Tom_in_CA
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Got out to one of my "back-pocket" sites yesterday. This site has given up about 8 or 10 reales to be over the years, a few early seateds, a $5 gold, and all sort of period buttons and relics. Buddies of mine have pulled similar coins from the site.
It's getting pretty stingy these days (have to explore further and further into outer-lying zones), but was able to eek out a few keepers yesterday.
Notice the giant piece of blacksmithed "green copper". That was a foot down, and took me 10 minutes to get out of the hard ground. Kept hoping it was the top of a box full of coins, haha
As "meaty" as the real is, yet ... for some strange reason, the place where the date would be is either worn off, or a scratch was there, or ?
And the phoenix buttons are always a fun find. Circulated on the west coast from the 1810s to the 1830s or so.
It's getting pretty stingy these days (have to explore further and further into outer-lying zones), but was able to eek out a few keepers yesterday.
Notice the giant piece of blacksmithed "green copper". That was a foot down, and took me 10 minutes to get out of the hard ground. Kept hoping it was the top of a box full of coins, haha
As "meaty" as the real is, yet ... for some strange reason, the place where the date would be is either worn off, or a scratch was there, or ?
And the phoenix buttons are always a fun find. Circulated on the west coast from the 1810s to the 1830s or so.