May07
phut
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Some live action pictures
Thursday, May 3rd. I'm working close to one of the corn fields I like to hunt when I want a relaxing, easy hunt. I had my camera in my van that day so I figured I would take you all on one of my hunts.
This is the first target of the hour and a half hunt.
It's in this clump. I'll squash it lightly with my boot and see what pops out.
There it is. It looks like a ceremonial ring from the aluminum worshipping tribe called 'Pabst'.
The next target gave a solid reading.
I've never found gold, rings, or foil when the meter reads here. It's usually a .22 shell.
Not a .22 shell this time.
It's a broken flat button.
It was close to sunset. Never stare at the sun while taking a picture, especially if you are looking for pointy rocks in the shade.
This is a good sized field.
Some of the things that are hard to see after you stare into the sun.
I don't normally dig the large rusty things in this field, but it was close to a pottery shard, and I wanted the picture of the pair.
This is everything. The sun was set and it was hard to get a focus.
When the finds of the day are two broken flat buttons, and a rusty buckle, I call it a skunk.... Oh well... one of these days I'll take you along and I'll find a killer, dateless, King George Half Penny slug
On to the weekend.
Saturday I went back to the same field, but the mission was pointy rocks. Didn't find any... only flakes. Skunk number 3 of may.
Sunday I had better luck at a site that really needs more attention.
These are the finds from both days.
Sundays best...Two large coppers, two shield nickels, two V nickels, two IHCs, and some cool relics.
1831 Russia 5 Kopeks. This thing is large. It pegged my meter to the .50/1$. I thought I had my first large, bust silver.
1808 US One Cent
1868 US 5 cents
These should clean up nice after a day or two in olive oil.
Thursday, May 3rd. I'm working close to one of the corn fields I like to hunt when I want a relaxing, easy hunt. I had my camera in my van that day so I figured I would take you all on one of my hunts.
This is the first target of the hour and a half hunt.
It's in this clump. I'll squash it lightly with my boot and see what pops out.
There it is. It looks like a ceremonial ring from the aluminum worshipping tribe called 'Pabst'.
The next target gave a solid reading.
I've never found gold, rings, or foil when the meter reads here. It's usually a .22 shell.
Not a .22 shell this time.
It's a broken flat button.
It was close to sunset. Never stare at the sun while taking a picture, especially if you are looking for pointy rocks in the shade.
This is a good sized field.
Some of the things that are hard to see after you stare into the sun.
I don't normally dig the large rusty things in this field, but it was close to a pottery shard, and I wanted the picture of the pair.
This is everything. The sun was set and it was hard to get a focus.
When the finds of the day are two broken flat buttons, and a rusty buckle, I call it a skunk.... Oh well... one of these days I'll take you along and I'll find a killer, dateless, King George Half Penny slug
On to the weekend.
Saturday I went back to the same field, but the mission was pointy rocks. Didn't find any... only flakes. Skunk number 3 of may.
Sunday I had better luck at a site that really needs more attention.
These are the finds from both days.
Sundays best...Two large coppers, two shield nickels, two V nickels, two IHCs, and some cool relics.
1831 Russia 5 Kopeks. This thing is large. It pegged my meter to the .50/1$. I thought I had my first large, bust silver.
1808 US One Cent
1868 US 5 cents
These should clean up nice after a day or two in olive oil.
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WTG! It was fun to have a "virtual walkalong" with The Mighty Phut!
Maybe some day I will be able to do it in person.
Lafayette Grading Set
When I look at all the details of this field, southern exposure, large trees on the perimeter, its proximity to the ocean, etc., I'd guess that this has been a crop field for several hundred years.
Ricko, I hope there are a lot of pointy rocks in this area. I enjoy finding them as much as I enjoy finding large silver
The site usually only produces mid 1800s to early 1900s. I got a big surprise on this hunt.
The site has 1700s also...... Better hurry Rob
1738 King George, and the dateless slug that I was supposed to find when I had my camera.
The 1738 was about 8 inches down and the slug was in the same hole, but half way to china. Roughly 18 inches.
This shoe buckle was in two seperate holes about a foot apart.
What was that site originally? A town or commune of some sort? You dig any deeper and you're going to need a backhoe.
Gary
Northern California
Minelab Sovereign GT with 180 meter and Sunray probe.
