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Ronstar

Ronstar

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Finally things dried out just enough to get out and swing and dig!! Met up with jkline and we went back to the apartment complex that produced the two silver Rosey dimes and the two rings and wheats a couple months ago. Still snow on the north sides but enough bare ground to comfortably play. Remember now, this place started as a military housing in WW2, then University married housing and now low rent student apartments.
First thing I dig up was a button. Back was corroded off and it was kinda thick. A little snow wiped on to clear the mud and I see an eagle with stars around the edge, what? Could I have just dug my first military button? A bit more wiping and can see arrow being held in talons and some type of rectangular tube looking thing in the other talons. Place in safe place on me and continue.
Moved over to near where the main door is for the four plex of apartments and dug a war nickel just off the sidewalk. Place in zippered side of pouch and continue on, didnt check date but will do that when I get home (I always just find one). About 12” over get dime signal and out pops a 45 Merc!! Did I just find a pocket spill! Another few inches over up comes another war nickel!!!! No more surprises in this small area, one 44 wheat further over and everything else clad.
I guess this is my first officially three silver day!!!
jkline thinks this button may be older than WW2 so I took as good of pics as I could get. Hopefully you button guys can advise what era this button is. (After cleaning I could count 12 stars around the edge) Thanks.
 

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Update: after button dried looks like a sideways anchor in the one leg grasp! Supposedly there was more Navy living there than Army or Army Air Corp........sorry about upside down photo, I did not take it that way....
 
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Ronstar said:
Finally things dried out just enough to get out and swing and dig!! Met up with jkline and we went back to the apartment complex that produced the two silver Rosey dimes and the two rings and wheats a couple months ago. Still snow on the north sides but enough bare ground to comfortably play. Remember now, this place started as a military housing in WW2, then University married housing and now low rent student apartments.
First thing I dig up was a button. Back was corroded off and it was kinda thick. A little snow wiped on to clear the mud and I see an eagle with stars around the edge, what? Could I have just dug my first military button? A bit more wiping and can see arrow being held in talons and some type of rectangular tube looking thing in the other talons. Place in safe place on me and continue.
Moved over to near where the main door is for the four plex of apartments and dug a war nickel just off the sidewalk. Place in zippered side of pouch and continue on, didnt check date but will do that when I get home (I always just find one). About 12” over get dime signal and out pops a 45 Merc!! Did I just find a pocket spill! Another few inches over up comes another war nickel!!!! No more surprises in this small area, one 44 wheat further over and everything else clad.
I guess this is my first officially three silver day!!!
jkline thinks this button may be older than WW2 so I took as good of pics as I could get. Hopefully you button guys can advise what era this button is. (After cleaning I could count 12 stars around the edge) Thanks.
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all good candidates for Elmy's secret sauce ! nice !!!! you forgot to carry a bottle along with you didn't you?
 
New habits on a old dog hard to start....
 
757 thanks for the info!! This is my first military button so not sure what site to start to look, what site was that info from?
 
Ronstar said:
Finally things dried out just enough to get out and swing and dig!! Met up with jkline and we went back to the apartment complex that produced the two silver Rosey dimes and the two rings and wheats a couple months ago. Still snow on the north sides but enough bare ground to comfortably play. Remember now, this place started as a military housing in WW2, then University married housing and now low rent student apartments.
First thing I dig up was a button. Back was corroded off and it was kinda thick. A little snow wiped on to clear the mud and I see an eagle with stars around the edge, what? Could I have just dug my first military button? A bit more wiping and can see arrow being held in talons and some type of rectangular tube looking thing in the other talons. Place in safe place on me and continue.
Moved over to near where the main door is for the four plex of apartments and dug a war nickel just off the sidewalk. Place in zippered side of pouch and continue on, didnt check date but will do that when I get home (I always just find one). About 12” over get dime signal and out pops a 45 Merc!! Did I just find a pocket spill! Another few inches over up comes another war nickel!!!! No more surprises in this small area, one 44 wheat further over and everything else clad.
I guess this is my first officially three silver day!!!
jkline thinks this button may be older than WW2 so I took as good of pics as I could get. Hopefully you button guys can advise what era this button is. (After cleaning I could count 12 stars around the edge) Thanks.
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Nice finds Ronstar: there was a large naval training center on Lake Ponderay ( not the correct spelling, but sounds like that) in North Idaho. Perhaps the button is from that area. Thousands of naval recruits went through their naval basic training before being sent to fight in WWII. My father was one of them. He fell in love with the area and years later moved our family from Illinois to north Idaho. Coeurd’Alene was a popular spot for the sailors when they had time off from training, because of the lake. Farragut naval training center. It is now a large park, very little remains of the naval training buildings. The park has been the site of a few national Boy Scout and Girl Scout jamborees. The Northwest Treasure Club of Spokane holds an annual treasure hunt there every year in the spring.
 
Yes, the SEF! Everything was 3-4” deep (so far all finds are 6” and less). Naval Training was at Farragut State Park where Lake Ponderay is, I was at the 68 BSA Jamboree!! Found out my mother in law instructed some course up there, believe it or not it was a submarine training location as it is a very deep lake. Both in laws were Navy.
 
Ronstar said:
Yes, the SEF! Everything was 3-4” deep (so far all finds are 6” and less). Naval Training was at Farragut State Park where Lake Ponderay is, I was at the 68 BSA Jamboree!! Found out my mother in law instructed some course up there, believe it or not it was a submarine training location as it is a very deep lake. Both in laws were Navy.
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keeping all the finds within the family.....nice tradition !.....the separation is really something on that coil that you will be talking about later on with the more you use it.
The last coin I dug at 6 inches deep was around 1990. Mine are all well over 9 inch mark.
 
Way to go on the three silver day. "S" mintmark are always nice. Good hunting.
 
Thx 757!
This area right around where I live may be just a shallow area to hunt. Deepest Ive ever gone here is right on 8-9”, otherwise 6” and less. In that apartment complex everything recovered for me has been closer to 4”. The clay level in this county can be 2” one spot and six feet away be 12”, you should try hand digging post holes here 🤬
 
Larbear.....
I knew that spelling wasnt right but being half awake I just followed your lead....
Pend Oreille Lake.
Next cup off coffee being poured!!
 
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