Dig O' The Day, 2/6/05

lordmarcovan

Here's pics of Monday's detector outing. I think it got up to 70 or so here. It was a gorgeous day.




















(The full stories are posted in Rounds #3 and #5 of the big Virtual Treasure Hunt on the MD forum.

You can tell that Indian had at least AU details when it hit the dirt a century ago. I'll bet it was a nice Red beauty. Bear in mind that these pictures show it exactly as it came out of the ground... uncleaned, except for a warm water rinse-n'-rub!

TUMUSS

VERY stuff LM!

dthigpen

Dude, that penny is all bumpy. How did you dig the Van out of the ground? It's in great condition, did you have grading vehicles handy?

lordmarcovan

I posted the van pic so everyone who has called me "lordminivan" over the years can see that Lord Marco's van is NOT, in fact, a minivan.

Go ahead. Ridicule my penny for havin' some lumps.

Yeah, she has a little acne, so what? Still pretty damn nice for a dug example, you gotta admit! And those are the uncleaned pics!

Compare it to some others I've found...

ElectricEye

very cool

Purple73

That one there was dropped early. It's still in great shape with the exception of corrosion of course but I aint lookin at that.

Thats a Great find Man!

ms70

pharmer

Hey, that's pretty cool, congrats on your finds, and thanks for sharing.

LanLord

If nothing else, that's some beautiful area you were digging in.

ibzman350

Hey I like that, pretty neat !!!




Herb

dwsblue

Very nice find, I wonder who lost it?

nesvt

70 degrees? I just cleared three feet of snow out of my driveway.
That's a nice find. I might have to sell some of my worn Morgan and Peace dollars to get a detector. A friend of mine is in the process of moving an 18th century school house. I think it would be a great place to check out (when the snow is gone and the ground isn't frozen).

Hedger

It is so neat to see something found after all those years buried beneath the soil. Makes you wonder who dropped it and when. That is a nice find if I may say so. I used to have a detector as a kid. Not high quality but I used to make my rounds around my old elementary school built in 1890 in N.J. I found all sorts of stuff and I'm sure there is more beneathe the surface than we realise.