SHE SAID YES! Metal Detecting The Dream House. Found LOADS of Abandoned Treasure!

welcome to the video everyone now has I've been doing once in a while in my videos what you're about to see has already taken place so I'm just doing a little bit of an intro and I door knocked this place it is a very large expensive home in a historic district and I was a little bit nervous naki but the you know the grounds are not pristine so I just decided to use a conversation starter this is a place I've seen in the past and I just really wanted to hunt it and I'll show you why check out the size of this tree so we're finishing the intro in my office because as I was filming that intro the homeowner came down to talk to me and I never ended up resuming the filming before it got dark so anyhow what happened is I knocked on her door and said you know my name was John and I'm a history buff and a few other things and I said you know I'd saw the tree in her backyard and how big it was and that I assumed that it was at the very minimum at least 150 years old and I said if it asks if it would be okay with her to check out around the tree with my metal detector and you know kind of around down the road in the back of her yard it's sort of a good way to ask someone a question for permission because maybe they're not thinking like oh you know they want to detect my front yard or they're gonna be around my house so I just used that old amazing tree as a conversation starter and from there ended up talking to her for probably a good 20 minutes before I started detecting and I found out that prior to that house being built in 1906 I actually thought the house was a little bit older but it wasn't a problem because she told me that when that house was built there was actually built on top of where an old 1800 schoolhouse used to be in that town which I had absolutely no knowledge of so it was a really exciting hunt I was happy to get in there and what you're about to see is awesome I made a lot of cool finds so hope you enjoy the video begins right now okay guys first signal was a faint nickel signal about three inches down was this strange piece not actually sure what it's made out of but anyway I'm really excited here I got a solid 81 signal and look in the hole it looks like a copper disc I don't know what it is but that's about the size of a half cent could it be an old copper coin not sure it's got a pretty thick rim on it could be more of like some type of token or something Wow don't want to rub it too much just try to get the loose dirt off let me take a look at it here a second and I will get back to you I don't know on this well I'm gonna have to wait and do a little bit of tooth picking on that one I don't think I want to put it under water it looks like some sort of copper alloy probably bronze but you can see that green edge this could potentially be an old copper coin it could also be a token it's kind of hard to tell but even if it is a token it's probably gonna be an old historic one I can't wait to get this cleaned up so let's put it in the pouch and keep searching alright guys I really don't know what to say right now this is that whole word just pulled that out [Music] there's something else in there that I don't even know what to say so maybe this other target will give us more of an idea of what that coin or token is yeah it's like right down underneath where the other one came off oh my goodness well here it goes - there's no way I know exactly what that is okay so this isn't gonna be as old as I thought but this is a it's a British threatening bit as they call them or as you would say three pence bit it's a three pence coin from Great Britain you can see that how thick it is the crazy thing is this is like on my bucket list of something I thought I was gonna have to go to Europe to dig and that is King George the I believe I think that's King George the fifth on there or that no that's the King George the six they think that is crazy so I mean that other one I found looking at the size now it could be a British ship Halfpenny if they're both from uh from Europe so it could be it could be anything but crazy I don't think there's anything else in there but I will check it again I believe this is going to be I don't know 1940s or 50s somewhere around in there but that is awesome that is definitely a three pence sweet those things are so thick it's about the thickness if probably maybe two two and a half pennies stack together crazy awesome let's keep huntin so it's in pretty toasty condition but there is a look at the three pence cleaned up you can see this side here I barely picked away out of it enough that you can see that the date is 1940 now it appears that the side of the coin that was facing up is the side that is extremely crusty this could be from you know various acidity seeping through from the surface who knows what sort of substance what sort of reactions over the years but I have dug coins in the past where wherever side was facing up actually had concrete on them so it's quite interesting to see that one side looks pretty normal for a dug coin but yet one side is fully corroded so indeed this coin did turn out to be a British ship Halfpenny and like that three pence the one side of the coin is completely corroded and crusted over but thankfully on this one the side