Saturday's hunt with Freak and Hunting4fun...

[Gonehunting]

First off we have smoked out Durant so we had to move to another town. We hunted 5 homes and gained permission on everyone. That was good, had a little drama..lol but thats a whole other story. The first home was actually the original Owner of the first Lumber company in this town. We hunted around the outside of the fence and Freak found his first Indian.. that was cool.
I don't know what it is about me and foreign coins, but it seems like every new spot we go to I end up with some kind of foreign coin.

My first relic of the day wasn't nothing special, cause I have dug a ton of brass, and brass shutoff valves, but this one was pretty ornate...

There is also a gold plated piece of jewelry in this photo. It appears to have a place for several stones. Unfortunately they are not real and some are missing but I like finding that kind of stuff. The other "K" piece is threaded so it was some kind of cap.
I did mangage a wheat but, moving to the inside of the backyard was were most of finds came from.
First good silver signal was silver but not what I expected.

It has a sterling hallmark. I haven't had time to research it but I have a feeling it was from the original home owner..

The next quarter signal almost cause me to have a heart attack.. I saw a large rim.. and ran an got the camera.
As a lover of tokens this was my "Indian" for the day...

Again I haven't had a chance to research any of these finds...

We had a blast and Dave just really did good on the silver, and Freak did find a really neat token.. I did find a 7 wheats, one was so smooth I couldn't even tell the date. So I left it out...

and a ton of clad.. Ready to go back!

 

[banditicey]

What A Haul

Good Hunt Good Finds!

 

[Gonehunting]

The 50th Anniversary Coin I found was from the Ely and Walker Dry Goods Company, Whats cool is the Walker, is Herbert Walker and was actually the Grandfather of our former President George H. W. Bush.. hense the Herbert Walker in his middle name... Now thats some Gonehunting for History for ya..lol ..

 

[GoVidGo]

wow! that sounds like a great time! I always hope for those!
and some great hisrorical facts are always nice!
it's amazing what finding one coin/token can bring out... historically. I found an old 'miners tag' in my yard. The tag with the number that the miner would hang on the board when he went in, to identify him as being IN the mine if something happened, like acollapse. There is an old coal mine across the street. buried now. Was from the 1930's. it's amazing how much history that 'miner's tag' brings up. from the company to the # on the tag, etc...

 

[Gonehunting]

thats cool.. man.. The historical part of detecting is what I like the most.. There isn't a ton of history here in Oklahoma, like out East, but that doesn't stop me from looking.. thanks for the story..

 

[iskirkra]

I am right there with you on finding tokens and things with writing on them and then doing the research. It is a blast. Nice finds, thanks for the good pictures. What kind of camera are you using?

HH -- Randy

 

[Gonehunting]

On this hunt I was using the Zx5 Playsport from Kodak, We night hunt also and I use a Sony DCR-DVD810 with IR..