coinworld
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I was on a group hunt in South Carolina this past weekend at a huge track of land that had known Rev War and Civil War activity; although it was easy digging in the sandy loony sugar soil, I was unable this time to sniff out any buttons at all on this trip with my XP Deus using high frequency coil. After 2 days of hard digging and walking about 20 miles over both days I had only a silver ring stamped : “COIN” inside the ring and a kepi buckle that gave no VDI at a foot down.
We decided to search a different area. I decided to search a washed out gulley with high banks and first target was a small iron pipe that rand up in the 40s; not 5 feet away I got another identical signal also iron and about 5 inches I was looking at a small end of a slender rod of some sort. I reached down and pulled it left to right and noticed the “Rod” appeared to taper in thickness with a triangular shape; “could it be?” I thought, after pulling it out I realized I had dug my first Enfield Bayonet with only an inch missing from the tip.
the bayonet is now cooking in my electrolysis set up. My lesson learned especially in a highly historic site is to dig that iron-you may be pleasantly surprised as I was diggers.
We decided to search a different area. I decided to search a washed out gulley with high banks and first target was a small iron pipe that rand up in the 40s; not 5 feet away I got another identical signal also iron and about 5 inches I was looking at a small end of a slender rod of some sort. I reached down and pulled it left to right and noticed the “Rod” appeared to taper in thickness with a triangular shape; “could it be?” I thought, after pulling it out I realized I had dug my first Enfield Bayonet with only an inch missing from the tip.
the bayonet is now cooking in my electrolysis set up. My lesson learned especially in a highly historic site is to dig that iron-you may be pleasantly surprised as I was diggers.
