I continue to hunt a wooded site in a park where I have found a lot of silver coins (30+) over the last year, but the finds are getting scarce. The last four hunts here I have been digging more nickel signals. Still finding some deep wheat cents, 2 or 3 per hunt. Yesterday I went out for 2.5 hours and moved to a section where there is very little trash, unlike the rest of the area where there are bottles and cans scattered around. There were very few signals of any kind, but I hit something in the nickel range. Used the pinpointer before digging, and it was shallow, maybe 2 inches. Surprised to find this piece of (repousse) sterling, a corner piece of something, marked "sterling 925 fine". After I got home I scanned it with the detector just to check, and it gave a solid 11-08 when laying flat. The silver is pretty thin, though, so that probably explains why it gave a pull-tab type signal. Only other finds were 1919 and 1942 wheat cents.
I researched online and it appears to be a corner piece to a desk blotter. Whatever it was attached to was pretty thin, like cardboard or thin metal. Apparently it was common to have four sterling corner pieces on your desk blotter. Other picture is a sterling ring I found at the same site on the previous hunt. Looks like weather is going to stay mild for a while longer.
SE Pro since Aug. 2009, located in Maryland.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/2017 01:14PM by DougF.
