silversweeper
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With several experienced detectorists around the area good finds can be few and far in between, but sometimes the few make all the empty swings worth it! Here are finds from 3 different hunts. The Gold and silver ring is not inscribed on the inside so it gets added to my treasure box/son's college fund. I think the M is for Mizzou or Missouri but who knows. It was, other than 36 cents in dimes/nickel/penny clad, my only good find on one hunt at an old school. The ground was absolutely the hardest packed dry clay that I've ever willingly dug in! It hit as a solid 1-41 at about 8 inches on my etrac so I was thinking "please be silver dollar and not coke can". When I saw it was a ring I did a little happy dance. Even happier when I got it cleaned off later and discovered that it was Silver AND Gold! Wahoo....first gold for 2012 for me and heck, it even fits my right hand ring finger if I had a reason to wear it...lol. The '43 merc was the only silver of 3 dimes I dug at a short 30 minute hunt on a yard where sod had been removed. Too bad it's a little bent but....still silver. The 1881 indian is worn pretty smooth but still in decent shape. Found it, the '25 Buffalo, the '37 wheatie, and the 2 69 cal. round balls at a long VERY HOT 3+ hour hunt in a hunted out spot I like to visit occasionally when I don't mind going slow and testing my bond with my etrac. The one round ball closest to the merc appears to be carved although I'm not sure what the purpose was. There is a ring carved around it, perhaps to remove the mold line for some reason, and then on one side are three little flat circular spots right together in a triangle. Odd. Last find pictured is a snall rectangular piece that may have been a leftover part of a small lead ingot. Not sure on that one, it has some strange marks on one side and nothing on the other. Oh and then the little sliver of flowery china. May use that in a piece of jewelry someday, who knows.... HH to all!!