that is more desirable with the ship is a lot more clear now I will workout it a bit more with the toothpick but it is a 1937 half penny now these two coins are coins that could have definitely been brought home by a World War two veteran as these coins would have definitely been circulating as pocket change during that period so around the base of all these old trees you can see there's a lot of like a sort of like a gravel and some areas mounted up but anyhow there's a lot of old glass and I've been keeping an eye on for our old stuff and we got a cool little bottle here might because looks like that could be porcelain tortoise mason jar let's go check this little guy out right here it almost looks like it could be a small inkwell or something and it's complete out what an awesome surface find that is one of my probably my best surface coins ever that's nonmetallic could be for some old rubber cream it's it's got like kind of a screw lid so it's not gonna be an inkwell from what I can tell not sure but that's really cool somebody that's an expert in bottles and stuff like this please comment let me know I'd love to know exactly what this is that's a sweet little find right there though so this turned out to be an awesome little glass jar right here you can see on the back it says Noxzema or no eczema and it's completely intact it's gonna turn into a display piece but anyhow I have an article up here and it says Noxzema was invented in 1914 by Francis Townsend in Ocean City Maryland the formula was referred to commonly as no examine dr. Townsend prescribed it as a remedy a remedy to early resort vacationers burned by the Sun demand for the product grew as the years progressed in the product achieves national popularity by the 1940s through the use of radio and print advertising noxeema contains camphor menthol phenol and eucalyptus among other ingredients it was popular among women as a facial cleanser and makeup remover in addition to sunburn treatment so there you go okay so I just found this about two inches down blew my ears out I'm not exactly sure what it is I wonder if that could be like the piece off of an old doorknob but I'm not sure interesting relic anyway though plenty of stuff back here I think we're gonna pull out some really cool things only been here about ten minutes well I've got a signal in the 70s about three inches down and I found another target similar to that one I showed it's definitely led so I'm sure the other one is too but this one's bigger than the last one so I'm not exactly sure what the deal is with these I don't think they're weights but uh who knows old blocks a lid pretty interesting all right we've got another interesting find here now I will say off the bat I'm not certain if this is a musket ball it's not oxidized I don't know if the strange soil could be part of that or if it's just not that old but I am in an area where there was a pretty heated Civil War battle so Civil War relics are definitely a possibility in this huge back lot here you can see that it's definitely led no doubt about that super heavy kind of looks like a musket ball but normally they have a really white color from being oxidized being in the ground 150 years this one doesn't look like that so I'm not certain I'd really don't know what else it would be but what looks to be a musket ball anyway pretty sweet I'm not sure where the other clip went but I did find two of these musket balls on the property and you can see as that crust flakes off they are very oxidized underneath so yes they are Civil War period musket balls from the battle that took place in the area that I was metal detecting so it's very happy to find these in that big back lawn but anywho they're gonna go in our new display case the no damage are there you go we'll have to add to it I've been keeping my eyes peeled and finding little bits of pottery and this here I just dug up now I would have said it's a random piece of melted lettle if it wasn't for that abnormally intentional point hit the tip of it so I'm not sure what that is pretty weird could have been some type of old let's seal it is pretty heavy I'm not certain now a lot of strange targets back here but it's old stuff I can tell you that all right I got another strange target here another piece of lead and I have no idea what this is I would say it's some type of lever or something like that but it doesn't look anywhere like would have broken off except maybe right there on that side of it unless it came off of something here apart from that it looks like a solid piece so maybe it did break off there and it was some sort of handle I'm not sure about another solid chunk of lead old lead is always a great sign when your metal detecting means there's goodies nearby so I've been working on picking up some pottery and I found a broken piece of a really old Pepsi bottle and there's not a lot of high tones here but check this signal now I'm not sure if this is just going to be a jump target but very high conductive coming right around 90 it's not like a super huge target so I figured we'd try this one live you oh there it is what is that what in the world we might have another mystery item huh that's crazy see all think that is to give me a heart attack when I saw that was round thought it was some kind of crazy big old token huh we're gonna