Gold, Big Silver and Other Goodies!

[Brierfield]

I hunted a site today that is supposed to be the oldest house in a nearby town. The house is a dogtrot (now remodeled and enclosed) that was built in the mid-1800s, and is supposed to be the site of Confederate headquarters during WBTS. I was using an E-Trac with the stock 11" coil. All targets found in the yard of the subject house.

L to R: 1912 V Nickel; 1906 Indian Head Penny; 1923 Mercury Dime; 1900S Barber Quarter; 1951 Franklin Half Dollar; harmonica reed. Below are 6 wheaties. Ring is large men's HS class ring made of 10K gold. The harmonica reed was the only recovered item that can be connected to the WBTS.

Thanks for looking!

 

[jim tn]

Very nice hunt. Gold and silver on any hunt is a good one. HH jim tn

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds congrats

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Awesome hunt...looks like someone did an electrical experiment with the ben franklin. ..

 

[Brierfield]

Thanks, Jim! I always enjoy reading your hunting reports!

 

[Brierfield]

Thanks! It was certainly one of my better days!

 

[Brierfield]

Awesome hunt...looks like someone did an electrical experiment with the ben franklin. ..

Yeah, I hadn't considered the electrical experiment angle. There are 2 very sharp and jagged places on each side of the coin, and I just chalked it up to an encounter with a lawnmower. You may be onto something! BTW, the BF was less than an inch deep under an oak tree; I was quite surprised it was a coin, expecting it to possibly be a piece of large aluminum. Always surprises in this hobby!

 

[GarrettGuru]

What an awesome day you had! Must have been thrilling to find all of that in one hunt. How much time did you spend at the site?

 

[Brierfield]

What an awesome day you had! Must have been thrilling to find all of that in one hunt. How much time did you spend at the site?

Thanks, GG!

I was there between 4 and 5 hours. I was working slowly, especially since I was swinging an E-Trac. The site is pretty clean of trash, especially modern trash. There was quite a bit of iron very near the house, but it's doubtless been re-roofed many times since the 1850s, when it was built. The lady who owns the house told me that someone had detected the site a few years ago. Sure am thankful that they missed so much!

 

[GarrettGuru]

What an awesome day you had! Must have been thrilling to find all of that in one hunt. How much time did you spend at the site?

Not a bad return on your time investment at that site! The guy who detected it before you must have been using a $50 bounty hunter lol

 

[Brierfield]

Yeah, or maybe a broom stick.

But, here's another thought: what if he actually took a huge haul of all the great stuff out of the site, and what I found was just the dregs that he missed?

Not likely, but one never knows!

 

[miserman]

Nice array of coins. Franklins are much harder to find than Walkers. Good job on the gold ring.

 

[rottonr]

Wow, what a hunt...

 

[Brierfield]

Nice array of coins. Franklins are much harder to find than Walkers. Good job on the gold ring.

Thanks! You're right about the Franklins; you don't see many of them, and this was my first one.

They just didn't have as a long mint run.

 

[Brierfield]

Wow, what a hunt...

It was certainly a hunt I'll always remember!

BTW, I went back to the yard this past week and dug 2 more wheats.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats on the fantastic bunch of finds !

 

[JimmyCT]

Great hunt! Good Ol' Ben is still on my list to find....

 

[Brierfield]

Thanks ETO & Earthly Potluck!

I went back to the same street a couple of times since the pictured finds. At one house across the street I found a 1937D silver Washington quarter. A few weeks ago in the yard next to the old 1850s dogtrot house, I found a 1953 1/10 Balboa silver coin from Panama. Boy was I surprised at that!

Today I went back and got a permission at another house across the street and found practically nothing. It was getting hot, so I plan to return to that yard in a few days at a much earlier time. I also went to a large vacant lot in the next block of the street today, and found a few wheats and a 10K gold wedding band. That makes two gold rings on this same street in the past two weeks. I had gone three years without finding a gold ring until these; this hobby can sure run hot or cold!