Archive for ‘COINS’
Friday, April 11th, 2008
On October 22, 2006 I was relic hunting near Fredericksburg, Virginia. I had just dug three Confederate Gardner bullets and received another signal on my Explorer XS that sounded and IDed like another bullet.
After dumpung my second shovelful of dirt I was surprised to see a small silver coin on top of the dirt pile. I thought I had just dug a piece of Spanish silver but when I picked up the coin I knew I was wrong.
Tags: 1792 Half Disme, Fredericksburg, George Washington, Minelab Explorer XS
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Last summer a friend and I were detecting a site when I found this 1773 Spanish reale in shockingly good shape. It was about 4 inches down. This was at a site along the El Camino Reale trail in central CA. We knew that there was a small and short lived trading post on the spot in the mid 1800’s and there were a lot of corresponding seated coins found. However, we also knew that it was in the area of one of D’Anza’a camps as he mapped the inland trail of California in the spring of 1776.
Tags: California, D'Anza, El Camino, Musketeer Advantage, Spanish Reale
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
I have had my new Fisher Coin Strike for about 3 weeks now, and I continue to learn more about it each time I take it out. It is a bit different to operate than any detector I have used in my 35 years of detecting. That said, I do like a challenge!
Tags: Barber Dime, Fisher Coin Strike, Indian Head Pennies, Wheatbacks
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Somewhere in Tennessee police searched a muddy city parking lot where workmen discovered a (container-pot) of gold coins that may have been buried during the Civil War. The U.S. gold pieces are worth (conservatively) up to $3,000 each but it’s unclear how many were found since the workmen made off with most of them. “We have accounted for 177 and that’s just by talking to people who said that they had possessed some,” said the Mayor. “There may be a good bit more than that.”
Tags: Civil War, COINS, Gold
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
I was part of a tour group that was hunting certain properties in the U.K.. This was my second trip as I usually go for two weeks at a time.
Tags: British, Coin Shooting, COINS, Finds, Metal Detecting, Treasure Hunting
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