Critterhunter
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These pics are a re-post from two to three years ago or so, but if it helps the effort to get finds posted in this forum then I guess it's worth throwing up again...
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Some Of My Finds Over Last Three Years Or So
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The civil war gold gilded button was a friend's find in the woods. What a shocker as we live in North East Ohio. Only thing I can figure is some old vet was wearing his coat in the woods hunting or something.
The seated quarter and 3 cent piece had virtually no wear that I could see under a loop. My camera took some rather blured pictures of them so they look like they have some wear when in reality they didn't.
The seated quarter and 3 cent piece had virtually no wear that I could see under a loop. My camera took some rather blured pictures of them so they look like they have some wear when in reality they didn't.
Critter,nice photos and finds.Thanks Ron
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Really good finds Critter! That ring with the Marquis cut stone/diamond must of made your heart stop a second. I'll agree that the seated quarter and trime are really sharp. I saw a friend with a GT pull an 1842 quarter (Philly-scarce one) from at least 9" that looked almost as nice as yours. His was no less than an XF 40. I can accurately grade most all U.S. Federal & colonial coinage and I was so glad he left the dirt clinging to it. It amazes me when something as nice as yours turns up.
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deepdiger60
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Excellent finds Critter 
Jim
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Thanks, yea...the silver ring with the diamond had my heart going but the stone is fake. It was on edge. First day I think I used the 12x10, but the high/low tone was distinctive of coins on edge from several angles. You'll never mistake that tone from trash when you hear it enough. I dug the whole and it was stuck in the side of the hole standing on end.
The other silver ring that is broken in the picture was at a beach in an old area of mostly mud at the outskirts of the "new" swimming area. I heared a coin signal, and roughly 9 or 10" deep in the mixture of wet sand and mud out popped that ring! Can you imagine that?! As thin of a silver ring as that and it still gave me a hard loud coin signal that deep. Tells you that a silver dime could have been easily MUCH deeper and I would still have hit it hard. Of course that depends on soil and minerals. Oddly, I think the BBS machines get even MORE depth in the sand or soil mixed sand than the already outstanding depth they get on land, and that's in mineralized sand too. Tells me why many beach hunters are BBS guys all the way.
The gold ring turned out to be plated but had my heart going for a while.
The seated quarter was WAY out in the middle of no where in the woods. Same deal with the silver 3 cent piece. Both had me gasping for air. The seated quarter book value was around $1350 according to an old book, but it had a few nasty dings on the edge that were not shiney so I think I didn't make them. Same deal with the three cent piece. No wear at all and the book showed around $200 to I think $300 for that. Oddly, I've dug a lot of silver dimes like barbers in the woods that many had nicks on both sides of the edge of the coin. I *think* hunters used them as a screwdriver to set their gun sites. The dings are offset like that on both sides like it was used to turn a screw.
Woods hunting takes some experience, and even knowing what to look for (such as high spots or even ones a foot off the ground to pitch a tent, or water holes, or ridge spines were people traveled, or places to get down off a ridge)...So even if you know what to look for...Despite that, you can go for hours with little in the way of hits even above iron. Despite that, the QUALITY of coins is MUCH better than the quality. Hunt through the woods and look for any iron areas, then work those areas as they show spots of human activity. You have to read the land. Look for easy spots to get down off a ridge spin. High spots even a foot higher to camp in the rain, or especially even dried up water sources where they camped and watered the horses in years gone by. Slope off a steep ridge? Work that slope! As a coin could fall out of a wagon or pocket as they rode a horse, rode a wagon, or just walked down that spot. Many ridge tops were used as highways back in the way, as well as good places to walk looking for game down below. Those are some of my best wood spots. Also look for cliffs that block the prevaling wind from wind or snow. In the winter they would often set camp there.
The other silver ring that is broken in the picture was at a beach in an old area of mostly mud at the outskirts of the "new" swimming area. I heared a coin signal, and roughly 9 or 10" deep in the mixture of wet sand and mud out popped that ring! Can you imagine that?! As thin of a silver ring as that and it still gave me a hard loud coin signal that deep. Tells you that a silver dime could have been easily MUCH deeper and I would still have hit it hard. Of course that depends on soil and minerals. Oddly, I think the BBS machines get even MORE depth in the sand or soil mixed sand than the already outstanding depth they get on land, and that's in mineralized sand too. Tells me why many beach hunters are BBS guys all the way.
The gold ring turned out to be plated but had my heart going for a while.
The seated quarter was WAY out in the middle of no where in the woods. Same deal with the silver 3 cent piece. Both had me gasping for air. The seated quarter book value was around $1350 according to an old book, but it had a few nasty dings on the edge that were not shiney so I think I didn't make them. Same deal with the three cent piece. No wear at all and the book showed around $200 to I think $300 for that. Oddly, I've dug a lot of silver dimes like barbers in the woods that many had nicks on both sides of the edge of the coin. I *think* hunters used them as a screwdriver to set their gun sites. The dings are offset like that on both sides like it was used to turn a screw.
Woods hunting takes some experience, and even knowing what to look for (such as high spots or even ones a foot off the ground to pitch a tent, or water holes, or ridge spines were people traveled, or places to get down off a ridge)...So even if you know what to look for...Despite that, you can go for hours with little in the way of hits even above iron. Despite that, the QUALITY of coins is MUCH better than the quality. Hunt through the woods and look for any iron areas, then work those areas as they show spots of human activity. You have to read the land. Look for easy spots to get down off a ridge spin. High spots even a foot higher to camp in the rain, or especially even dried up water sources where they camped and watered the horses in years gone by. Slope off a steep ridge? Work that slope! As a coin could fall out of a wagon or pocket as they rode a horse, rode a wagon, or just walked down that spot. Many ridge tops were used as highways back in the way, as well as good places to walk looking for game down below. Those are some of my best wood spots. Also look for cliffs that block the prevaling wind from wind or snow. In the winter they would often set camp there.