Surprising Silver Trifecta

[F350Platinum]

Got this small permission last year, I've hunted it a few times and while I've found quite a few 1900s relics in it, I have only found one silver coin, I think it was a mangled and melted Mercury dime. There should be more, it's never been hunted. I've found lots of wheats and one or two IHPs, maybe a few nickels. It's an incredibly trashy spot where a house was a long time ago.

Historic Aerials has recently put up some new sharp aerial photos of the area dating back to 1961, today I had a pretty good idea of exactly where the house stood and faced, and where the driveway was.

It was a cold start, but ended up being a great detecting day. I randomly walked around, found a few wheats, and dug some other interesting stuff. I used the D2 with 9" coil and Tekkna, I wanted to try it yet again in a tough place.

The afternoon picked up, all of a sudden I got a 91 and dug my first great coin. I stayed in that spot for a long time, it reminded me of my last hunt where I found a lot of stuff in a 5 foot circle.

Tekkna has really opened up my difficult hunting places, I have many. The only downside is that I end up digging a lot of non ferrous junk too, but very little aluminum and nearly no iron.

Here's the trash, really bad today.

Lots of bits and weird brass stuff, wire and shredded things.

Here are my finds, I think I found the clothesline, because I kept finding wheats and nickels, ended up with quite a few, and a lot of other cool stuff like bits of jewelry:

And I didn't expect to, but came home with 3 silver coins:

Using Tekkna really paid off today! 🥳 Nickel, dime, and quarter, all silver.

I "juiced" the USMC 6-point coat button, and got another surprise:

There's still quite a bit of gold on it, it's a nice two piece. 

[Chase Goldman]

Nice saves. 

What's the vintage of the USMC button?  Funny those two keys are broken in an almost identical manner, they look like twins.

Like the Baptist Sunday School souvenir pin.

[F350Platinum]

10 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

Nice saves. 

What's the vintage of the USMC button?  Funny those two keys broken in an almost identical manner? 

Like the Baptist Sunday School souvenir pin.

Thanks Chase,

It was rewarding to go back to this place with a program on V2, the Deus is massively better now. I couldn't believe how precisely it identified objects, how deep some of them were, or how it picked them out despite their proximity to iron. I tried relic a bit but Tekkna was better at it.

The button book puts the USMC button as post Civil War, 1880-1893. I dug a couple of late 1800s IHPs here so that's about right. There's a GS button as well, I'll have to look more into that but it's pretty shot.

The keys weren't too far apart, either. 🤔

[Valens Legacy]

Nice hunting again and glad for the saves.

Good luck on your next hunt, stay safe out there.

[ColonelDan]

Another great hunt my friend!   That button was the keeper of the day....👍

[F350Platinum]

17 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Nice hunting again and glad for the saves.

Good luck on your next hunt, stay safe out there.

Thanks VL,

I was just going to look around there for a little while, but the coins kept me going. There is another permission just down the road that is very similar with trash.

[F350Platinum]

6 minutes ago, ColonelDan said:

Another great hunt my friend!   That button was the keeper of the day....👍

Thanks Colonel,

I'm mostly partial to buttons myself, if for nothing other than their uniqueness and researching them later 🙂 surgically pulling silver coins out of all that junk showed me that I'm really getting to know my detector.