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Well, my pal Hockeyguy and I went to a big park upstate today, and spent several hours up there hunting. I managed to get two good finds which is a relief after a few weeks drought, the rest of the finds were clad, pull tabs, oh and screw on tops, and did I mention pull tabs, and bottle caps.. and finished up the day finding more pull tabs :grin:
seriously, my first goody looks like it belongs as a military button, but it came out of the ground flat like a coin..
The second by a huge old tree was a copper, certainly a large cent but I'm hoping for a colonial coin.. the mineral oil will let us know soon.. Hopefully, there will be something under that dirt. The copper was only 3.5 inches deep but was under some roots, and obviously someone else tried to dig it as all the big roots were already cut and they apparantly gave up.. they were off center by just a couple inches.. so they did all the real hard work and I got the pay off.
seriously, my first goody looks like it belongs as a military button, but it came out of the ground flat like a coin..
The second by a huge old tree was a copper, certainly a large cent but I'm hoping for a colonial coin.. the mineral oil will let us know soon.. Hopefully, there will be something under that dirt. The copper was only 3.5 inches deep but was under some roots, and obviously someone else tried to dig it as all the big roots were already cut and they apparantly gave up.. they were off center by just a couple inches.. so they did all the real hard work and I got the pay off.
