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No Rolex today... Casio remains
- Thread starter rmptr
- Start date
Lots of digs = lots of fun.
The coin in the last pic looks kind of familiar - I dug something like that but not sure if it is the same till I check on it. The Temple just kind of rings a bell on a coin I dug.
Interesting information RMPTR.
The ground is drying out fast and some areas are already getting hard to dig. Hot weather just around the corner so my MD season may be over till latter in the year after the rain starts to make digging a bit easier - and temps are comfortable.
Till then I'll just keep enjoying posts like yours and many others.
WTG! r m p t r
The coin in the last pic looks kind of familiar - I dug something like that but not sure if it is the same till I check on it. The Temple just kind of rings a bell on a coin I dug.
Interesting information RMPTR.
The ground is drying out fast and some areas are already getting hard to dig. Hot weather just around the corner so my MD season may be over till latter in the year after the rain starts to make digging a bit easier - and temps are comfortable.
Till then I'll just keep enjoying posts like yours and many others.
WTG! r m p t r
Dimesworth
New member
Looks like some fair finds, RMPTR. You take some nice pictures also. And, you are a storehouse of information. Good post! I have to tell you this; I noticed that you are a little short of bottle caps and pull tabs. Now you are really in luck because I happen to have about 20 pounds of the afore mentioned. I could possibly let you have them for around $5.00 a pound....of course you would have to pay the shipping. And another thing, I really don't know you that well so I'd have to send them C.O.D. Let me know what you decide. Now these are Minnesota bottle caps and pull tabs, so they're well worth every dollar that you would pay. Dimesworth
Hay Rmptr,
I found a Timex in a park. Almost got the thing ticking but the mainspring was broken.
That's probably why it was thrown away. It did not have a band.
Funny thing is, I threw a Timex with a broken main spring in that area over 45 years ago.
It did not have a band. It looked just like the one I found.
The way I see it. That's probably the same watch.
I traded a large coke bottle for that watch.
You could get a nickel for one of those big coke bottles back then.
The watch worked fine. I carried it in my watch pocket until I over wound it and broke the main spring.
I was at the park with a friend and just chunked it.
HH,
I found a Timex in a park. Almost got the thing ticking but the mainspring was broken.
That's probably why it was thrown away. It did not have a band.
Funny thing is, I threw a Timex with a broken main spring in that area over 45 years ago.
It did not have a band. It looked just like the one I found.
The way I see it. That's probably the same watch.
I traded a large coke bottle for that watch.
You could get a nickel for one of those big coke bottles back then.
The watch worked fine. I carried it in my watch pocket until I over wound it and broke the main spring.
I was at the park with a friend and just chunked it.
HH,
Seasonal WX is a problem, Tab-nabit...
Here it will get over 110* in the summer.
But much of our soil is alluvial or sandy loam, which make for EZ diggin.
I mostly do parks, schools and playgrounds and rarely dig deeper than 6".
Things are drying out now, very much so.
Sprinkler water in the parks is only evident 1/2" to an inch down, then it's bone dry, shortly after they shut off.
You could hit them early, while it's still cooler and work into shade, which is good drop areas anyway...
I usually go out and about and keep up contacts, looking for work for our business first thing in the mornings, though...
Then I do some MD'ing wherever I happen to end up. Or I select a park, and look for work in that area before getting muddy knees!
Dimesworth, that sounds like a pretty good price on imported tabs!
Let me check with my financial manager, first, before I commit.
See how my luck runs, Tabdog?
I find the back of a broken Casio, YOU find a whole Timex!
Maybe I'll go dig a CZ and you'll find a nice big diamond.
Well, I dunno how I goofed up my attachment of photos and text this time...
It ain't much in the scheme of things, but I try to put up an entertaining post for y'all.
BTW, that 10 yen coin is the only one that has a depiction of a building on it.
And they have another, the 5 yen, that does not have the amount in Arabic.
Trivia...
HH
rmptr
Here it will get over 110* in the summer.
But much of our soil is alluvial or sandy loam, which make for EZ diggin.
I mostly do parks, schools and playgrounds and rarely dig deeper than 6".
Things are drying out now, very much so.
Sprinkler water in the parks is only evident 1/2" to an inch down, then it's bone dry, shortly after they shut off.
You could hit them early, while it's still cooler and work into shade, which is good drop areas anyway...
I usually go out and about and keep up contacts, looking for work for our business first thing in the mornings, though...
Then I do some MD'ing wherever I happen to end up. Or I select a park, and look for work in that area before getting muddy knees!
Dimesworth, that sounds like a pretty good price on imported tabs!
Let me check with my financial manager, first, before I commit.
