Fun finds with the CoRe

[dbado1]

I went and visited my parents in Phoenix today and took the CoRe along. After a nice lunch I broke out the detector. It was a beautiful 78 degrees and sunny. Perfect day off.
The house I was raised in was built in 1954. Not very old but it was built in an old citrus orchard so I had hopes of finding something older than the house. My near 80 year old mom followed me around and we had a blast finding stuff in the yard.

I used the small 5" coil as there is lots of EMI from near by over head power lines and the small coil is much less susceptible to it. Hunted in DI3, sens 80, ID Mask 10. Super stable.

We found some odd things. Nothing of value money wise but priceless none- the- less hunting where I grew up with my mom.

Surprisingly, we found a few foreign coins in the same hole. One is a 100 Lire coin from Italy. I don't know yet what the two others are. They are the same coin and say "liberte", "egalite", and "fraternite" around the edge and a figure on it that looks like Tinker Bell holding a torch. No country of origin. Any ideas?

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The little spoon is silver and the pocket knife belonged to me or my brother. Don't know what the brass thing is and the other thing is a hunk of lead.

Really fun afternoon. HH

Dean

 

[dbado1]

The two coins are French.
My parents have traveled the world a couple of times and all my mom can figure is that she gave my kids the coins to play with back when they were kids and they lost them in the yard.(?)
She doesn't have a clue as to the origin of the little silver spoon.

Dean

 

[Elton]

Maybe the items she doesn't know about came from the old orchard days..

 

[dbado1]

Yes, that would be my guess as well.

Dean

 

[mtsheron]

Awesome finds none the less.

 

[eSCANZ]

nice to see you got your pocket knife back - that would have brought back some memories and the nice feeling of having it in your hand again - primo find mate - thanks for sharing

 

[dbado1]

Thanks for the kind words, guys!
I'm headed to the gold fields this weekend with the SDC-2300 and giving the Nokta a break. Good luck!

Dean

 

[greaser]

Nice finds especially the spoon that's a nice hunk of silver.