have a lot to clean up later that's for sure okay I'm working this young tree row right here there tree line I should say there's a couple of these in the property but anyhow I got my first u.s. coin in about 40 minutes in it is just a memorial cent but it is the high relief so it's gonna be 1959 to 1968 right by the way back on the back end of the property here in behind the house so I'll keep looking around here there's stuff all over the place I'm still digging up them little lead rectangles all scattered all over the place all right you see I have a pretty big hole opened here but I'm glad it's a neat find it was a really deep signal didn't want to come in really well I thought it may just be deep iron but kind of sounded like a silver coin too it's still working that tree line in the back of the property about 10 inches down look at it right there it's led it looks like a big old hem wait that's exactly what it is that's a big one now for those of you who don't know hem weights were used these were sewn on to women's dresses like skirts so they wouldn't blow up in the wind so there you go nice little big hem weight very happy to have that been a long time since I found one of these but yep that was pretty close to a foot deep probably a good 9 to 10 inches and I led sinks deeper so the old lead target sometimes are way down there I got a really nice non-ferrous target that was ringing up in like the copper range but it was bigger so I figured it was just gonna be a piece of trash but a man this is a really cool find hopefully I didn't get it too bad I did ding it with the shovel a tiny bit but it looks to be a huge old watch fob you can see the slot on the top this is definitely an old fob man the dirt is very adhered to these items so you can't really see much of anything when I get them out of the hole but man that's that's probably one of the larger ones I've ever dug and I'm not sure what's on it but I hope it's in good shape that was gonna be a very historic find right there hopefully it's one of the older ones but sweet we'll get it in the pouch and we'll keep hunting that was only about an inch an inch and a half down this turned out to be in awesome fog and I'm going to let you guys do the research on this one you can see up at the very top it says established 1884 there's so much detail on this thing and on the back of it it says direct-to-consumer quick-service H Clark & Sons something Richmond Virginia and then this is something like the South's greatest something all righty we may be on to something good here I want to show you this target first is a really big signal right here not only is it big but it's deep when it reached four inches but it's a huge target that's probably more like a foot deep so maybe I'll get the foot shuffle out of the car and dig that one that's gonna be a deep though because it's not tripping much much at all like iron does normally a little bit but that's not why I turn the camera on right where my foot is it's the first signal I've had in a while here that's a coin ish coin like it's a small target it's ringing in 85 84 85 on the button and it's very small very concise signal this sounds like an old penny or hopefully an old one silver dime okay we're gonna do it live I don't think the pinpointer is gonna read it now we're gonna have to dig for this one it's probably right at about three inches give or take [Applause] you could read it now at the pinpointer there it is it's a coin that is a 1966 penny so the only two coins we found wave in the back here by the road and behind the house are from the 60s that's better than stuff from the 90s or 2000s that's for sure but with all them relics mixed in I'm liking it well I've got a crazy nonmetallic find while I'm digging a probably trashed target this is really cool though the amount of bold stuff in the ground here is just amazing as I'm digging down for my target I just found what looks to be half of a porcelain doorknob that is crazy pretty certain that's what that is that is really cool I don't think I've ever found one of these before one of the porcelain ones but anyhow let's see the pinpointer will read the target maybe we'll finish it live yeah we're right downtown at almost touching it some may as well oh there's the other half that's unless the other unless the signal I have is to piece out of the back of it I don't think I could have broke that there's no way I didn't even feel hit anything when I was digging her at least anything I could feel that was cool that the whole thing's in there so maybe it's that center part that's ringing up we're gonna find out in a second yeah I think so I think it went right in there and the back of it just like that huh well that's a pretty cool relic porcelain doorknob I like it I'll have to glue that back together but it's probably been broken for it's been broken for a really long time you see how the dirts really adhered to the side of it if I just broke that that would be clean that edge so I didn't do that it's a bummer that it's broke but uh that's a really cool fine if that metal piece brass wasn't attached to the back we would have never found it okay very shallow here we got a really loud brass is sounding signal because it's ringing and super solid but the numbers are not high like silver so normally these are like brass targets