eyeball finds
ColinCMR
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recently picked up an ecuador 10c and UK 2pence near a parking meter
thats always fun
anybody else have any recent eyeball finds?
thats always fun
anybody else have any recent eyeball finds?
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ColinCMR
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I pick up the pottery, unless it's plain white. The sherds look good in an aquarium.
Speaking of eyeball finds, I haven't been fossil hunting lately but my buddy has brought me a few more nice shark teeth, including a few biggies. They recently graded the dirt road he lives on, and the dirt in the road is actually dredge material from the fossil-bearing deposits at the bottom of the sound, so it's got lots of goodies. It's raining today, so maybe that will wash out some more.
Cool finds, it's always fun to find useful objects
LM - neat about the source aggregate having fossils!
I picked a very nice gastropod (snail) fossil out of a limestone this fall on a field trip, about 400 million years old and looks like it was alive yesterday
Usually if it's smaller then a quarter I leave it be. Rarely find quarters here in Atlanta, as the homeless population is rather high (big city big problems)
That said ... I have found some nice bills. Once I found a $20, and another time I found a $100. The Benjamin was lying right outside a bank, too. I was actually on my way to the ATM when I found it. I felt really bad picking it up but, it was a Sunday, so I knew there were no bank employees inside, and there was not one single car in the parking lot. I looked around for a while and even walked down to the street curb, to see if anyone was coming back for it, and waited a few minutes. Not a single person. So yeah, that was the highest-value eyeball find I guess. But the coolest was the 1886 shilling that I posted on here last Fall. Found that baby down on the Gulf shore. That's the coolest thing I ever found.
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While walking along the road in Schenley Park (Pittsburgh, PA) last Friday at lunch, I saw a small disc sticking partially out of the ground (I always try to watch the ground for round objects that could be coins, have found quite a few laying in the dirt). I have found several interesting items over the last few months along this road (several wheat cents, an old shoe shine tag). I picked the disc up and rubbed some of the dirt off. It was pretty crusty. I could see that it was not a penny, it looked like there were a border of stars around it. I saw a faint "V" on the back. It was a barber nickel! Once I got back to work, I eagerly went searching for something to clean it sufficiently so that I could get the date. I washed it and used some GoJo hand cleaner on it, which removed enough of the crud to get a date. 1903! I couldn't believe it!
I will definitely be detecting this area once it starts to warm up. This coin was sitting right on top, there has to be some good silver finds in the area.
It's my first Barber coin of any denomination that I have found and the oldest coin found searching to date. This supplants a 1902 Wheatie that I found in the Park a few years ago with the detector. I was able to remove a good bit of the crust (put it in a potato). Not worth much at all, but how often do you find a 110 year old coin just walking?
Clad
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While walking along the road in Schenley Park (Pittsburgh, PA) last Friday at lunch, I saw a small disc sticking partially out of the ground (I always try to watch the ground for round objects that could be coins, have found quite a few laying in the dirt). I have found several interesting items over the last few months along this road (several wheat cents, an old shoe shine tag). I picked the disc up and rubbed some of the dirt off. It was pretty crusty. I could see that it was not a penny, it looked like there were a border of stars around it. I saw a faint "V" on the back. It was a barber nickel! Once I got back to work, I eagerly went searching for something to clean it sufficiently so that I could get the date. I washed it and used some GoJo hand cleaner on it, which removed enough of the crud to get a date. 1903! I couldn't believe it!
I will definitely be detecting this area once it starts to warm up. This coin was sitting right on top, there has to be some good silver finds in the area.
It's my first Barber coin of any denomination that I have found and the oldest coin found searching to date. This supplants a 1902 Wheatie that I found in the Park a few years ago with the detector. I was able to remove a good bit of the crust (put it in a potato). Not worth much at all, but how often do you find a 110 year old coin just walking?
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That's pretty cool. I've made some neat eyeball finds over the years, but in terms of older coins, not quite as much. Twice I have eyeballed Buffalo nickels under similar circumstances as the V-nickel you just found.
Collector of US Small Size currency, Atlanta FRNs, and Georgia nationals since 1977. Researcher of small size US type - seeking serial number data for all FRN star notes, Series 1928 to 1934-D. Life member SPMC.
I'm assuming it went in and got stuck, then eventually made its way out after everyone left.
The phone I took them with broke but I'm sure I can find them... More later,
Edited to add:
This is what I was looking at when I saw it:
Walked up and saw this:
Ray
I would say a profitable couple of hours sorting and rolling.
And the oldest coin I've ever found.
Beats my oldest dug coin (a 1658 Spanish copper) by more than 1,200 years!
Of course I personally believe (despite the coin's advanced age) that it was dropped in the late 1700s or early 1800s, based on the site where I found it, and the other stuff I picked up very close by. So an ancient coin, but in a colonial era context.