Last few hunts - Jimmie Allen, Chinese cache, Victorian jewelery, and coins too :thumbup:

[Cal_Cobra]

Haven't been getting out as much as I'd like to lately, but still managed to find a few goodies on the last few hunts.

Victorian gold plated cuff link, my first Chinese cache coin, SF trolley token, Cub Scout pin, Victorian sterling silver stick pin (minus the pin), Victorian copper ring (has a fancy design around the side), and a tiny sterling silver sun charm:

1930's Jimmey Allen "Richfield Hi-Octane Flying Cadet" wings:

Boatload of wheatbacks (their killing my wheat to silver ratio ):

A few firsts for me - my first Liberty nickel (1899), and my first U.S. occupation Philippines coin (thought it was a token when I first found it, but it's a 5 Centavos, tumbled clean). I tumbled the Liberty and Buffalo nickels to try to clean them up, they were really rough when dug. The Buffalo came out decent, not sure why they got the orange'ish tint to them, I didn't mix them with copper or clad and they were the first in a new tumbler jar Found the 1906 Barber dime at a stingy SF demo site I hit with RacerX and another friend who managed to find an 1862 British large cent. The Jefferson nickel is a 1943P silver war nickel, come to think of it, does that nickel trio qualify as a nickle trifecta, or throw in the U.S./Philippines 5 Centavos nickel and it's a grand slam

That's about it, hoping to find some oldies this weekend

hh,
Brian

 

[bertman]

Sweet finds Brian... Congrats on getting you first of many V's... Those Hi-Octane wings are way cool...

HH Robert

 

[jim tn]

Nice, nice bunch of finds. Most of my Buffalo nickels also have a orange cast to them when cleaned a lttle. I thought it was just our soil here. I can idenitfy with your our of whack wheats to silver ratio as well. I have one site in paricular that its 15 to 20 wheats to 1 silver. Got 5 this morning, in fact, and no silver. Good hunting. HH jim tn

 

[ElginTim]

Well Brian most of our nickels come out of the ground deep red here. I'd love to find a few with some nickel finish left. Some can be cleaned fairly well with Bar Keepers Friend or Brasso. But about the only ones that will retain any finish in the ground are to be found in anoxic muck on the river bottoms in my experience. The exception being silver-content war nickels. They tend to retain the finish well. Nice haul there though and congrats on that first V!

 

[Dwayner]

Thats fantastic!!!!!

-15 F and a foot of snow. My hunting is done for the year.

 

[woodwizard]

impressive array of finds-hope ya find many more its a very productive site you have there

 

[obolus]

Nice finds Brian!