there's kind of something like that but man here it could be an old good relic pretty close to the surface and a really really really strong signal so I figured we'd do this one what is that what in the world well that's definitely brass huh man it's got a really distinct edge around it like it's gonna have some design edge recent wording to possibly I don't know man this place is stumping me there's some really old and interesting stuff in this place we will get cleaned up later okay I had a solid signal near the surface rang in like in the 70s thought it might just be a trashy item but it's another hem wait these must be from the old schoolhouse that used to sit here maybe the girls were wearing them and that's why there's multiples of these that one the a little line that goes across there I don't know what to call it right now it's been up but I thought I'd heard like a copper pan here signal right above it - there might be two targets let me just try it live see if there is or if it just hit weird cuz it was shallow now that was all one signal it just sounded different when I changed directions because it's a large lead target and close to the surface kind of read over a wide area but uh another sweet relic I'm taking a break here here's most of the good stuff so far I just bought this container recently actually bought it a little while ago haven't used it much yet I forgot to put like cotton balls and stuff in my car to pack in any of the better stuff but yeah we're doing pretty good I just keep picking up all the pottery and the thick older glass that I see him obviously not picking up the glass that looks modern but man we got all kind of relics in here I can't wait to get this all cleaned up but looking pretty good and of course a lot of trash to go with this okay so I've locked on to an amazing signal here that is at least quarter sized it could be bigger it could be half dollar size there around there the thing is the numbers aren't ringing up super high like it would be a silver half-dollar it's not right on the surface which is good and it's ringing it very tight coming in 88 89 so I don't know one of the best targets have been pad all day [Music] so we're going to go ahead and do this one live I'm going to cut a pretty large plug just in case it's something good oh [Music] [Music] man it's just a thick chunky round piece of lead boys that a bummer that ring up so sweet oh well I can't wait a mall okay I think we're onto something pretty good right now I'm working the opposite side of this tree line over here by the back alley where they put all their brush and I figured there'd be a lot of old trash from the street back in here so I was hugging the tree line this is on the other side of where I found the FOB the hem weight in the 60s pennies I had a feeling there was going to be some old stuff back here and if you look in the hole here it looks like I got something silver down there I'm going to show you the edge of it that's definitely silver looks like a dime see if we can figure out what it is that is a Mercury dime sweet so I'm gonna work this section out here good I don't think the ground was shifted as much on this bottom end of the property so we're hitting the coins down here looks like it's in pretty good shape too excited about that one and there she is the gorgeous 1943 90 percent silver Mercury dime always love to find these a little bit of dirt left on there I may be able to get off but a quite a bit of detail left on there probably in the low end very fine range definitely a beautiful coin and very happy to have it okay this is pretty crazy I had a shallow signal that I thought was just gonna be a modern coin it was literally sitting down right on top of this route I don't know if this was a modern dropper a recent drop I should say or what earth it was just preserved from sitting in the ground at a weird angle on that route but it's a 1958 d wheat penny and my goodness it doesn't look like it's been buried very long looks like it still has a lot of the original surface on it it's pretty crazy just right under the grass sitting right on top of that big old root that is crazy don't got too much cleaner than that one okay it's only been about a minute there's a lot of old stuff by the road back here and a really solid signal right down there knew it wasn't going to be a coin but it's half of an old makeup compact and that may have a design on it I'm not sure looks like there's something there from looking at the back end of it I'll check the hole see if the other half is in there but probably not [Music] six very important reasons we believe we are the largest manufacturers of cosmetics and metal novelties at prices that will be agreeably surprising we control the entire output of several large metal container plants we manufacture all our products we do all our finishing and buffing we do all our own plating and coloring we manufacture our own vanity puffs and if that's not enough we do our own art work taking all these factors into consideration we are in a position to quote you prices which are astonishing each and every department is managed by men who have spent many years specializing in this field of manufacture we will supply compacts boxes puffs or the complete package samples sent by request the Reich ash corporation the largest manufacturers