Morning I went to the site that I mentioned earlier in this thread. I gave it some more attention.
The smallest buckle I've found so far.
1863 US cent. I was surprised at how this one cleaned up. CuNi IHCs and New England soil do not play well together.
1884 US $1 Another first to add to the folder.
I have no clue. It's solid pewter.
Afternoon
This piece and a stinkin' Lincoln was all I found in two hours.
It looks like German to me.
It's so close to being trash that I call the afternoon a
I think next week sometime is my 3 year metal detecting anniversary. I'll have to check my paperwork for date of purchase.
<< <i>It's so close to being trash that I call the afternoon a
Uh... not so fast, there, Bucko...
I once found a Rev War Dutch lead bale seal that wasn't dissimilar to that, and the inscription looked German at first glance. Then I found an identical one pictured in Ivor Noel Hume's Artifacts Of Colonial America. Apparently it was a seal on a bale of wool blanket material that was shipped from a particular city in the Netherlands to the Continental troops during the war, if I remember correctly.
Now, I'll grant you that the lettering on yours looks a bit more modern than mine (and I can't make out what they say), and it might also be a different kind of seal, but don't dismiss it yet. Those can be very nice relics, and I would imagine some end up in museums.
Morgan dollar? No comment, except to say that there went your "big silver" jinx- and then some! OK, I'll say it: you suck so immensely that I have run out of clever metaphors for your suckage, or words to describe it.
He posts a skunk icon. Pah! A suck icon would be more appropriate.
That, or it's buried in the clutter. Can you say, "spring cleaning time"? Ladymarcovan can!
Anyway, it was something about wool blankets from Leyden, which I guess is spelled Leiden now? I had a Dutch coworker who tried to read it, but he said it was rather archaic Dutch.
What is rather interesting about this particular seal (aside from the history I learned in the Hume book), is the way it was broken open. I believe these were crimped shut with a pliers-like tool. I would imagine that most which are found do not have the connector to the two halves intact, like mine does.
I found it in Mt. Pleasant, SC, on a site where IndianHeadMan and I later hunted when we were both in the area.
So don't dismiss your little piece of lead "trash" so hastily. I learned this lesson once, when I found a little ovoid brass tube that I thought was your basic widget/whatzit, and I shrugged and tossed it in the junk drawer. Years later, I realized it was the rammer guide off a British Brown Bess musket, and by then I had long forgotten where I'd found it.
And of course you've all heard the story about another unrecognized "whatzit" that languished in the same junk drawer for a decade. Heaven knows what still lies unrecognized and unappreciated in my "dug junque" drawer. And pawing through your junk drawer is something I would dream fondly of.
Edit: I found my Hume book but didn't see the picture of this seal. I must've seen the picture in Calver & Bolton's History Written With Pick And Shovel, instead.
<< <i>I think next week sometime is my 3 year metal detecting anniversary. >>
This is what is particularly frustrating and disgusting about your particular suckiness.
So far, so fast. You suck.
Awesome find!!! What a thrill that must have been! We need more details!
The mighty Phut seems to be a man of extremes only:
Some time back he was whining about "only" finding dime sized silver...
... and then he dug an 8R piece!
This time around he makes a leap from a string of Barber and Merc dimes and pulls out a Morgan!!
YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John, I found a spot that has mushrooms like your icon. They look exactly the same, but are yellow/orange. Do they have to be gray to be good?
Morg details... It read in the .50/$1 range, but did not blast my eardrums like the huge Russian coin did, and it was only about 4 inches down. When I first saw the large, dirty silver, my heart did skip a beat, but......the site has produced many coins from late 1700s to 1868, and there was supposed to be a seated lady on the obverse when I rinsed it in the puddle. I can't complain though. It'll have a spot in my 'One of each' folder, and the way things are going, it may be my only silver this month.
On to this past weekend.
Saturday- The weatherman said 30% chance of showers, so I covered the important parts of my machine with plastic bags. It rained 100% of the four hours I was out in the fields.
Everything. Top left is trash. I have a spot at this site that drop off all the trash when my pouch gets heavy, but figured I'd keep it this time to include in the picture.
Keepers? Not really, but good enough for the junque box.
I think it's a broken watch key.
Broken buckle.
1843 New Brunswick Half Penny Token. Another one for the type folder.
A nice chunk of flint. Probably dropped by a hunter.
