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I got off work an hour early so I stopped by the high school near my home as I usually always have my DFX in the trunk. The track & ball fields were being used so I wondered over behind the Sheriff's sub-station on the edge of the grounds and where the band sometimes practices formations in the fall. It one of the few places around the school that is NOT built-up with "fill". My intent was purely to ground fish for clad for an hour before going home to eat.
I found the usual clad in all denominations...maybe a dollar's worth, but I surprised myself fairly quickly when I found a 1942 wheat penny and then REALLY surprised myself when I "EYE SPY" a grey coin on the ground where there were dried run-off rivilets from the latest heavy rains.
I ran my Big Foot coil (I usually just use that on school or park areas as I don't plan on digging deep to find clad, especially when only short-time hunting) over the disk and it registered as a solid 20 VDI. Hmmm...doesn't look like a nickel. Wonder what it is...?
As I looked at it I thought it might just be a metal plug? They are certainly common enough in the surrounding school grounds. I bent down to look closer and thought then that it was some sort of foreign coin as I couldn't recognize the featuring on it. As some of you know, I find LOTS of odd foreign coins from all over the world on the school grounds around here that the Army dependents bring and drop.
So I reached down and picked it up. It was very smooth and a bit stratched like it had been run over or something and pretty smooth. I turned it over and saw a big "V" and instantly knew I had a V Nickel. Wow! Now there's something to show my wife tonight!
Turning it back over I scraped off some more dirt and read the date...1907! That was definetly pretty cool! Eye Spying a V Nickel? Who'd a thunk it?!!
But the story didn't end there. I started wandering back toward the car when I thought I got a pretty solid silver hit. A quarter maybe? I didn't even look at the display, I just pulled out the Lesche tool and dug a five inch plug. Pulled her up and a crusty looking button popped out of the bottom of the plug.
The first thing I saw was the back and I saw that the shank had been half broken off long ago. It also had a very definite dent on one edge. I flipped it to see the front and could tell it had an emblem. Pulling off some more dirt I could now make out some letters that were definitely latin and what looked like a Palmetto tree, the SC symbol. "Cool," I thought and tossed in in my pouch and headed home for dinner and say to Shelley, "Hey, look at the stuff I just found."
Later I washed it off a bit and took a picture (bad one I know - I'm not good with the macro yet). I posted it in the Friends & Finds Forum, mostly to tell about the "Eye Spy" nickel.
Craig from Alabama posted a Civil War button site that showed several buttons like mine. Turns out it's a South Carolina State Seal button! This one definitely get a home in my treasure box. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
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Not a bad little local hunt <BIG><STRONG>AND</STRONG></BIG> I got off work early, to boot!
Ya'll Pass a Good Time!
I found the usual clad in all denominations...maybe a dollar's worth, but I surprised myself fairly quickly when I found a 1942 wheat penny and then REALLY surprised myself when I "EYE SPY" a grey coin on the ground where there were dried run-off rivilets from the latest heavy rains.
I ran my Big Foot coil (I usually just use that on school or park areas as I don't plan on digging deep to find clad, especially when only short-time hunting) over the disk and it registered as a solid 20 VDI. Hmmm...doesn't look like a nickel. Wonder what it is...?
As I looked at it I thought it might just be a metal plug? They are certainly common enough in the surrounding school grounds. I bent down to look closer and thought then that it was some sort of foreign coin as I couldn't recognize the featuring on it. As some of you know, I find LOTS of odd foreign coins from all over the world on the school grounds around here that the Army dependents bring and drop.
So I reached down and picked it up. It was very smooth and a bit stratched like it had been run over or something and pretty smooth. I turned it over and saw a big "V" and instantly knew I had a V Nickel. Wow! Now there's something to show my wife tonight!
Turning it back over I scraped off some more dirt and read the date...1907! That was definetly pretty cool! Eye Spying a V Nickel? Who'd a thunk it?!!
But the story didn't end there. I started wandering back toward the car when I thought I got a pretty solid silver hit. A quarter maybe? I didn't even look at the display, I just pulled out the Lesche tool and dug a five inch plug. Pulled her up and a crusty looking button popped out of the bottom of the plug.
The first thing I saw was the back and I saw that the shank had been half broken off long ago. It also had a very definite dent on one edge. I flipped it to see the front and could tell it had an emblem. Pulling off some more dirt I could now make out some letters that were definitely latin and what looked like a Palmetto tree, the SC symbol. "Cool," I thought and tossed in in my pouch and headed home for dinner and say to Shelley, "Hey, look at the stuff I just found."
Later I washed it off a bit and took a picture (bad one I know - I'm not good with the macro yet). I posted it in the Friends & Finds Forum, mostly to tell about the "Eye Spy" nickel.
Craig from Alabama posted a Civil War button site that showed several buttons like mine. Turns out it's a South Carolina State Seal button! This one definitely get a home in my treasure box. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
">Not a bad little local hunt <BIG><STRONG>AND</STRONG></BIG> I got off work early, to boot!
Ya'll Pass a Good Time!