of cosmetics and novelty 5960 one reach Street New York alrighty we get another coin in the hole and this one is looks like just yeah another memorial it is high relief though so the question is do we stay and keep popping these coins that are semi old here do we go back and look for the relics and it is the question so every time I think I'm gonna have a can or something like that this place just keeps putting out the relics I mean all the trash targets or I should say the trash signals I'm used to hearing there's like all relics it's like relic mania back here but we got some sort of other another compact of sorts oh my camera battery's just about to die I got to change that what does that say on there Co t and or something I don't know I might not even have that the right way yeah it has to be that way well clean that off later but man I'm gonna check the hole maybe there was something buried down in there another relic for the pouch stand by I know there's more coming right now working the trashed corner and uh there's a lot of junk back in here how does signal here was interesting three inches down it's kind of funny it's an old zinc penny spill and there's not much of them left after I pulled this one out of the hole that one rang up like a nickel it's only like maybe 65 percent of it but yep those were down in the same hole alright it's been quite a while since I've had the camera on the signals are slowing down but I got another lead wait now before anyone starts yelling at me it's possible that these could be window weights tell me how to tell the difference because I know they use the same design you know first skirts and stuff so but I'm pretty sure those were maybe the smaller kind these ones are quite large so I'm actually starting to think now those might be window weights so somebody chime in and let me know for certain but I got another one huh so yes I found four of these and they all have that same mark on the top which looks like it is a four now when I said window weights what I mean is they would be hung on the bottom of drapes and to keep them from blowing around so the same concept as with the skirts now I believe the ones that were sewn under the bottom of women's skirts were a little bit smaller and I found the smaller ones before they're about half this size but same exact design also made of lead and there was also ones that were square in shape once again small ones and once large like this size so they were used for various purposes but that's what they are there let ways so correct me if I'm wrong this may be piece off of an old lantern and that was down there a good six inches pretty sure that's what that is but I'm not certain it's old anyway well if there's a way to annoy my subscribers I'll find it not only is it windy today but the guy that owns the property next door is power washing but anyway I just got a really interesting target here I have no idea one of this now this like octagonal piece just broke off right there it broke off of somewhere up here it was actually right on this hook right there the tip of my thumb is so I have no idea what this is that's really weird we will investigate litora well I cleaned it up a bit this is crazy this is one of the oldest dog taxer licenses that I've ever found it says Montgomery County MD Maryland I ain't anywhere near Maryland so that's pretty interesting number 17 23 down at the bottom it says dog tax I think 19 20 something that might be a three but I don't think so this is a really old style so I think this is an old dog tax from the 1920s that might be the oldest one I've ever found that's pretty cool and I saved the other piece I'll clean off see if there's anything on later that's really sweet I just got an unexpected fine here just because of where it's at I'm in the side yard where you can tell that they did a lot of work at some point and it's all filled dirt in here you can see all these rocks right on top no this is definitely filled in or at least maybe something was tore out of this patch but there was a coin signal down in there I'm like well it's probably trash but I'm down and all that uh pushed around material got a little wheat penny it's nice to see another old coin can't see the date on it but another oldie and I actually just dug a modern quarter a second ago kind of doing the side yard now so we may start to hit more coins I was kind of more so relic hunting earlier but uh looks like we may get some other old coins over on this side there's a lot of shallow low tones here and I got my first nickel the day I thought it was just gonna be trash here it's in really really bad shape really corroded but I think it's only nineteen eighty four it's pretty crazy but uh yep still nickel stuff is really slowing down now and I'm getting tired I'll give it probably another 15 minutes and that's gonna do it already so I got an awesome signal right at the on the side of the root of this pine tree and [Laughter] might be under the route coming right in that copper penny range though here it could be anything you know hitting the route on that side so we're gonna have to take it from here do a little moon shaped plug you know see if it's up along the side of it where I popped that I think that signal maybe underneath that route but we're gonna find out in a second now it seems like