheel on the grinder or the dremel.

Thats a very nice hunt.  Like how 3 bottom coins were tightly grouped in year.  I always get a special kick out of V nickels...not sure why!