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    Intact Westerwald mug and other Colonial relics found today.

    Me and my mentor went to the low country today and dug these relics from a mill pond...team effort today...Name:  ecol 1.jpg
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    Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
    Trust in the Lord...

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    WOW!! Were you diving? ..or was the water low? Really cool finds! I'd really like to find a pipe one day.
    On Instagram- oxshoedrew

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    Man talk about some nice finds all the glass still in one piece
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    WOW, Onion bottles! What an amazing haul of colonial relics. What does the GR stand for?
    Oldest Coin: 100-60 BC Gallic bronze coin (Sequani Tribe)
    Oldest Silver Coin: 1156 hammered Pfennig from (now) Bavaria
    Oldest U.S. coin: 1805 Draped Bust Large Cent
    Best Coins EVER: 1625 4 Sols from Kingdom of Chateau Renaud, France
    1662 15 Kreuzers, Leopold I, Austria
    Best Relics: Bronze Age Arrowheads & Spearhead, 2c Roman silver ring, complete medieval knight's spur (x6)
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    Shallow water hunting. Killed my Nox as it leaked but it was worth it. Got up to about neck deep.
    Quote Originally Posted by OxShoeDrew View Post
    WOW!! Were you diving? ..or was the water low? Really cool finds! I'd really like to find a pipe one day.
    Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
    Trust in the Lord...

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    George
    Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
    Trust in the Lord...

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    Amazing finds! For us uneducated saps, can you tell us the approximate age of the mug and bottles?
    Lifetime totals:
    10 Large Cents, 415 Indian Heads, 2 Two Cent Pieces, 1 Capped Bust Half Dime, 1 Seated Half Dime, 10 Shield Nickels, 68 V Nickels, 124 Buffalo Nickels, 31 War Nickels, 16 Seated Dimes, 131 Barber Dimes, 405 Mercury Dimes, 249 Rosies, 4 Seated Quarters, 18 Barber Quarters, 20 Standing Liberty Quarters, 89 Silver Washingtons, 1 Seated Half, 3 Barber Halves, 16 Walking Liberty Halves

    YouTube Channel: Tony Two-Cent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmz...RlHTBIU42bUORg

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    1760S and before ..
    Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
    Trust in the Lord...

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    Quote Originally Posted by calabash digger View Post
    Shallow water hunting. Killed my Nox as it leaked but it was worth it. Got up to about neck deep.
    It leaked???!!! Sending it back?
    On Instagram- oxshoedrew

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    YOW! What a great bunch of finds Calabash. I'd be drinking beer out of that mug and maybe even smoking something out of that pipe to celebrate that haul.
    Oldest find: 5,000 year old copper spearhead
    Oldest coin: 1699 William III halfpenny
    Purdiest coin: 1832 Capped Bust quarter
    Coolest find: USA button with blue threads still on shank

    "He who would search for pearls must dive below."

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    Sent it off today..
    Quote Originally Posted by OxShoeDrew View Post
    It leaked???!!! Sending it back?
    Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
    Trust in the Lord...

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    The "Georgius Rex" stien is incredible CD definitely museum quality sir !! I love the rainbowed hues to the dutch onion all great recoveries !!
    "Honesty is an expensive gift ,
    so don't expect it from cheap people"

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    Thanks Del it was a epic hunt . The Stien is the find of the day . It went home with my mentor... It was his site and we put a team effort in pulling the relics out but at the end of the day the find of the day went to him.
    Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
    Trust in the Lord...

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    I got the axe cooking in the bin now its going to be a knockout piece hanging on my wall.
    Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
    Trust in the Lord...

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    Stunning bottles and stein! Wow!
    XP Deus

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    I'd resume using that mug!!

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