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Here's something I picked up last night at an old site, Funny shaped V-Nickel.
The location is an old stage stop which started in 1858 and later continued as a settlement up to the early 1900's which accounts for some coins we sometimes pull from that era.
A friend and I left late in the early evening after work to the old site knowing we would be detecting only a few hours hoping to capture a seated or something old before night fell upon us and trying to beat a storm with high possibility of snow, We couldn't avoid the darkness but we did beat the storm and with the cool wind around us our water bottles did freeze.
One of the finds was a V-Nickel shaped into a bowl, At the time when I recovered the target I didn't know what it was until this morning when going through the finds.
Other than that, The other targets recovered are commonly found here only this trip didn't give up an old seated or other earlier coins from the Stage stop era, Most of the horse shoes coiming out of this site with nails attached are almost always square nails.
Still, A fun trip and good exercise which I am suffering from at the present moment.
Pocket knife,
Some iron finds,
One Henry shell,
Smashed musket ball,
Bowl shaped V-Nickel,
Remains of a Harmonic,
Several percussion caps,
Two 2 and 3 ringer smashed bullets,
A few horseshoes with square nails attached,
Any idea why the V-Nickel was transformed into a bowl shaped object will be greatly appreciated,
HH, Paul
The location is an old stage stop which started in 1858 and later continued as a settlement up to the early 1900's which accounts for some coins we sometimes pull from that era.
A friend and I left late in the early evening after work to the old site knowing we would be detecting only a few hours hoping to capture a seated or something old before night fell upon us and trying to beat a storm with high possibility of snow, We couldn't avoid the darkness but we did beat the storm and with the cool wind around us our water bottles did freeze.
One of the finds was a V-Nickel shaped into a bowl, At the time when I recovered the target I didn't know what it was until this morning when going through the finds.
Other than that, The other targets recovered are commonly found here only this trip didn't give up an old seated or other earlier coins from the Stage stop era, Most of the horse shoes coiming out of this site with nails attached are almost always square nails.
Still, A fun trip and good exercise which I am suffering from at the present moment.
Pocket knife,
Some iron finds,
One Henry shell,
Smashed musket ball,
Bowl shaped V-Nickel,
Remains of a Harmonic,
Several percussion caps,
Two 2 and 3 ringer smashed bullets,
A few horseshoes with square nails attached,
Any idea why the V-Nickel was transformed into a bowl shaped object will be greatly appreciated,
HH, Paul