Sunday- Weatherman said 30% chance of showers. I stayed home. It barely drizzled
Monday- After work I hit a corn field for a couple hours. Nearly 1/2 acre grid. A lot faster than I like to go, but the crop will be popping up soon.
Not everything. No free ride for the trash this time.
Bottom row
1934 Dog Tax(at least they were honest, about what it really is, back then), 180? US large cent, 173? King George copper, 1920 US small cent.
G.
Saturday- I got lazy. Didn't hunt. No finds, no skunk.
Sunday- Went back to the site that the Russian and Morgan coins came from. I've hit the spot pretty hard and I brought a friend once, so the site is getting slow. Not dead yet though.
The Merc came from another site.
1839 US Half Dime
1865 US 2 cent. I cleaned the date a little, but the coin needs some bath time before I do any more. The orange color on the top right tells me that corner is not going to look good when it's cleaned.
1926 US dime. Found Thursday in a corn field behind a house I'm working on.
Monday
1806 Ireland Farthing with initials JCS stamped on reverse
There is an interesting story that goes with this piece, but the clues would reveal the location of the site. This site has given me many early 1800s pieces, and I'm not ready to battle claim jumpers yet.
It's good to see others are able to get out. Unfortunately I've been far too busy to even sneak an hour in.
My calendar is looking good for this weekend though. I really have the need to get diggin!
Found these in a book. A mouse beat me to one of them. 1908, 1922 and 1945
Front of the 1945.
1920 US quarter
My guess on the next two pieces is Early 1700s, maybe earlier.
Silver cufflinks.
Batwing buckle. WooHoo, my second. I found the first on a site that a friend found 2 1600s tree coins. I gave him the buckle for display purposes.
I forgot to add this piece to the last batch of pics. It was found at my favorite pointy rock site(which has been a big let-down this season). It ain't pointy, but nature didn't make it smooth with a groove. Any ideas what it is?
Some of you are probably tired of seeing my posts, so I won't post anymore
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amazing finds here. Thanks for sharing. Please keep them coming. We need to keep
this forum entertained.
<< <i>the site is getting slow >>
"Slow" by your standards is "super hotspot" by mine, apparently.
I would be absolutely thrilled with any of these recent finds.... old silver cufflinks, old Irish farthing, US half dime, the watch key with an elephant on it(?) (I really like that one!), halfpenny token, etc........
It's particularly the variety of interesting stuff you find that's amazing; great US coins, old foreign coins, old jewelry, cool relics.... grr......
-Z
I'm not sure I've seen anyone suck as much in a month as Phut did in May 2007.
Note that his finds for the month consist of several posts throughout the thread.
-Z
holy carp! Phut was a champ! I didn't get much into this site until later in Phut's posts so I missed a lot of these. What a great bunch of finds with great diversity. He was a man of few words, but he knew where to find the oldies. It'd be cool to unearth some more of his threads to see what else he pulled out of the ground.
pcgs69- in his day, the late Tim Buck ("phut") was your predecessor as reigning champion and king of this forum. He was a man of relatively few words, as the "May07" title here indicates. It was good to see a Mighty Phut thread at the top again. Thanks for the thread resurrection, Zot.
Take a good close look at the photo in the OP of his "2012" thread!. He sure went out with a bang. I'll miss him. Had the pleasure of meeting him once- he came down here to GA for a visit and I took him to one of my relic hunting sites. He scored a 1799 half-real there.
Take a good close look at the photo in the OP of his "2012" thread!
I had missed that one. Thanks for linking it!
Looks like 3 Mass silvers, seated quarter, 2 silver 3p, WLH, etc... Wow.
Typical Phut with the "2012" thread title, just a few words: "some silver finds..."
PS. LM: I actually also re-read your story about Phut's visit (Southern Hospitality for a Northern Digger) from 2006. Looks like the pics in it have gone missing.
PS. LM: I actually also re-read your story about Phut's visit (Southern Hospitality for a Northern Digger) from 2006. Looks like the pics in it have gone missing.
Sadly that seems to be the case with a lot of my older threads since the forum changeover. The pictures were hosted here on CU as attachments, before I started using Photobucket.
It would appear they're gone forever, since I had a perfect storm of hard drive failures about five years ago (when both my primary PC and backup failed in the same week)