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Some goodie's from the last few weeks!!

loditomloditom Posts: 684
in Metal Detecting
Have got out a few time's here and there since my oldest daughter started
playing winter soccer league and I'm assit.coach,so I am a little busyimage

So a few week's ago I was hitting this lot and wasn't finding much but rivot's
and bottlecapsimagenot finding much I was heading out and spotted a unusual marble.
Maybe somebody can give some help with this one as I don't know what it is made out of??

A few day's later I went back to that spot just knowing there was something good just waiting there
for me to find.Well it showed itself a half hour later and kicking a rock
out of the way.It was a 1857 seated dime in rough shape,but I don't careimage
Then this weekend out hunting with a few buddies I scooped up this nice 1849 seated half dime
in really good shape after that all I found was half of some old spectales and alot of trash!!

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here's the marble

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HH,Tom
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Comments

  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Nice! Glass marble perhaps?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tom,
    The marble looks like a Bennington, a clay marble... but hard to tell for sure. The surface looks aged and the finish cracked. (I am a marble collector) Some more light could help. Nice coins. Cheers, RickO
  • RiccarRiccar Posts: 789
    WTG Tomster!
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  • DUBBADUBBA Posts: 935
    handsome finds....hh
    "see ya at the beach"
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  • Lamborghini518Lamborghini518 Posts: 147
    sweet finds
    Happy Hunting!image
  • CgbCgb Posts: 710 ✭
    That '57 dime look like it had a rough couple of years in the dirt... I have always wanted to go metal detecting, but I don't have the time, or a detector!
  • loditomloditom Posts: 684
    Thank's all for the replie's.

    Tightbudget it's definatly not glass.

    Ricko I have some benningtons and this do's not have any of the spot's where
    it sat while being baked.I'm wondering if it's some kind of stone.
    Did they make any out of stone??
    I will see about getting some better pic's and repost them.

    HH,Tom
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tom, there definitely are stone marbles... quartz is a favorite... but many others as well. It could be that... look forward to some other pictures... there are entire sets of stone marbles (modern) available... but there are old ones as well - those are much more highly prized. Cheers, RickO
  • sonoranmonsoonsonoranmonsoon Posts: 2,078 ✭✭
    very nice hit.
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