Interesting surprise in the yard

[BlackX]

It thawed out a bit yesterday and my back was feeling better, so I got out in the yard for a bit. First coin I've found in the yard for a while now--last thing of interest (that wasn't a nail, screw, or piece of flashing) was a very rusty jack (toy caltrop). Sure wasn't what I expected though.

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From what I've been able to determine, it's a '81-85 shekel but I have no idea if there's a date on there or all '81-85 shekels were the same dies. [edit] One thing I found interesting while looking for info was that pretty much all Israeli coins echo something from ancient coins. In this case, the coin motif was from a "coin minted during the war of the Jews against Rome (66 - 70 C.E.)."

 

[NH Bob]

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[Old Sox]

Dang, that is a slick find!

 

[BlackX]

Most interesting thing I've found in the yard yet. It can go with the other foreign coins I've founds so far in the past 19(?) months of detecting (not counting Canadian): a Finnish coin (where a 250-year old mill was), a couple different size Euros (between the sidewalk and curb near the house Longfellow lived in for a while), and a few Italian coins (along the edge of another Cambridge old park).

I keep hoping I'll find some old silver in the yard--I found a '42 Merc across the fence in a neighbors yard before he rototilled it--but all the old coins I've found so far in my yard have been wheaties. But most of the time now I'm just finding 2-4 nails/screws for each iffy signal I dig. This was the first coin I've found in a long time but this one wasn't iffy--just in a spot where I have lilies growing so normally can't detect there most of the year when the ground is thawed. The yard's so full of iron trash--which makes more sense now that I learned about the fire in the early '30s--I can't even make a coin garden, though I'm thinking of simply digging up a big area and running the dirt through a screen and then detecting the dirt to catch the small stuff that makes it through the screen before I put it back in so I can do do some coin testing. I've yet to learn what a really deep coin sounds like on any of the 3 detectors I have.

I'd love to hear some sound files--and perhaps some video of how the screen reacts at the same time--of some deepies. Everything I've found on the net so far has been pretty clear signals and those are usually pretty easy for me. Maybe here a little later in the spring Bob can show me what they sound like.

 

[SNOWY]

That's a very interesting coin Rich !

I never saw one of those before...