Recent hunts, Silver & Gold :thumbup:

[Cal_Cobra]

Got out to a couple of older spots won Wednesday, and although the old coins were stingy, I still managed to find some silver.

First up is a Victorian sterling silver ring. It was black in the center so I hit it with a little cleaner, and it appears that there may have been a stone or such there at one time:

In what effectively amounts to a ghost town, I found this sterling silver spoon:

Also found a few obligatory wheatbacks, both 1944-S:

With gold hovering around $1100-$1200 lately, I decided there's no shame in hitting a few tot-lots in search of gold, but aside from a few nitro finds and similar false alarms, I hadn't found anything spectacular yet. Yesterday lady luck mocked me yet again with a little gold plated junker earring:

Then I think lady luck was trying to tell me to go home ( hey dumb ass it's cold and raining, go home when I got this 14K gold cross (marked on the bail):

hh and stay dry,
Brian

 

[Alimo88]

That cross is beautiful . I would be over the moon with that find.
Justin Perth Australia

 

[jim tn]

That cross is a beaut. Brian, very nice find. That is a great way to end the detecting year, if you don't get something better. HH jim tn

 

[osgood]

Brian, seeing you work when you where here I know you never go home empty handed, beautiful cross indeed! Tommoro we might hit 40 and I can get one more (all be it messy) day in. Did you ever post that seated liberty dime you found?

 

[gmanlight]

Nice finds Brian that cross meant a lot to someone

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Thanks everyone. The cross is definitely a neat find. Someone on another forum pointed out that the date 7-9-1944 was when the Allied troops liberated Caen, so it could have some kind of D-Day correlation, or who knows, cold mean anything, but I like the possible D-Day correlation myself.

Osgood I made a post about my trip to NY, check it out here:

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,1073953,1073953#msg-1073953

I'm surprised you guys aren't covered in snow yet, it was sure trying when I was there, and that was in October

Thanks again, and hh,
Brian

 

[osgood]

Brian, thanks for that link to your eastern trip, I did want to see that seated Liberty again. I really was impressed when we rolled up to that park I remember you saying, man, I hope to get my first seated liberty dime on this trip, and about 15 min later I had to go over to see what you had cause you looked kind of stunned. I thought later man you came here with a plan, and the research ahead, and did that, I was quite in awe. That ring with the green stone is very nice, just as I pictured from your discription. Happy huntin, Im not quitting till the ground is rock hard.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Curt you've been making some great finds lately, I'd be out there too until the ground was frozen

That square was an interesting spot, only that one little area was giving up anything old, seems like the rest was hunted out, or filled it I was ecstatic digging up that seated, only the second one I've found thus far. The large cents are still eluding me, but I'll get one eventually. It's a very hard coin to find in California, but once and a while one surfaces

I hope your bagging lots of oldies

hh,
Brian