Quick hunt while out of town

[407floyd]

Went out for a while after work and found the unusual belt buckle. Then I spent the rest of my time digging this pile of coins out of a 2 foot diameter area about 6 to 8" deep. 30 Lincoln Memorial cents, 5 wheat cents, 7 nickels, 2 dimes, and 1 quarter. Wheat cents were 1941 to 1958 and seemed to be the deepest. I was hoping to get some silver out of there, but not yet. I'm still getting weak signals all around the area, so there's probably more.

 

[Tired Rooster]

Thats quite a bit of coins in such a small area......I like the buckle! Good short hunt.....

 

[ken ward]

There could still be more coins their. Try A/M to see if that will get you any deeper. You just might get lucky...KEN

 

[Roland58]

I love that belt buckle! Can you tell what the base metal is? It looks like brass in the picture, but, hard to tell from just a photo. And the green stone, is it faceted? All in all, I would say you had a great hunt! Congrats!!

 

[407floyd]

The base metal for the buckle is brass Roland. I think the stone is actually glass. There's no opening behind it. And Ken, it's an area with nice thick turf and lots of pull tabs just below the surface. I tried digging a 1 foot plug and then tapered the hole outward below ground to get to the coins. I don't know if I should put to much more effort into digging a few more post-war coins at the risk of destroying the turf.

 

[ken ward]

The base metal for the buckle is brass Roland. I think the stone is actually glass. There's no opening behind it. And Ken, it's an area with nice thick turf and lots of pull tabs just below the surface. I tried digging a 1 foot plug and then tapered the hole outward below ground to get to the coins. I don't know if I should put to much more effort into digging a few more post-war coins at the risk of destroying the turf.

You are right. Don't mess it up for your self. Keep it neat and clean... KEN

 

[407floyd]

Went back to the same site and about 20 feet away from the first pile of coins I found this pile. This time it's 55 Lincoln Memorial cents, 4 Wheat cents, 2 nickels, and 2 dimes. Still no silver. The wheats were 1941, 1944, 1953, and 1958.

 

[Roland58]

That's weird......you are in the right time frame, for sure! Just have to get that coil over the silver ones!!

 

[MikeO]

Neat looking buckle.
You cleaned house on Wheaties.

 

[407floyd]

Cleaned the buckle and it looks pretty nice.

 

[knarfj]

Cleaned the buckle and it looks pretty nice.

To say the least!!