The DFXonly Hunt in Owasippe, Michigan

Nate and I both broke almost all our clad records. Nate found 449 coins for a total of $36.36! Plus we both got some nice silver coins. For more pictures and the story click here

1863 Civil War Token & a silver Half

Old Schoolhouse site:
Fridays I usually take off work a little early and get in an hour or two of detecting. Well today was so nice (sunny and 60’s) that I had to take off extra early. So where to go… During lunch I was browsing through a just bought history book when I came across an older map of an area I am very familiar with. I was surprised I hadn’t seen this map yet and I was even more surprised when I saw an old school (1874) on the map. I checked windows live local for an overhead view and determined the school would have been just about under the power lines. Usually when you hunt around power lines the detector gets too much interference and it’s useless. Not so with this site. However, conditions were challenging with all the prickers, saplings and bushes.


After about a half hour I get a nice signal. Dig it up and I thought it was an IH. I suspected that it was going to be older since it had a hole in it. When I brought it home and showed Nate he immediately said “That’s a Civil War Token!”. Sure enough 1863:



I found some other stuff but the pickens were slim. I think the lead ball is a musketball. The key handle looks cool and seems old.


I did find a large well that had been filled in.


Nate came back with me for about an hour and found a neat decorative piece with 1876 printed on it. Might be from some suspenders?



The Civil War Token is pretty beat up. I was able to identify it as coming from a merchant in Cincinnati, OH. "Dealer of Rags and Metals". Very cool.




Well after an hour of fighting torns and bushes we decided it was time to relax and do the grassy park thing.

Cleveland Park:We hadn’t been to this park since last fall. The graffiti painters had added to their artwork:


I found a couple mercs and was going to call it a day as I was working my way over to Nate.


I got a decent sounding signal. Dug and pulled out a war nickel from the hole. Strange I thought, that didn’t sound like a nickel. I rescanned the hole and there was more – out popped a silver Quarter and two wheat pennies. Waved the probe in the hole and determined that was it. That is until I stood up and got another good signal about 5 inches from the original hole. Dug and found a Walking Liberty Half Dollar. Very Sweet. It’s in nice shape too. Nice drop of 82 cents that was dropped in 1957 (my guess but had to be later than 55).



Some nice finds for a couple short hunts:

13 more Silver from the Berg

Saturday Nate and I spent about 4 hours at the Berg. It had rained good a couple days ago which made the ground almost perfect for detecting. We were digging up some really deep coins and you had to go slow to pick some of them up.
It took a bit getting going but Nate found the first silver coin of the day with a SLQ. He was very happy. A little while later I had a silver rosie. After that the silver coins were popping up regularly every 20 minutes or so. Ended up with a good take:





I also found a cool token and a key to a ford Mustang.






Nate made some nice finds:



Near the end of our detecting time Nate came over to me asking if he could borrow the skinny digger I was using because there was a “good sounding target” underneath a big root. He came back 10 minutes later with the barber dime.




Of all the finds my favorite for the day was the Save-4-Store token. The silver is nice but after the 3rd silver rosie you really want older stuff. I tried to look up some info on the token but didn’t find anything immediately so I’ll have to search some more.