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RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/7/2007 11:11:15 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline cc6pack... Hey Dennis, here's one more of the musket balls... Wayne Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 21

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 8:28:16 AM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Nice! Hey, Wayne... How cum your pitchers are sooo big!?! My wrists get tired from having to shift the thing back & forth to see it all... ROR... Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 22

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 9:13:48 AM    cc6pack   Posts: 543 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline Wayne great job on the pics, I'd rather scroll back and forth and see detail  other than small or fuzzy pics . The coin was made onto a button, you see a lot of this in Civil War relics. You had to make do while at sea not a lot of Wally worlds around then. The large balls are .69 or .70 caliber, the  third from the end looks like a Colt pistol .40 or .44, the next to last looks like a .58, the last something around .30 cal. could be a pistol or part of a buck part of a buck and ball. Nice finds (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 23

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 10:41:36 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline 6pack... Thanks for the info Dennis... I was wondering why the holes looked to be drilled into the coin.. now I know! The area I'm working has a lot of lead... sinkers... scrap stuff... fishing stuff... lots of debris.    Hard digging through this kind of stuff, but it has paid off.  I found a lot of coins and trinkets... all by hand.  I don't think an underwater metal detector would work out in this spot just because there is soooo much junk!! I'll be going back to this spot in a week or so.  Looks like the visibility has improved enough where I can see something and I want to dive this spot again before I go under the knife. Thanks again for the info, Wayne < Message edited by southern Maine diver -- 1/8/2007 10:46:03 AM > (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 24

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 10:46:17 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline beerswede... Hey Ron... I don't know why they are coming out so big either...  If these were Cap's photos, I'd say it was because of his huge EGO... I just havn't been able to find the right adjustment to reduce it in size to keep it under the 200kb format for the forum posts.   I'll keep on looking and trying... Wayne (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 25

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 10:54:53 AM    GuntherHess Posts: 5175 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline wow, you found those items just digging and eyeballing them? thats amazing. I have trouble seeing the artifacts half the time when using a metal detector and I know where they are to within 6". _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 26

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 11:18:34 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Thanks Matt... The coins and trinkets are a bit heavier than the mud and sand on the bottom, so theses heavier objects tend to "roll" back into the hole you dig... kinda like panning for gold I guess... but in this method, your whole body is in the pan (hole) You can see that some of the stuff comes out pretty chewed up and unrecognizeable... is there any way to restore them to better condition?  Particularly the copper coins?  I found one piece, that has a Ram rearing on its' hind legs, in the center of what looks to be the size of a silver dollar.  Over the top it says ... GOAT CLUB and the bottom has 1930... sounds like something Warren would be a member of... or even President of   I'll try to get some better photos of it today.  I'm off from work so I can make a doctor's appointment, so I have some free time. Wayne Attachment (1) (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 27

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 11:35:34 AM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Wayne... Have you tried cropping for starters? Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 28

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 1:20:31 PM    capsoda Posts: 7932 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online EGO!!!! WHAT EGO!!!  I DON'T HAVE AN EGO PROBLEM!!! NO WAY I HAVE AN EGO PROBLEM!!! WAIT, DO I HAVE AN EGO PROBLEM!!!   SO I HAVE A LITTLE EGO THINGY, SO WHAT, WHO CARES, NOT ME, NO WAY, NOT ME!!!  _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 29

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 1:55:56 PM    cc6pack   Posts: 543 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline Wayne here's some coins I found in CW camps that have been altered spanish real and a seated dime. Attachment (1) (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 30

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 1:57:40 PM    cc6pack   Posts: 543 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline and some bullets and stuff Attachment (1) (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 31

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 7:22:59 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5175 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Looks like you dig a lot of Enfields? Any with marked bases? _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 32

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 9:26:11 PM    capsoda Posts: 7932 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Great finds Dennis. There is so much of that kind of stuff still to be found around where I live and you can't get people to give you permission to look. For some reason they all seem to think you are looking for buried treasure or gold. On public land if you get caught they will through the book at you. There was alot of activity around here during the Civil War and before, including several of General Jacksons camps, with 5 fort and all. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 33

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/8/2007 10:59:13 PM    cc6pack   Posts: 543 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline Gunther We found one spot that every enfield we dug was marked 57, and over the years a few L's and some that were numbered. Still have a few that the box wood plug is still in them. Also found a few Frankford arsenal and some swage U.S marked. Cap use to hunt Mobile and the surrounding areas for Artillery shells in the late 70's I did find a real coin on one of the hunts if I remember correctly around Bay Minnette. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 34

RE: Coins, musket balls and ??? - 1/9/2007 12:59:38 AM    capsoda Posts: 7932 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Yep, There was alot going on in Mobile and several scrumishes in Baldwin county. Found out that Blakley was a city and not just a battle field. Used to have a map of the defences of Mobile. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 35

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