I woke up a little late this afternoon (I'm working graves) and the weatherman said rain for today. I looked outside and it had not strated yet so I decided to try my luck for a couple of hours or until I got chased off from the rain. I hunted a house I had done before with the DFX and wanted to see what it had missed. I started with the curb strips as they always give up a handfull of change. On my second pass down the strip I got a good solid quarter signal and it indicated it was around eight inches deep. I dug down about four inches and I found a 10p rusted nail:huh:thinkingabout:? Dang! I thought I had iron masked out. I passed the coil back over the hole and the signal still remained. Another four inches and I found what I thought was a piece of flattened copper tubing. As the dirt fell off I noticed it had the shape of a badge so into my finds pouch it went. I thought it might be a kids badge. When I got home and started cleaning it I was pleasently surprised to see it was an old chauffeur's badge from 1917. These are the things I really love to find as it has a number stamped on it and if there are records that date back that far I just might be able to pin a name to it. Let the fun beguin. In addition I found five more wheaties. 1917,18,20,40,&45D. Thats about the time mother nature said that was all the fun I was gonna have for the day so I left as the rain started coming down. I will be going back as soon as I get the chance as I didn't even start on the yard yet.
No silver but a cool badge and some wheats
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Wow! Now that is a beauty! What a great find! You did very well with the old wheat cents too. thumbsup01
Ill Digger
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Cool find! 8)
My two huntin' partners have each found chauffeur's badges.
One last summer and the other about two weeks ago.
Like you said it's finds like that , that are special,better than just another coin
Good luck with the reserch!!
Congrats :grin:
My two huntin' partners have each found chauffeur's badges.
One last summer and the other about two weeks ago.
Like you said it's finds like that , that are special,better than just another coin
Good luck with the reserch!!
Congrats :grin:
tanacat
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Oh meant to say I tried hunting down the owner of my badge by talking to local dmv, drivers liscensing, county clerk, dept. of trasportation, to our capitol , etc...
I was transferred to prob 10 people! They were all interested and helpful, said one guy might be able to help, have access and time to look through archives. He's spose to call me back. Good luck on your search.
I was transferred to prob 10 people! They were all interested and helpful, said one guy might be able to help, have access and time to look through archives. He's spose to call me back. Good luck on your search.