strick Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 9 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said: Love that Civil War era San Francisco minted seated quarter ? Nice assortment of military buttons. What period are they, WWI? Yes I was reading about that quarter, there was an article on line...The buttons are from an old WWII camp covered by houses now. I used to hunt jack rabbits around what was left of the old barracks when I was a kid...it was all open fields back then....god how I wish I was into metal detecting back then...that would have been around 1978 (I was 15 years old) Here is another item that I found on christmas eve morning...it is paper thin...at first I thought it was a flattened coin...but it was so light that it did not make sense...It was bent in half and dirty so I carefully made it flat again and then tumbled over night...I already knew it was silver because it was so hard...the reverse side has an angel with someone below her...the pic is blurry on that one...I love finding these types of things. It is a little bigger then a dime in diameter. strick 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn in CO Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 36 minutes ago, strick said: Yes I was reading about that quarter, there was an article on line...The buttons are from an old WWII camp covered by houses now. I used to hunt jack rabbits around what was left of the old barracks when I was a kid...it was all open fields back then....god how I wish I was into metal detecting back then...that would have been around 1978 (I was 15 years old) Here is another item that I found on christmas eve morning...it is paper thin...at first I thought it was a flattened coin...but it was so light that it did not make sense...It was bent in half and dirty so I carefully made it flat again and then tumbled over night...I already knew it was silver because it was so hard...the reverse side has an angel with someone below her...the pic is blurry on that one...I love finding these types of things. It is a little bigger then a dime in diameter. strick We find these religious medallions quite often in old coal mining camps than anywhere else. Most of the one we find are made out of aluminum and some silver. Nice find! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendell Clark Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 All great stuff...that quarter is over the top though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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