RainorShine
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This is a Chinese 1 Mace and 4.4 Candareens coin
Today was glorious in the PNW with temps near 60 and blue skies. I was able to get out with (Paul)Buellride for a great day of detecting. Today was one of variety. My day started out with an 1898 Indian in the front yard of an abandoned house within 5 minutes of beginning my hunt. We worked down the block picking up the occasional wheat. Paul drew first silver blood with a Merc out of a curbstrip. Eventually, I was able to get a permission in a small yard. This location produced a 1939S Merc, so I was on the board.
As we moved, and in a section of curbstrip that Paul graciously "saved" for me, I got an ear catching 90-92 signal on the Manticore. Frequently, these signals turn out to be a wheat penny or a zincoln masquerading as a better target, but not this time. I removed the plug and still got a 93 signal. removing a bit more dirt at the bottom of the hole, I saw a silvery disk. I removed the coin, and scratched my head because I had never seen a coin like this before. After some research, we learned that it was indeed a coin from the Kwang Tung Province in China in the 1 Mace and 4.4 Candareens denomination. 80% silver (see the top image)! The coin was minted sometime between 1890 and 1908. Kind of like finding a Barber quarter. Don't know what it was doing in a Western WA curbstrip, but by it's depth, it was probably lost sometime in the early 1900's.
Shortly thereafter, Paul bagged his second silver of the day in the form of a Rosie. 2 on the day for him and continuing his multiple silvers per outing streak.
I then recovered the larger copper disk. The thing is almost smooth from corrosion, but I was able to determine that it was a token from a place called Pixie Kitchen on the Central Oregon Coast (in existence in the 1950's and '60's).
From there, I moved on to another permission, which was mostly bereft of signals, except for the 2 1/2 Cents in Trade token. Sadly, corrosion makes it impossible to determine what proprietor the token was for, but still pretty cool.
The last piece of silver came out of the final permission of the day. The small silver ring was down about 7-8 inches, and was really the only decent signal in the whole yard.
At the end of 8 hours of detecting, I recovered 6 wheats, a random selection of of clad and the above items. It was a great day out participating in this great hobby. I hope you folks back east begin to thaw out soon so we can see some more of your posts. GL&HH
Today was glorious in the PNW with temps near 60 and blue skies. I was able to get out with (Paul)Buellride for a great day of detecting. Today was one of variety. My day started out with an 1898 Indian in the front yard of an abandoned house within 5 minutes of beginning my hunt. We worked down the block picking up the occasional wheat. Paul drew first silver blood with a Merc out of a curbstrip. Eventually, I was able to get a permission in a small yard. This location produced a 1939S Merc, so I was on the board.
As we moved, and in a section of curbstrip that Paul graciously "saved" for me, I got an ear catching 90-92 signal on the Manticore. Frequently, these signals turn out to be a wheat penny or a zincoln masquerading as a better target, but not this time. I removed the plug and still got a 93 signal. removing a bit more dirt at the bottom of the hole, I saw a silvery disk. I removed the coin, and scratched my head because I had never seen a coin like this before. After some research, we learned that it was indeed a coin from the Kwang Tung Province in China in the 1 Mace and 4.4 Candareens denomination. 80% silver (see the top image)! The coin was minted sometime between 1890 and 1908. Kind of like finding a Barber quarter. Don't know what it was doing in a Western WA curbstrip, but by it's depth, it was probably lost sometime in the early 1900's.
Shortly thereafter, Paul bagged his second silver of the day in the form of a Rosie. 2 on the day for him and continuing his multiple silvers per outing streak.
I then recovered the larger copper disk. The thing is almost smooth from corrosion, but I was able to determine that it was a token from a place called Pixie Kitchen on the Central Oregon Coast (in existence in the 1950's and '60's).
From there, I moved on to another permission, which was mostly bereft of signals, except for the 2 1/2 Cents in Trade token. Sadly, corrosion makes it impossible to determine what proprietor the token was for, but still pretty cool.
The last piece of silver came out of the final permission of the day. The small silver ring was down about 7-8 inches, and was really the only decent signal in the whole yard.
At the end of 8 hours of detecting, I recovered 6 wheats, a random selection of of clad and the above items. It was a great day out participating in this great hobby. I hope you folks back east begin to thaw out soon so we can see some more of your posts. GL&HH