it's right off to the side so we will be able to retrieve it and I know the sun's coming through here to where dangled right now all right almost there [Music] it could have been worse that's for sure we got it in the file it is a coin when we turn out of the Sun in the wind it's an old wheat penny sweet so the neighbor's house is extremely old - you can't see much of it from here but it's right up there he's there power washing this fence right now and I'll have to ask I'm pretty sure the property ends right on this side of the fence but they may have this backlog because they have this fenced weird so I have to ask her if she owns this over here and I'll check it out but uh anyway well I guess I forgot to turn my pin pointer off but uh we didn't end up finding too many signals over by the big old tree right over there but there's been a lot of ground shifted around here over the year so who knows what happened actually found most of my stuff between that tree and out by the road kind of all the relics and through there and most of the old coins were close to the road so who knows mostly filtered on the side but uh interesting spot for sure no I didn't easy place to hunt and there's no way I can find everything in one go but I think I got at least a good majority of the goodies out of here I was debating whether or not to go for this one I knew it was a deep larger target I went down almost a foot yeah it's another doorknob that's an old one and I know I scratched the heck of it a heck out of the trying to get it out that was really wedged down in there you can see where I sliced it a bunch of times on that side that is an old one now we'll have to clean it up later but actually that was only about a yard away from the wheat penny crazy okay I'm still working under the pine trees and it's not working out real good because these decomposing pine needles and loose soft powdery dirt is flying up in my face with the wind but anyway down in the roots here I walked onto a signal I was able to isolate and it's another coin that's another wheat penny sweet because there's no fill around the trees here because the other wheat he was writing around the other side there so we'll put it in the pouch and we'll keep going okay guys I am not exaggerating when I say I spent the last 10 to 15 minutes on this target it was too good to pass up when I got it to lock in I thought I was on maybe to a deep old silver quarter there are roots going every which direction here I'm out by the road again and after 10 to 15 minutes of working down in the roots cut in the small ones and just working down in there's my target it's an old brass ring I'm assuming this is some sort of horse tack it's definitely brass and it's definitely old because it's down under all of these roots literally right down under this one about 7 to 8 inches I thought I was onto an old silver quarter maybe look maybe like a Barbara or something but it will take that another nice relic for the pouch so I'm really taking my time under this pine tree row here and I locked on to another signal so there's still stuff hiding down here that's especially close to these tree trunks you got to go real slow because the ground tends to get hard and dry and you have the roots to go through to with the detector so I'm working it real slow around the pine trees and you can see right there when I pop the plug right there actually I don't know that might be the memorial imprint there you see it kind of rectangular back there but even if it is this hope hits at least from the 60s but I'm hoping this is a wheat penny Oh looks like the mower got it I think it is a wheat penny does that say 1944 on it yeah that's a wheat penny yeah you can see it clearly there now 1944 that one got clipped you'd all righty let's keep popping these coins and relics this is a challenging place to detect I can tell you that so let me just throw out one of my theories I don't know how right I am because it seems like there are a concentration or I should say is a concentration of decent non-ferrous targets up by the basis of even these young trees but yet the places where there are no trees like say out in the middle of the here between the tree row right here and the other tree row out there there's like not good signals in between I almost think like whenever they push this dirt around these trees were already planted and then maybe they move see it's hell it's lumpy through here and they like pushed it all around in through the trees that way the basis of some of them did not see disturbed soil that's just a theory I'm not sure how correct it is but the giant tree definitely has like a fill or something some kind of material push to fall around it as well as some of the other older trees and I'm not able to find anything old underneath the big trees but yet I'm finding wheat pennies and stuff around like these pine trees here at the bottom so I'm not certain but in between these roots here I just got another penny signal and worked at it for about two minutes trying to get it out between all them fine roots and I don't know if this is a wheat or a memorial but normally if it's a memorial when you rub it you'll see it on the back the wheats tend to be more crusty so I'm pretty certain that's another wheat penny okay so we got another one of those weights that's the