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Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 7:51:19 PM    privvydigger Posts: 2597 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline Diggin an old privvy I was using the metal detector and narrowed a beep down to three rocks, then two and finally this one rock kept beeping.  A friend of mine stopped by with his detector which put ours to shame.  He found a silver dime and I reached into my pocket and said see what this is....It came up as silver At home that night....I put it in a vice and started tapping at it and low and behold this is what was under the stone.  .04 oz Silver nugget enjoy privvydigger Attachment (1) _____________________________ thx privvydigger gtr'dug Collector of all Coaldale & Lansford, And love digging Summit Hill, Mauch Chunk & Tamaqua, Pa. sodas, beers, milks..... Post #: 1

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 7:55:41 PM    epgorge   Posts: 2526 Joined: 12/29/2006 From: USA Status: offline . < Message edited by epgorge -- 6/15/2007 12:02:06 PM > (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 2

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 8:09:15 PM    privvydigger Posts: 2597 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline I'm guessing....but could it have been used as money in those days. _____________________________ thx privvydigger gtr'dug Collector of all Coaldale & Lansford, And love digging Summit Hill, Mauch Chunk & Tamaqua, Pa. sodas, beers, milks..... (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 3

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 8:36:34 PM    epgorge   Posts: 2526 Joined: 12/29/2006 From: USA Status: offline / < Message edited by epgorge -- 6/15/2007 8:11:53 AM > (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 4

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 9:19:45 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline LOL I'm not touching this one with a 15 foot pole! Although the urge to start a rant is almost overwhelming. Somebody stop me! LOL Lobey. (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 5

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 9:44:57 PM    Brains   Posts: 801 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: offline [time for a dumb off topic joke regarding your post] i'll loan you our insulator grabber pole, it's near 30 feet give or take a few, should be long enough but it would be just plain obnoxious to poke the silver thing with it from 30 feet away _____________________________ Why are the seeds on the outside of a strawberry... (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 6

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 10:22:28 PM    privvydigger Posts: 2597 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline I'm a little slow on the uptake....didn't get it...or was that an inside joke... privvydigger _____________________________ thx privvydigger gtr'dug Collector of all Coaldale & Lansford, And love digging Summit Hill, Mauch Chunk & Tamaqua, Pa. sodas, beers, milks..... (in reply to Brains) Post #: 7

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/2/2007 10:56:00 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline I was refering to it being used for monetary purposes. Highly unlikely. It might be silver slag or a natural silver find. You might be sitting on the next big silver mine in the US. Lobey. (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 8

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 5:49:29 AM    epgorge   Posts: 2526 Joined: 12/29/2006 From: USA Status: offline . < Message edited by epgorge -- 6/3/2007 6:53:19 AM > (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 9

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 6:07:36 AM    epgorge   Posts: 2526 Joined: 12/29/2006 From: USA Status: offline . < Message edited by epgorge -- 6/15/2007 8:12:35 AM > (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 10

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 9:40:21 AM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Who said those folks up in maple syrup country dont have a sense of humor! Well I'm here to tell ya their wrong, wrong it is I say! As wrong as proposing to your sister it is! I honestly burst out laughing, I did. (Am i getting that Vermont twang down?)     I'm sorry if I mis-understood. I was under the assumption that the man was digging a  c.1880+ crapper and not a Colonial pre Revolutionary slop house. I stand corrected Joel and I'm humbled.     Still looks like a piece of slag or maybe a horse filling to me though. Peace man peace, Lobey. (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 11

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 9:46:01 AM    privvydigger Posts: 2597 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline I dug it in Pa.  50 yrds from an 1870s train station. _____________________________ thx privvydigger gtr'dug Collector of all Coaldale & Lansford, And love digging Summit Hill, Mauch Chunk & Tamaqua, Pa. sodas, beers, milks..... (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 12

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 10:09:41 AM    epgorge   Posts: 2526 Joined: 12/29/2006 From: USA Status: offline . < Message edited by epgorge -- 6/15/2007 8:13:00 AM > (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 13

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 10:57:38 AM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline quote: ad argumentum Brother Joel I truly meant no disrespect to you or the fine State of Vemont. I've been there many times and compared to this half city I reside in, it's truly a paridise. In fact I own a place in Maine I hope to retire to one day. So we'll be neighbors bud!! You and me, me and you argumentum ad ignorantiam(ing) till we die. Again you humble and shame me, Rick. < Message edited by lobeycat -- 6/3/2007 10:58:40 AM > (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 14

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 11:16:20 AM    epgorge   Posts: 2526 Joined: 12/29/2006 From: USA Status: offline . < Message edited by epgorge -- 6/15/2007 8:13:53 AM > (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 15

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 11:16:43 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11906 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline I have a insulator pole to its also called a chainsaw! _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to Brains) Post #: 16

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 12:16:46 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11906 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline You guys are starting to sound like stamp collectors pip pip and all that rot. hahaha _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 17

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 12:49:08 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline quote: steer clear of me. Joel So this probably severly limits my chances of getting an invite to dinner then? Not very neighborly Joel. (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 18

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 12:51:23 PM    Brains   Posts: 801 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: offline well we do have some stamp collectors in our family, but not me. A wile ago our neighbor found a chunk of metal along the railroad tracks that looked just like yours, might have some relation to railroads. _____________________________ Why are the seeds on the outside of a strawberry... (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 19

RE: Silver nugget in a Privy - 6/3/2007 12:57:21 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline PS Man I can't imagine what was in the post you edited Joel! Second thought maybe i can. Lobes. (in reply to Brains) Post #: 20

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