Michigan KGIII - Curtesy of an Aussie Homesteader

[bottlecap4u]

Visited one of my favorite bushwack sites yesterday in sunny 60-degree Michigan. Its an 1840s ruin now on state land settled by an Aussie family long gone by the early 1900s. Aside from the assortment of iron doodads, found an old compact, crotal, buckle w/missing face plate, dunno, if anyone knows that one shout out, 1888 IHP and a nice surprise for these parts...1806 KG III. My first old British, pretty stoked on that one since it outdates the homestead by 40 years. Happy days all.

 

[Tpmetal]

Very nice! Love crotals, does it still jingle for ya?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

East coast colonial coppers : Sick.

And no, don't bother me with "Michigan isn't east coast". Sure it is ! Everyone knows that : Everything east of the Mississippi River is : East coast.

 

[Tpmetal]

East coast colonial coppers : Sick.

And no, don't bother me with "Michigan isn't east coast". Sure it is ! Everything east of the Mississippi is : East coast.

Still willing to trade all my coppers one for one for your gold coins tom....shoot on second thought ill even give you a deal two for one

 

[bottlecap4u]

Very nice! Love crotals, does it still jingle for ya

yupper, I clean these out as soon as I find them before the dirt becomes like concrete.

 

[bottlecap4u]

East coast colonial coppers : Sick

west coast beach jewelry hoarders...sick..., come rummage in our overgrown ruins for a day to scrub out a coin or 2, forget your visions of bling...bling though. Roughing it out here in Michigan.

 

[markinmichigan]

Right! It's all good and we're having fun.

Mark in Michigan

 

[hoser]

Roughing it out here in Michigan.

Yep, and I might add the best time is the first two week's in May.

 

[John Madill]

East coast colonial coppers : Sick.

And no, don't bother me with "Michigan isn't east coast". Sure it is ! Everyone knows that : Everything east of the Mississippi River is : East coast.

I believe it was Horace Greeley who said "Go west young man."
And he was talking about Ohio which is east of my home state of Michigan.

I gotta settle for a Midwest designation for the Wolverine State.

 

[FliesOnly]

Very nice indeed!! My oldest "foreign" coin is a Canadian dime from the 50s, I believe.
Finding a KG III would be spectacular!!
Are you in southern Michigan, cuz up where I am in the middle of state, despite the warm weather and lack of snow, our ground is still pretty frozen.

 

[bottlecap4u]

Are you in southern Michigan, cuz up where I am in the middle of state, despite the warm weather and lack of snow, our ground is still pretty frozen

south-central, ground was frozen yesterday but today was like cutting cake, today...whacked a small patch of brambles out of the way...pulled a teeny-tiny crotal and early 1800s flat button (W. Wallis treble orange), going to finish up tomorrow with my buddy. here's a pic of the home foundation, love these old sites.

 

[hoser]

WOW! that almost looks like Kudzu vines. Is that just random stones or is it an old stone fence?

 

[bottlecap4u]

OW that almost looks like Kudzu vines. s that just random stones or is it an old stone fence?

foundation stones, in the middle is the cellar. These pioneers dug their cellars, gathered local rocks to line the cellar walls/support their foundation then built their starter cabins. you're seeing the original stone cellar/foundation to their 1840s starter cabin, they added to it later, another wing and what I believe was a kitchen area in the back. Amazing strength these folks had to hack life out of literally the wilderness back then.

 

[hoser]

Man! I really need to proofread before I hit the post button.
That is so cool. To have remnants left from the original dwelling is awesome. Keep pounding that place.

 

[Digger RJ]

Visited one of my favorite bushwack sites yesterday in sunny 60-degree Michigan. Its an 1840s ruin now on state land settled by an Aussie family long gone by the early 1900s. Aside from the assortment of iron doodads, found an old compact, crotal, buckle w/missing face plate, dunno, if anyone knows that one shout out, 1888 IHP and a nice surprise for these parts...1806 KG III. My first old British, pretty stoked on that one since it outdates the homestead by 40 years. Happy days all.

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Swing4TheRing]

East coast colonial coppers : Sick.

And no, don't bother me with "Michigan isn't east coast". Sure it is ! Everyone knows that : Everything east of the Mississippi River is : East coast.

I live on the West coast of Michigan!!