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I first posted this in coinshooting forum by mistake. Got out to do some land hunting for the first time and came up with a couple of bat wing buckles, a hallmarked silver buckle, an old railroad tag and a cut colonial copper. Don't know much about the buckles, but it's my first hallmarked...

Got out to do some land hunting for the first time and came up with a couple of bat wing buckles, a hallmarked silver buckle, an old railroad tag and a cut colonial copper. Don't know much about the buckles, but it's my first hallmarked silver buckle. I've seen the bat wings turn up, but don't...

Here's the scoop. On Connecticut coppers one of the fastest ways to narrow down the variety is by the legends and punctuation. Once you narrow it down, the location of liberty's branch hand on the reverse, where it points and where the branch points are the next thing you go to. I narrowed down...

Going through old posts and never saw an attribution for the Connecticut. What makes this piece a lot easier to identify is the fact that it has periods instead of colons in the legends. It appears to be a 1787 M.32.2-X.1. I have 2 pieces with this reverse die, a M.30-X.1 (formerly owned by Dr...

I haven't been out swinging my detector since I found those 6 large cents in one day. Snow and cold weather set in big time. I was talking to someone from the water department the other day and he said the frost is down 18". I was going stir crazy and wanted to go out detecting so I thought...

I started out more than 30 years ago when you could go to any park or school yard and come away with multiple silver coins. Over the last couple of years I started to focus on old home sites that may now be wooded areas as well as getting permission to hunt around old homes and farms. I pulled...

Got permission to detect a farm today that's been in the same family since the 1790's. Found one small area that was hot with large cents and pulled 6. 1817, 1822, 1827, 1831, one matron head with no date and one classic head with no date. Also found a little silver. I hunted about an acre or so...

I think Del is right on the CT and Vermont. I've scanned in my own 33.37-Z.9 for you to take a look. I could scan in my Ryder 2 also, but it's not as balanced as it appears to suffer from a strike through error. As for the mule, 99% of George III and a lot of the George II pieces you find are...