Hi there
I never posted anything in 2014, it was kind of a slow year overall but the first silver coin I found was a good one. It was back in April, when the ground was first thawing out and getting diggable again. I decided to detect an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp that I had found late in 2013. I figured it would be a good place to search for Mercury dimes, and other stuff from that time period. I found a couple of wheat pennies, and I wandered over to the south side of the field, which was still covered in slush from being in the shade. I passed over a 12-40 a few inches down, I figured it would be another wheat penny. When I started to dig, right beneath a layer of slushy mud I hit semi-frozen to frozen clay. I use a military "entrenching tool" as my digger so I proceeded to chop out chunks of clay. I'm really lucky I didn't cut the coin in half doing that. For two years in a row, previously, I had badly scratched up the best coin I'd found each year. Anyway, when I had a pretty good pile of frozen clay on the ground, I detected the coin in the pile, and cleared it away to reveal a tiny silver coin, the size of a dime, clearly dated "1769". A half reale, made in Mexico. I also found some more wheats and one Mercury dime. The camp produced a couple of metal buttons and insignia pins when I went back later in the year.
I never posted anything in 2014, it was kind of a slow year overall but the first silver coin I found was a good one. It was back in April, when the ground was first thawing out and getting diggable again. I decided to detect an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp that I had found late in 2013. I figured it would be a good place to search for Mercury dimes, and other stuff from that time period. I found a couple of wheat pennies, and I wandered over to the south side of the field, which was still covered in slush from being in the shade. I passed over a 12-40 a few inches down, I figured it would be another wheat penny. When I started to dig, right beneath a layer of slushy mud I hit semi-frozen to frozen clay. I use a military "entrenching tool" as my digger so I proceeded to chop out chunks of clay. I'm really lucky I didn't cut the coin in half doing that. For two years in a row, previously, I had badly scratched up the best coin I'd found each year. Anyway, when I had a pretty good pile of frozen clay on the ground, I detected the coin in the pile, and cleared it away to reveal a tiny silver coin, the size of a dime, clearly dated "1769". A half reale, made in Mexico. I also found some more wheats and one Mercury dime. The camp produced a couple of metal buttons and insignia pins when I went back later in the year.
