Isaac
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Well yesterday was a day that I had dreamt of for a while. I was really starting to contemplate whether I was going to pull an 1800s silver by the end of the year... well... Screw 1800s silver!!!
My dad picked me up right from school, it was a beautiful day, we both wanted to hit the 1824 house again that's about a half hour drive... it was well worth it. While in the car I told him I'm going to dig old silver coinage today...
I got to the house site and the WHOLE day I worked slowly on picking out iffy signals with the 5x8 small DD coil out from iron... in a 30x20 foot area on the left side of the front of the house... it paid off pretty nicely.
This is the area I hit today.
The first signal I got I started gridding horizontally from the front of the house down to the road. My first signal was a very faint high tone... this turned out to be a nice Bucky ball. In the next strip of land to grid is where the coins came out. I first get a choppy signal with a little squeak mixed in. First I pull a plug out and dig two nails... couldn't find the alleged high tone so I assumed it was junk. I closed the plug up and got the higher tone separated again and found a green penny sized coin. This was a 1911 wheat cent. I keep heading down that little grid and bam a solid but faint coin hit. Turned out to be another green disk which this time was an Indian head, an 1865 to boot... bent, but I still love it! Then I get a blip of a signal... high tone blip 64-80 VDI I do a live dig on this one, there was not much iron next to this signal. I open the hole up and don't get a single hit with the Pro pointer. Assuming it was complete junk I turn the camera off and then was about to close the hole up when I see silver... the worlds smallest pizza slice!
I knew immediately what I had and my heart I think missed a beat... it was a freakin piece of eight!!! An eighth of a two reales - would've been 3.125 cents!!! Man that was an amazing feeling!!! I texted my dad a pic and told him to come ASAP! I wish he was there with me, he was getting gas quick...
After that I go onto my third pass picking up another wheat penny and I get a mid tone and it turns out to be 20 shards of aluminum can in one hole all separated so I had to pinpoint each one :girlcry: then after I get all the aluminum trash out I get a high tone 76 signal and it turns out to be this gorgeous flat button. Gold guilt was preserved well.
I get another signal and that turns out to be a musketball ... I can't believe I missed all this the first time I came here. The next diggable signal was the crappiest most iffy signal ringing up from iron in one direction and 60s in the other... I pull out a few nails from that hole and when I think I'm pulling out another nail I see a green disk roll past and see the shield. I thought I had another two cent piece at this point but then thought it could've been a shield nickel, my first ... well it rang up a solid nickel on my machine... so yes!!! my first shield nickel. Too bad it's super worn but I can finally cross that off my list
As I get closer to the road the signals start to deplete. I got a nice mid tone signal very faint once again... turned out to be this little two piece cuff button! I thought it was an eagle at first but it's a star.
It's starting to get dark now but I get one last signal right next to the road... another iffy one of course but it's not iron for a fact. I dug down in the hole and pulled out, you guessed it, a nail :/ but then I hear a solid mid tone after I pull that nail out... it was pretty shallow at 2" but when I saw it I knew immediately I had GOLD!!!! Wooooooo!!! Finally!!! It's definitely old gold too! It's a very fancy pocket watch winder!
I don't know. But man this day was awesome!!! I'm still shaking
Any ideas on what age this piece if?
[FONT=verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Upon James (RIDirtDigger) helping me with the dating, he concluded this was a Phillip V (first reign) from 1700-1724!!!!! Makes my new oldest coin by over 100 years!!! This coin very well could be over 300 years old!!! My first colonial silver ever!!!!!!!! So stoked right now!!!!!!! [/FONT]:happy::happy:[FONT=verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]:yahoo::yahoo::bananadance::happydance01:
Thanks for reading everyone. Good luck and Happy hunting!!!
My dad picked me up right from school, it was a beautiful day, we both wanted to hit the 1824 house again that's about a half hour drive... it was well worth it. While in the car I told him I'm going to dig old silver coinage today...
I got to the house site and the WHOLE day I worked slowly on picking out iffy signals with the 5x8 small DD coil out from iron... in a 30x20 foot area on the left side of the front of the house... it paid off pretty nicely.
This is the area I hit today.
The first signal I got I started gridding horizontally from the front of the house down to the road. My first signal was a very faint high tone... this turned out to be a nice Bucky ball. In the next strip of land to grid is where the coins came out. I first get a choppy signal with a little squeak mixed in. First I pull a plug out and dig two nails... couldn't find the alleged high tone so I assumed it was junk. I closed the plug up and got the higher tone separated again and found a green penny sized coin. This was a 1911 wheat cent. I keep heading down that little grid and bam a solid but faint coin hit. Turned out to be another green disk which this time was an Indian head, an 1865 to boot... bent, but I still love it! Then I get a blip of a signal... high tone blip 64-80 VDI I do a live dig on this one, there was not much iron next to this signal. I open the hole up and don't get a single hit with the Pro pointer. Assuming it was complete junk I turn the camera off and then was about to close the hole up when I see silver... the worlds smallest pizza slice!
I knew immediately what I had and my heart I think missed a beat... it was a freakin piece of eight!!! An eighth of a two reales - would've been 3.125 cents!!! Man that was an amazing feeling!!! I texted my dad a pic and told him to come ASAP! I wish he was there with me, he was getting gas quick...
After that I go onto my third pass picking up another wheat penny and I get a mid tone and it turns out to be 20 shards of aluminum can in one hole all separated so I had to pinpoint each one :girlcry: then after I get all the aluminum trash out I get a high tone 76 signal and it turns out to be this gorgeous flat button. Gold guilt was preserved well.
I get another signal and that turns out to be a musketball ... I can't believe I missed all this the first time I came here. The next diggable signal was the crappiest most iffy signal ringing up from iron in one direction and 60s in the other... I pull out a few nails from that hole and when I think I'm pulling out another nail I see a green disk roll past and see the shield. I thought I had another two cent piece at this point but then thought it could've been a shield nickel, my first ... well it rang up a solid nickel on my machine... so yes!!! my first shield nickel. Too bad it's super worn but I can finally cross that off my list
As I get closer to the road the signals start to deplete. I got a nice mid tone signal very faint once again... turned out to be this little two piece cuff button! I thought it was an eagle at first but it's a star.
It's starting to get dark now but I get one last signal right next to the road... another iffy one of course but it's not iron for a fact. I dug down in the hole and pulled out, you guessed it, a nail :/ but then I hear a solid mid tone after I pull that nail out... it was pretty shallow at 2" but when I saw it I knew immediately I had GOLD!!!! Wooooooo!!! Finally!!! It's definitely old gold too! It's a very fancy pocket watch winder!
I don't know. But man this day was awesome!!! I'm still shaking Any ideas on what age this piece if?
[FONT=verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Upon James (RIDirtDigger) helping me with the dating, he concluded this was a Phillip V (first reign) from 1700-1724!!!!! Makes my new oldest coin by over 100 years!!! This coin very well could be over 300 years old!!! My first colonial silver ever!!!!!!!! So stoked right now!!!!!!! [/FONT]:happy::happy:[FONT=verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]:yahoo::yahoo::bananadance::happydance01:
Thanks for reading everyone. Good luck and Happy hunting!!!
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