coinscratch
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Ive been gridding an area with my Vaquero I believed might be worth my time,its an active school built in '58 that once held the main ball field for the surrounding town. After some investigating and some door to door knocking I was told that a certain segment of open field once held a fixed large wooden bleacher that overlooked the then ball field.After an initial scan I chose an area that had multiple beaver tails and steel bottle tops to begin gridding.I gridded this area for several weekends and would like to share my finds(excuse photos taken with cellphone)
1st the relics..prior to being a ball field this area was farm land. one very good conditioned suspender (patten date march 7, 1871) and I believe its clasp that originally had a porcelain front.One sleigh bell, very heavy,slightly bent,that remarkable still chimes.
2nd the coins, Surprisingly,i did poorly on coins 7 wheat pennies dates between 1941-58 one '43-p silver nickle,lots of copper pennies up to early 70's & clad silver late 60's early '70's
3rd junk rings, three junk rings one aluminum,one glass stones & plated gold(broken) one older copper ring that appears to have once held a stone.
4th the silver rings, One small silver ring has "sterling" inside band, one fairly large silver ring that was completely squashed so much so Thought it was an earing until i gingerly pryed it opened and discovered otherwise has "925" inside band
5th...The Gold, weighs 28 grams has '14k" marked inside band,stone appears ruby but wont be certain until i bring it to expert. I almost crapped my pants when i pulled ring from plug,thought at first it was a nickle as it was sounding strong in that usual notch (just bellow nickle) 4 inches in plug. My first gold every with the Vaquero.Plan on buying a new camera with the proceed to post the upcoming finds I know this Vaquero will provide for me, Happy digging.
1st the relics..prior to being a ball field this area was farm land. one very good conditioned suspender (patten date march 7, 1871) and I believe its clasp that originally had a porcelain front.One sleigh bell, very heavy,slightly bent,that remarkable still chimes.
2nd the coins, Surprisingly,i did poorly on coins 7 wheat pennies dates between 1941-58 one '43-p silver nickle,lots of copper pennies up to early 70's & clad silver late 60's early '70's
3rd junk rings, three junk rings one aluminum,one glass stones & plated gold(broken) one older copper ring that appears to have once held a stone.
4th the silver rings, One small silver ring has "sterling" inside band, one fairly large silver ring that was completely squashed so much so Thought it was an earing until i gingerly pryed it opened and discovered otherwise has "925" inside band
5th...The Gold, weighs 28 grams has '14k" marked inside band,stone appears ruby but wont be certain until i bring it to expert. I almost crapped my pants when i pulled ring from plug,thought at first it was a nickle as it was sounding strong in that usual notch (just bellow nickle) 4 inches in plug. My first gold every with the Vaquero.Plan on buying a new camera with the proceed to post the upcoming finds I know this Vaquero will provide for me, Happy digging.
..don't let somebody cheat you if you can help it. I've never found one that big YET, but would have assumed it would tone in the zinc penny range or higher being that big? Did you also hit a lot of nails being wooden bleachers and all? I think I may have found a spot like that at an old school too...lots of nail tones in a long narrow section of the ballfields...perhaps I better hustle back on over there and give it a go, I just sort of quickly breezed past it gunning clad one day. That's a pants crapper of a find! 