silversweeper
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Took me a lot of swinging and different hunts/sites with a couple of different coils to put together this batch of finds. A couple were surface finds (silver '53 rosie & '03 indian) found with my ultra deep 13 inch ultimate coil....lol. Is that Murphy's law for metal detecting or what? Buy yet another coil to detect stuff even deeper and end up finding stuff on the surface with it?!! Some of the finds were found with my Sunray x-5 in some VERY trashy sites. The merc I've swung over with a couple of different coils before and it took the sunray to sniff it out. I knew there had to be silver hiding there because I was getting so much null with my other coils due to heavy iron concentration. Will hit that area again when I have nothing else to do. There are a couple of bullets I found in a sidewalk tearout with the sunray after a couple of my buddies had already been over the area with their detectors (the '69 cal on the left, below the chewed bullet, under that is what I believe is a very early brass jacketed lead bullet, next to it is a 44 cal Sage pistol bullet) . I'm particularly proud of the little 44 cal Sage pistol bullet. It's my first of that make and, before I got a chance to detect the site, I stood a few feet away from it while talking to one of my buddies the day before while he was hunting. He told me there were a lot of iron targets in the ground there. I told him he needed a smaller coil and he told me that his detector discriminates all that out and he only hears the good stuff that's there. I thought to myself..."Hmmm...we'll see about that". The other bullets, the 1869 V nickel, and other what-nots, all came from areas that others have told me were hunted out and they were all deep and probably beyond the range of those other detectorists. Most all were found with my 10x12 SEF. The little flower is OLD, probably early 1800's at least. It's either a lapel or hat pin with the pin broken off and it was deep. The key plate came from a local park and has to be from a building called the "Floral Hall" which was a meeting place kind of like a civic center in the mid 1800's but burned down. A cool find with local history. The crude square token is from a local family that had an early hotel, a drugstore, and a couple of other establisments. It too is a sidewalk tearout find and was heavily crusted over. There are very faint remnants of the words "Good For" in the center but that's all that can be made out. The name on it is H. Unnerstall. There's also a donut shaped token that probably had a penny in the center at one time. One one side it reads "Lucky Auto Seat Covers" (has to be a joke in that somewhere.....Lucky Seat Covers......), the other side says "Keep me for Good Luck". Too bad it's corroded. There's also a tiny brass Civil War era rivet stuck to a chunk of iron. Proud of that find, the sunray squeaked it out even bunched up with that chunk of rust.
Happy Hunting to all!
Happy Hunting to all!
