It was a dandy kinda day

[BTV Digger]

Hi folks,

Well, the snow has FINALLY melted in the Champlain Valley and the ground has thawed enough that I bit the bullet yesterday by enduring 40 mph wind gusts for my first hunt of the year. It's been too long (last hunt on Dec 1, 2018). Joined up with a new detecting friend I recently met and in talking with him discovered we share several old permissions in a town south of me about 45 minutes. We hit 3 new sites, then returned to my honey field from last year to wrap the day up. All and all about 6 hours of hunting. The second site proved most productive and coughed up several nice silver-washed dandy buttons and my first copper of the year - a no-date KG II Hibernia half penny. Of course, the old honey hole gave me 5 more buttons (that place never seems to completely dry up), one which had a nice little Star of David pattern on it. Lots of "dots on the map" to check out over the coming 6 weeks before the crops get planted. Definitely looking forward to another productive year! Thanks for taking a look.

John

 

[aloldstuff]

nice to see that you're able to detect. Congrats on the 1st copper of the year. funny how we tend to go to the "honey holes".

 

[The Rebel]

Those are great finds! Love the silver buttons & star of David one.

 

[Full Metal Digger]

Amazing finds! Wow! Are you going to get that dime graded and slabbed? Congrats, I love the dandy buttons.

 

[DavidGC]

Looks like you're starting this year where you left off last year. Nice finds.

Still over a foot of snow over here in the Northeast Kingdom. It's killing me!

 

[BTV Digger]

Thanks guys! You know, upon closer examination I noticed the letters "UL" at 3 o'clock to the right of KG's head. Those letters aren't in the standard KG 2 hibernias (should say REX II) and in digging a little deeper it seems likely it's a mid-1700s KG 2 Irish Evasion counterfeit copper. I don't care either way - just glad I could correct the ID.

John

 

[5thfret]

Congrats! That's a nice old copper and a great way to start the year.

 

[del]

An evasion copper would be better than just a Hibernia in my opinion , great hunt as usual John . Glad the tundra has finally started to melt for you .

One of these days I may have to head up there to the Champlain area to site see and do some detecting.

Dan

 

[Lodge Scent]

Nice hunt John. Great way to thaw out those detecting muscles. I'm with Dan, an evasion copper is extra cool. I like that button too.

 

[OxShoeDrew]

Are you going to get that dime graded and slabbed?

I had to scroll up to see where a missed some special dime. :lol:

That's a wonderful start to the year, John! What is the holed thing above the "dime?" Tool tag? WTG! :congrats:

 

[BTV Digger]

An evasion copper would be better than just a Hibernia in my opinion , great hunt as usual John . Glad the tundra has finally started to melt for you .

One of these days I may have to head up there to the Champlain area to site see and do some detecting.

Dan

Dan, you're welcome any time. Plenty of places to try up here for sure.

Nice hunt John. Great way to thaw out those detecting muscles. I'm with Dan, an evasion copper is extra cool. I like that button too.

For sure Jeff! The wait is too long up here!

I had to scroll up to see where a missed some special dime. :lol:

That's a wonderful start to the year, John! What is the holed thing above the "dime?" Tool tag? WTG! :congrats:

Thanks Drew. OMG, the silver holed thingy is a 1971 dog tag and my heart breaker of the day. Dug it at 8 inches in my honey field and rang up a smooth 88-89 on the AT-Pro. Was sure of some more old silver or an LC. :ticked:

 

[OxShoeDrew]

:lol:Heartbreaks would make a fun thread.