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Jun 1, 2024, 9:51 AM
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Found in a Clemson/Pee Dee Extension test tobacco field 40 years ago this summer. Have lots of nice coins and arrowheads but these are special. What unique finds have you come across?
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sweet find!!***
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Jun 1, 2024, 10:27 AM
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Re: Interesting finds
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Jun 1, 2024, 10:59 AM
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That 1/2 dollar alone will probably buy a 12 pack of good beer today! 
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Jun 1, 2024, 11:08 AM
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With inflation a case.
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Re: Interesting finds
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Jun 1, 2024, 11:04 AM
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When Santee lakes were way down around 10' probably 15yrs ago, I was fishing, running around marking structure and unique stuff. I got out of my boat on a little hump to let my pup run around and I found like 8 arrowheads, a broken spearhead but found both halves, a hammer stone, several pcs of pottery ans a bunch of chert and quartz which isnt common to the area. Not sure if it was a burial site which is why it was a hump or if it was campsite but obviously it was used by indians long before lake flooded in the '40s.
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Finding a SLQ (Standing Liberty Quarter) with the date still as legible as that
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Jun 1, 2024, 11:23 AM
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one is pretty unusual. The dates on those are almost always rubbed off if they were in circulation for any amount of time, about like Buffalo Nickels. That SLQ is an old one, too, only the second year of mintage, they started in 1916.
A nice Native American "point" as well!
That is why I love metal detecting, it is like an Easter Egg hunt below ground. You never know WHAT you are going to find. Several years ago, I was just lollygagging around in my own yard, testing out my detector. In the boundary area between me and my neighbor to the right, I found, barely buried below the surface, a modern 9" aluminum frying pan. Completely intact, plastic handle and all. IF I had not been worried about all sorts of deadly biological cooties, it would have cleaned up like new. Why did someone throw it away, and how did it wind up there?
That same day, I gave my neighbors front yard across the street a cursory few passes. (With their permission, of course.) Turned up an old 6" cast iron sprocket, which they had no clue what it was. Having grown up on a farm, I knew it was a sprocket from an old set of seed planters. The whole area where our subdivision is used to be farm land 100 years ago.
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Re: Finding a SLQ (Standing Liberty Quarter) with the date still as legible as that
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Jun 1, 2024, 11:38 AM
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Exactly! Easter egg hunt. So many layers of civilization around us that most people don’t realize.
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Jun 1, 2024, 12:03 PM
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1917, that was the year that my daddy was born...
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Re: Interesting finds
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Jun 1, 2024, 12:08 PM
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I did find a 1899 “V” nickel on my grandfather’s farm which was the same year he was born.
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