Hey to all, well got a chance to hunt out at the old park again for about and hour and a half, like going there it's big area and quite. Been there several times and always find something good. Keep going back there because something tells me there is more to find and it's going to be good. Well I wasn't there five minutes and bam, a real good signal on a dime, sound was a little quite so I figured it was beyond 4 inches down. Well I cut my first plug at about that depth and layed it over and sure enough staring right at me, still in the dirt, my second Mercury dime, 1944, my first earlier in the year was a 1917. For some reason I really like this coin, I hope I find more of them.
Well as you can imagine still hard at it, pulling out a total of $1.24 in clad, so it seems to be going well still. Then for some reason for the next 30 minutes I was pulling out the stuff we all get tired of, pull tabs and aluminum, bu that's part of it. Was starting to get tired and a little discouraged because it seemed to have dried up for me, so I was considering on leaving for the day. Then I decided and said to myself, no finish what you started in this area and then if I don't get anything I'll end the day right there. Well the area was running short and nothing so far, then all of a sudden, bam, I got a strong loud signal on Silver Dollar, my first in three years. Well as you can imagine I was excited and I couldn't seem to work fast enough to get it out of there and take a look. Well I dug about a 4 inch plug and layed it over and what was laying there staring me in the face, this wonderfull looking silver dollar and an old one to it appeared. I picked it up and size and weight seemed right, color was silver, it just looked awesome. Well I think my excitement was a little mis-judging, as I pulled it up and moved away some dirt I noticed what I thought was some how this thing has cerosion and ate through parts of the coin, well I new that couldn't be right, so I kept cleaning and it looks as if it was made this way. Kind of looks like some coins you see people cut out parts of it, then uses it as a necklace or something, but it wasn't cut, it was made this way. As you can imagine I was some what disappointed it wasn't my silver dollar, but it was still an awesome find, atleast I think so. I don't have a clue what it is, but looking at the back you can see it appears like it could be a medal of some sort made of some type metal and was silver plated or something used for a buckle of some type. You can see where there was a thing in the center on the back, like where it attached to something or pinned through something, but again I don't know. I hope someone here can tell me what it is, what it was used on and a year time period. I'm in hopes it's still something old, since this is the same spot I've found horse or cattle tack ranging in the mid to late 1800's, but you all will probably know. Either way, I think it is pretty neat find, something you don't run across often. Thanks for looking and the help on I.D. Ken.
