Got permission at this cool old house a couple weeks back and have been hunting it for about a week now. Saturday I invited Spike to go with me and we headed out to the house. I decided to hunt an area of the yard that I had not hunted very hard because the land owner told me it was all fill from where the pool was added. I have found a few silver coins at this site but nothing picture worthy. A few minutes into the hunt I hit the buff nickel. Then the finds kept coming. silver washington, $1 trade token, 3 merc dimes,2 sterling silver necklaces (not pictured), a squirrel that followed us every where we went. Some times within 5' of us. Also found some sort on makeup compact thats really cool looking will have to take a pic of it. My favorite find of the day was the button. Any one have a good id on it?
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There can always be a disagreement when people start finding nice things. If I get permission from a property owner to hunt, and they don't say I want some of what you find, then I don't really feel obliged to show them everything. But I can usually tell who would want everything found and if I ever do show someone something and they want it, I give it to them. There is lots more treasure fun to be had anyways. I usually leave them with the thought that they need to carefully prepare the item for preseveration and keep it safe from being lost or ruined. I tell them there is more to treasure hunting than just digging up the finds. There is a responsibility to preserve the finds for future generations. 
Sometimes that sways them, but at least they may take better care of it than to give it to junior to be lost again. 8/ Nice Great Seal button and I think they started that design in 1902?
