Arboretum just went full circle

[Ronstar]

Yesterday jkline and I teamed up where I dug the 66 JFK and was starting to get into the early 60s coins, well that little area didnt pan out so well but Jeff nailed an older Washington quarter and a late 50s Rosie further up the lane!! My efforts pulled up a silver colored table spoon with very little tarnish so checked the stem and it had markings. Turned out it is silver overlay and pattern and maker were popular in the 20s to the 50s in the hotel/restaurant venues.
What I call for my big find was recovering a fired 45 caliber lead slug!! Betting that matches up to the 45 straight wall cases I’ve been digging!!
As for clad..... combined we left with less than a buck.
I am going to post the bullet and case info on the Whatzit forum as those older rounds are a bit out of my wheelhouse and hoping some of you can help better identify what round this more than likely is.

 

[jkline]

Luck, fluke, no idea-- just meandered around, hypnotized to iron grunts on the CTX... and my headphones exploded. First time for double silver in the hole! The quarter was exposed on the plug; the 59' Rosie was in the hole, nicked by the shovel. Dammit!

There is so much luck involved in detecting-- if Ron kept swinging another 30' a few days before, he would have owned these. I know you guys will scream BS!, but pickings were pretty slim: a clad quarter, a memorial and these were all I had after 2hrs of swinging.

 

[MikeO]

Nice scores on the silvers.

 

[still looking 52]

Two silvers is excellent, that's an average of one silver per hour, I've hunted many 8 hour days without any silver.

 

[jim tn]

Luck, fluke, no idea-- just meandered around, hypnotized to iron grunts on the CTX... and my headphones exploded. First time for double silver in the hole! The quarter was exposed on the plug; the 59' Rosie was in the hole, nicked by the shovel. Dammit!

There is so much luck involved in detecting-- if Ron kept swinging another 30' a few days before, he would have owned these. I know you guys will scream BS!, but pickings were pretty slim: a clad quarter, a memorial and these were all I had after 2hrs of swinging.

I prefer quality over quantity myself. Makes for a great silver ratio to clad day for ya. HH Jim tn