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More Terrace trolling.....

Chris(SoCenWI)

Well-known member
Hello All,

I saw that they were getting ready for sod at the construction project near me. They haven't removed as much dirt as they have on some other sites; not sure they are going to or not. If they do I will be back. But for now that translates in to less older finds.

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Found a few wheats and the indian heads trickled in. I didn't get the silver until about the last moment. Coin at the top of the picture is a 1920 Cuban 5 Centavos. As usual with construction you need to dig about everything cause depth don't mean much. Had a good handful of clad also.

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Found this neat jackknife, Remington UMC, with a ladies' shoe for a handle. Blade is maybe an inch long. Don't think they were Marine Corp. standard issue.

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Also dug about my thinnest Merc today, here is the reverse. I believe it is an 1918, but that is a bit of a guess.

I asked for and received permission at a couple of more houses, but believe I will wait for rain before detecting, bit too dry now. These are both older houses on corner lots, should be great locations but seems lately the more excited I am about a site the worse I do. I'm sure I'm not the first yahoo with a detector that has lusted after a lawn and asked for permission. Hopefully the Explorer can at least sniff out what the others left behind.

Chris
 
Nice finds there Chris. At least that merc isn't a 1916 and if it was the D mintmark is probably worn off. Cool knife also. Never seen one like that before. HH

Eddie
 
Nice finds, Chris!

How did you go about getting permission to hunt the construction sites?
 
Yep! very cool knife. I'd date that from 1900 to 1920. It looks to be a stainless blade though, and they didn't start using those until after around 1914. The first stainless blades were really crap...they used the wrong type. Stainless has gotten a bad rap ever since. Anyway, that's a great knife find, Chris!

Knipper
 
It is a division of Remington Arms who manufactured the knife. Remington knives are very collectible so that could be worth something depending on the age of it.
 
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