Blind Squirrel
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Howdy--
I went back to that lot where I dug the 3 silver quarters in the same hole. The owner told me that it was soon to be a parking lot. They had scraped the lot in preparation! Sounds good to me - any change in surface ground conditions presents new opportunities to make good finds. My best finds on this hunt were a 1932 Texas Chauffeur's License, two silver dimes and six wheat cents. It's something the way the mineralization combined with fertilizer have corroded these two dimes. It took some aggressive cleaning to even identify the types of dimes that they are. The merc is a 1944-D and the Roosevelt is a 1956-D.
On my second hunt a few of my friends and I took a 180 mile round trip relic hunt to an old Texas trail that in the past had produced military relics from 1820 to 1874 plus a few coins from that period. After hunting that site for well over twenty years, the finds are few and far between. BUT we never get it all!
One of my buddies, who has been detecting and swinging his V3i for less than three years was VERY excited: he dug his first eagle button! It's an Albert's 77 Av, which is a 15 mm 1-piece pewter Infantry button. That got my competitive juices flowing so I changed my strategy and took off my 13" ultimate coil and put the 6X10 coil on my V3i. The 6x10 allowed me to detect closer to the mesquite and it payed off with this eagle button with the backmark of "Scovills & Co" indicating a manufacture date of 1840-1850. Best of luck and...
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
I went back to that lot where I dug the 3 silver quarters in the same hole. The owner told me that it was soon to be a parking lot. They had scraped the lot in preparation! Sounds good to me - any change in surface ground conditions presents new opportunities to make good finds. My best finds on this hunt were a 1932 Texas Chauffeur's License, two silver dimes and six wheat cents. It's something the way the mineralization combined with fertilizer have corroded these two dimes. It took some aggressive cleaning to even identify the types of dimes that they are. The merc is a 1944-D and the Roosevelt is a 1956-D.
On my second hunt a few of my friends and I took a 180 mile round trip relic hunt to an old Texas trail that in the past had produced military relics from 1820 to 1874 plus a few coins from that period. After hunting that site for well over twenty years, the finds are few and far between. BUT we never get it all!
One of my buddies, who has been detecting and swinging his V3i for less than three years was VERY excited: he dug his first eagle button! It's an Albert's 77 Av, which is a 15 mm 1-piece pewter Infantry button. That got my competitive juices flowing so I changed my strategy and took off my 13" ultimate coil and put the 6X10 coil on my V3i. The 6x10 allowed me to detect closer to the mesquite and it payed off with this eagle button with the backmark of "Scovills & Co" indicating a manufacture date of 1840-1850. Best of luck and...
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
