Went out searching an indian campsite yesterday with the Vaq. Found a nice civil war era Dragoon button, the side plate to a flint lock rifle, musket ball, pieces of a copper kettle and various other items. What surprised me was a mercury dime. This is a farm field that has been farmed for around a hundred yrs. so I occasionally find a coin but it got me to thinking how common mercury dimes are. Over the years I find mercs. at a 3 to 1 ratio over roseys. Any one else notice this. By far the most common silver coin I find. I would have a lot rather had another dragoon button but it's definately better than an old rusty nail !
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another relic hunt with vaquero
- Thread starter kansa54
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Nice snag on the dragoon button, and lock plate, looks like an older area for sure.
I have noticed that I find mercury head dimes at about two to one ratio compared to rosevelts, but that is ok by me as it is my second most favorite silver dime.
The Seated liberty dime is my favorite.
I have noticed that I find mercury head dimes at about two to one ratio compared to rosevelts, but that is ok by me as it is my second most favorite silver dime.
The Seated liberty dime is my favorite.
kaolinwasher
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I know what you say about finding more mercs than rosies I think bythe time rosevelt dimes came in , farm tractors had cabs or did most of the work, se fewer people in the fields, now they ride in the cabs and do all the work in a short time , heck they used steem even in the 40.s for farm work
Dtektor said:
Dtektor, when relic hunting the Indian camp site, I turned the disc. knob just past all metal and keep sensitivity in the red. I definately want to dig iron because of all the gun parts and iron arrowheads that I find; I just don't want to dig small pieces of wire, that's why I don't use the all metal. I also super tune it quite often, hoping to find a pit below plow zone that might have undisturbed artifacts.
If I am hunting an old homestead, I'm not to crazy about finding a lot of iron. I will disc. just past the iron and set the sens. around 9. It usually works around iron pretty good at those settings.