See how my luck runs, Tabdog?
I find the back of a broken Casio, YOU find a whole Timex!
Maybe I'll go dig a CZ and you'll find a nice big diamond.
Well, I dunno how I goofed up my attachment of photos and text this time...
It ain't much in the scheme of things, but I try to put up an entertaining post for y'all.
BTW, that 10 yen coin is the only one that has a depiction of a building on it.
And they have another, the 5 yen, that does not have the amount in Arabic.
Trivia...
HH
rmptr
Yup!
I'm practicing for the BIG one!
...keeping my swingin' stamina up to par for the summer drop season.
An occupation coin? Now THAT sounds interesting! Did you research it?
Where were they minted? How many?
Never know what is gonna turn up, wherever...
Can you see where I skewered that 10 yen coin with my steel icepick?
It's far from a valuable coin, but I still wish I hadn't done that.:sad:
Nearly bombed out today... Someone with an ID machine left little but tabs behind.
Possibly me, running my other machine with the notch on.
So I guess I am gleaning, in my own wake!
HH
rmptr
I'm practicing for the BIG one!
...keeping my swingin' stamina up to par for the summer drop season.
An occupation coin? Now THAT sounds interesting! Did you research it?
Where were they minted? How many?
Never know what is gonna turn up, wherever...
Can you see where I skewered that 10 yen coin with my steel icepick?
It's far from a valuable coin, but I still wish I hadn't done that.:sad:
Nearly bombed out today... Someone with an ID machine left little but tabs behind.
Possibly me, running my other machine with the notch on.
So I guess I am gleaning, in my own wake!
HH
rmptr
An occupation coin? Now THAT sounds interesting! Did you research it?
Where were they minted? How many?
Philadelphia. Plenty. They were issued in lieu of native currency until the Phillipines, as a nation, could get up running after WWII.
Can you see where I skewered that 10 yen coin with my steel icepick?
It's far from a valuable coin, but I still wish I hadn't done that.
Stick a 3/16" brass brazing rod in a broom handle, affixing it with epoxy. Use that for a probe instead of that hardened icepick.
Where were they minted? How many?
Philadelphia. Plenty. They were issued in lieu of native currency until the Phillipines, as a nation, could get up running after WWII.
Can you see where I skewered that 10 yen coin with my steel icepick?
It's far from a valuable coin, but I still wish I hadn't done that.
Stick a 3/16" brass brazing rod in a broom handle, affixing it with epoxy. Use that for a probe instead of that hardened icepick.
Hi Pap,
Well, I'm neither one! LoL
Thing is, I've got a small bundle of brazing rod not even 10ft from me,
and could easily drill into a dowel on the press to make a non-marking probe.
Most of what I find is clad, and I usually slice n' pop coins with my icepick.
The brass is just too soft for that, so I haven't made one.
My last icepick was pretty hi-carbon steel, lasted quite a while, but just recently snapped off.
LoL It's kinda hard to find an icepick here in CA!
I ran across three store clerks who didn't know what an icepick WAS before I found one!
A carpenter's awl is twice as expensive, and too short...
When I found 'em at True Value I bought the only two.
Hecho en China, and they are lower in carbon and bend a little.
Oh well.
75% of my targets are 2 - 4" deep, so it's the best recovery method for me.
Still disappointing though, when I run across the odd coin that is somewhat interesting, and scar it.
If I went out to do any kind of relic search, I'd use a better method, though.
Recently bought an Ames 7 in 1 and a Fiskars, and I'm working toward an electronic pinpointer...
Here's my last digs...
I didn't get
Well, I'm neither one! LoL
Thing is, I've got a small bundle of brazing rod not even 10ft from me,
and could easily drill into a dowel on the press to make a non-marking probe.
Most of what I find is clad, and I usually slice n' pop coins with my icepick.
The brass is just too soft for that, so I haven't made one.
My last icepick was pretty hi-carbon steel, lasted quite a while, but just recently snapped off.
LoL It's kinda hard to find an icepick here in CA!
I ran across three store clerks who didn't know what an icepick WAS before I found one!
A carpenter's awl is twice as expensive, and too short...
When I found 'em at True Value I bought the only two.
Hecho en China, and they are lower in carbon and bend a little.
Oh well.
75% of my targets are 2 - 4" deep, so it's the best recovery method for me.
Still disappointing though, when I run across the odd coin that is somewhat interesting, and scar it.
If I went out to do any kind of relic search, I'd use a better method, though.
Recently bought an Ames 7 in 1 and a Fiskars, and I'm working toward an electronic pinpointer...
Here's my last digs...
I didn't get