The river gave up some goodies today.

[jabbo]

Yesterday I was there 4 hours and found only a Memorial penny. I guess it wasn't my day to detect. Today I did much better in less time. Dug up a King George II 1745 half penny and a KG 1751 penny. Both are in decent condition and were found in the gravel/stone bars along the river. Also 4 musket balls, some sinkers, and some clad. A few days ago in the same area I found 2 KG pennies with absolutely no detail and todays KG pennies from the same area have lots of detail, can't figure that out. During the 1700's there was a mill a little upstream, maybe that's why these 1700's coins were there. No silver but still it was a decent day. Jabbo

 

[Maxwedge]

VERY NICE HH-MARK

 

[JimmyCT]

Holy smokes Jabbo you made some incredible finds!

 

[jabbo]

Earthly, In the 13 Colonies, King Georges were used everywhere in the 1700's and a lot were lost. It's quite common to find them in NJ. This might be hard to believe, but I find more KG pennies than U.S. large pennies. I don't search parks anymore, I go where I think I have a better chance of finding old U.S and colonial coins. But unlike searching in parks, many times I come home with no keepers at all.

 

[mudpuppy]

Those are super cool! What rig are you running in the water? Thats amazing work, jabbo!
Mud

 

[jabbo]

Mud, I now use my new X-Terra705 everywhere, with 9" 3khz coil. It's better for deeper coins than the Coin$trike, but the C$ is no slouch. I really believe if I was using the C$ last week when I found the 1820 dime I would have passed it by. The X-Terra gave a jumpy ID on it, but good enough to dig. The dime was in the river gravel/stones bar and I'd say it was not laying flat, but at a steep angle. These two King Georges were in another gravel bar nearby. Could possibly be virgin territory.

 

[bob.oz]

WOW!!!Those coins are a sweet find.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

You are in the zone now... nice score....

 

[JimmyCT]

Jabbo - You have some good hunting areas!

Earthly, In the 13 Colonies, King Georges were used everywhere in the 1700's and a lot were lost. It's quite common to find them in NJ. This might be hard to believe, but I find more KG pennies than U.S. large pennies. I don't search parks anymore, I go where I think I have a better chance of finding old U.S and colonial coins. But unlike searching in parks, many times I come home with no keepers at all.

 

[kschae4]

Dave, wow, another great recovery of goodies. WTG. Glad you got out before these last two days of torrential rains.

 

[mcb613]

They sure are done funny looking projectiles with the holes in the ends. Maybe fired from one of those new fangled Rocket rods. .

 

[frankj3]

Way to go.......drooling with jealousy!!!!

HH y'all.

Frank