Digger_O'Dell
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Hi all,
Got out for a long days hunt Wednesday after work. Started at a vacant city lot along some abandoned rail lines that used to be part of a major rail hub with lots of factories and warehouses as far back as the early 1800s. Much had been dug put and removed over the years, but one good find was a watch case marked with "four holes jeweled" and M.J. Tobias, Liverpool. Did a little research and found that they did a lot of gold watches along with some good railroad time pieces. The four jeweled style had the holes for the winder, (shown) and the one example I found dates around 1825. :happydance01:
Later in the morning I decided to check on the progress of a street tearout I have been waiting a couple month on. Lucky day, they were pulling up sidewalk slabs! So I started detecting as they were pulled. I wasn't getting much at first, but soon popped the first of 4 Indians of the day. It didn't take long though until many more people showed up to detect. Sure enough, also met Milco there!
At that point it was a scramble to get coins. Mostay I hung back and got what everyone else missed in their rush. It was also difficult ground conditions because back in the day they laid the sidewalks with coal ash and "klinkers" left from heating the schools. Of coarse it had a lot of metals in those remnants making for terrible detecting. Even the CTX was only running a 6 to 8 sensitivity in auto, so easy to miss even surface coins.
They are: 1887, 1887, 1892, and 1900
I had not been expecting to detect all day, so had not charged the batteries. The machine started dying about 2:30 so made one last attempt before heading home. At the edge of the last slab pulled, I got a good 12-43. I figured due to the location and VDI that it was another zincoln, but decided to nab it anyway. I dug about a half inch down and got a smooth shiny round thing. I thought no way was this a coin, it's too smooth and thin. But i washed it up and saw the "one dime" on back. Upon closer examination of the front, I saw a faint outline of the seated lady liberty, and a more pronounced date of 1875-my 2nd seated dime, and the only silver found on thst site all day!
On the way into work Friday I stopped at an old abandoned ball field in hopes of more old coins. Nope, just very modern clad. But i did find a pretty cool token!
Thanks for reading,GL&HH!
Got out for a long days hunt Wednesday after work. Started at a vacant city lot along some abandoned rail lines that used to be part of a major rail hub with lots of factories and warehouses as far back as the early 1800s. Much had been dug put and removed over the years, but one good find was a watch case marked with "four holes jeweled" and M.J. Tobias, Liverpool. Did a little research and found that they did a lot of gold watches along with some good railroad time pieces. The four jeweled style had the holes for the winder, (shown) and the one example I found dates around 1825. :happydance01:
Later in the morning I decided to check on the progress of a street tearout I have been waiting a couple month on. Lucky day, they were pulling up sidewalk slabs! So I started detecting as they were pulled. I wasn't getting much at first, but soon popped the first of 4 Indians of the day. It didn't take long though until many more people showed up to detect. Sure enough, also met Milco there!
At that point it was a scramble to get coins. Mostay I hung back and got what everyone else missed in their rush. It was also difficult ground conditions because back in the day they laid the sidewalks with coal ash and "klinkers" left from heating the schools. Of coarse it had a lot of metals in those remnants making for terrible detecting. Even the CTX was only running a 6 to 8 sensitivity in auto, so easy to miss even surface coins.
They are: 1887, 1887, 1892, and 1900
I had not been expecting to detect all day, so had not charged the batteries. The machine started dying about 2:30 so made one last attempt before heading home. At the edge of the last slab pulled, I got a good 12-43. I figured due to the location and VDI that it was another zincoln, but decided to nab it anyway. I dug about a half inch down and got a smooth shiny round thing. I thought no way was this a coin, it's too smooth and thin. But i washed it up and saw the "one dime" on back. Upon closer examination of the front, I saw a faint outline of the seated lady liberty, and a more pronounced date of 1875-my 2nd seated dime, and the only silver found on thst site all day!
On the way into work Friday I stopped at an old abandoned ball field in hopes of more old coins. Nope, just very modern clad. But i did find a pretty cool token!
Thanks for reading,GL&HH!
