New Year's Eve Relic Hunt Time Machine

[Chase Goldman]

It's been a while since I posted some finds.  It has been a productive fall relic season for me, so that isn't the reason.  Perhaps too much focus on the new machines that are about to make a splash in the detecting community and other distractions big and small.  Anyway - on Friday Bob (F350Platinum) again graciously let me invite myself down his way again for some last minute 2021 detecting at a new permission he has been surveying.  He wrote about it here.  I got a late start so Bob had already had a chance to snag some finds in another part of the farm.  After Bob kept me from driving my SUV into the local pond and then a short chat with the landowner, we were off swinging.  We moved into the direction of the farmhouse, reckoning that the Colonial finds would concentrate towards the house.  We crossed a couple of promising spots that were giving up telltale older relics (buttons, brass buckles) but they dried up as we crossed into a greener, muddier portion of the field.  So we circled back the the "hot" spots and focused in those areas.  Was swinging the Nox with the 11" coil, which was a change up from my recent hunts sticking with the Nox 5x10 that I have really bonded with.  Anyway, was looking for a little more coverage and depth and with the targets few and far between.  After recovering a few buttons and a nice D Buckle and a some modern trash (shotgun shells, can slaw), I got a nice solid, borderline 20/21 hit.  Thinking IHP or some heavy brass, I flipped the plug, and the pinpointer zeroed in on a non-descript small, dark, flat, oval-shaped target.  Perhaps a medal or pendant of some sort. Definitely, not a coin, so I thought.  As I cleaned it off, it started to look like silver.  Ok, cool a silver pendant/medal.  I flipped it over, saw the off-center Jerusalem Cross, and immediately realized I had just dug my first Spanish Cob.  1/2 Reale weight.  Bob and I researched and it appears to be a Mexico City Cob minted during the reign of King Charles II  1663-1699.  My first Cob about 30 miles south of where Bob fount his first Cob when we last hunted together.  Some nice colonial buttons and other odds and ends (including 2 unidentifiable copper or brass disks that are not old coppers or tokens) from the 12/31 hunt and our previous get together a few weeks ago.  

Thanks for letting me enjoy a little of your detecting paradise, Bob.  See you again in 2022.  I think more great finds in store as you've just scratched the surface on your new sites.

Happy New Year Everyone!

 

 

 

 

[F350Platinum]

Chase for the win! I am so glad you got some Spanish silver! Next up is one of those gold Escudos... 😀 There's a lot of ground to cover.

[abenson]

Nice Spanish silver! Sounds like you had a great time.

[ROCKINGCM]

Epic hunt all around.   Does Bob ever sleep or eat maybe take a drink?  Seems he is always detecting. 😂

[Chase Goldman]

9 minutes ago, ROCKINGCM said:

Epic hunt all around.   Does Bob ever sleep or eat maybe take a drink?  Seems he is always detecting. 😂

Retirement is bliss.  All those things you mentioned just take up valuable detecting time.

[Cal_Cobra]

Nice hunt, I'd love to find a cob!

[F350Platinum]

You always seem to find the fancier buttons... 🤔 I gotta stop dropping them. 🤣

[NCtoad]

Congrats on the Spanish silver!   I knew there had to be some old silver on that site…I didn’t think it would be that old though!  

[F350Platinum]

18 minutes ago, NCtoad said:

Congrats on the Spanish silver!   I knew there had to be some old silver on that site…I didn’t think it would be that old though!  

This area was incorporated in the 1630s. This family has owned this property for hundreds of years, it's right in the center of "town". Quite the place! 🙂

[Valens Legacy]

Congrats on the nice hunting, one of these days I will be back out there to get some of those items myself.

Good luck on your next hunt.