fourth one now I have one more theory mulling around my head why there's not many signals in like the open areas and it could be just because of what I used to do back when I was a newbie detectorists and that was metal detect the easy to hit spots where there wasn't roots and it was easy to lock in the signals it wasn't until a while after I started metal detecting that I realized that under hard packed ground under like where trees are the ground tends to be hard or packed because they the trees suck up the moisture you have all the roots and especially around old trees it's normally hard packed because it's an attraction where a lot of people stand underneath and especially if there's a lot of iron and trash in the ground then it makes it even harder to pick up deep signal so when your metal detecting around old trees usually you have to swing incredibly slow do multiple different patterns and directions over the tree or metal detecting around and then you'll start to unlock the deep old stuff and if there is good stuff under the tree you want to clear out every little piece of trash because between the hard ground the roots and you know like the iron and trash targets if you just walk by at 20 miles an hour with your metal detector around the tree you won't find anything and that doesn't mean there's anything under there I learned that over the years of detecting of course the hard way you don't realize all this stuff you missed until you start to get better at what you do so that's just another theory this place could have been detected by someone else and they got the majority of the easy targets out I do know that the lady that lives here has only owned the property for like a year so this place could have been metal detected in the past I would guarantee that with the history in the area that somebody would have Dornoch to this place at some point in the past I had knocked on a place that was down the road a little bit it was a huge mansion and I just went for it but the lawn wasn't like pristine and the guy told me he's been asked by somebody before and had look around so you never know but uh hey it's a trying to figure out the stories about a place that kind of is is it's half the fun to just you know thinking about everything how people lost the things you know why it is where it is it's just a lot of fun I already tried but there's no way we're getting to this one since these are younger trees I mean they just grow over top and reclaim old stuff but I want to show you this there's no way we're getting to this one pretty large signal in the mid 70s I mean it could just be an old piece of trash but it could also be a relic it's definitely not a coin for sure but I mean it's smack dab right down underneath this massive root I put the shovel in this way to see how it is there's other roots going off to the side there's no way I can dig down through here and this kind of bows out on this side so it's no way I'm getting in that one today but it just goes to show you these young trees they reclaim the relics okay I am one more time working the tree line out by the front except I've changed directions I've done like circles all around those young pine trees there and pulled out them couple wheat pennies and I'm here this didn't sound like one of the shallow junk low tones and I dug it because it had depth on it and they don't know this looks like it's some sort of button considering the area men that would be awesome if this is a civil war button it kind of looks different than the general service buttons so I'll have to clean it up later but yeah it was it was down there good four inches we'll see I'm gonna wait and clean this one up properly at home I just rubbed a little bit of spit on it to see anything coming through that is definitely an old one I don't know if it's Civil War related but this is for certain and 1801 hopefully even colonial I'm not sure though the shank is on there you can see it's just plastered to the back folded over that is definitely an oldie so I'm looking forward to getting this cleaned up this is potentially the oldest find of the day right here okay so let me explain this button to you and it's actually quite rare I was surprised when I looked into it so cadet VMI VMI standing for Virginia Military Institute now the VMI is or at least was located in Lexington Virginia and I found this within a couple hours of Lexington Virginia now the VMI was burned down in 1864 during the Civil War by Union forces the interesting thing is I have been trying to figure out to the best of my ability which variety this is and is really hard to do because the back mark is extremely weak and almost non-existent but I've been comparing it to other buttons and I believe this one to be one of the general a genuine pre Civil War produced you know used during the Civil War buttons so it makes sense also because of where I found it there was a strong Confederate presence during the war so it's highly probable you saw the musket balls that I found and this is the same city that a few months ago I found a rare Kentucky militia Civil War button so there's a lot of really interesting and oddball civil war related relics coming out of this place stuff that I've never found before and had to research and what makes it more interesting is if this is indeed one of the Civil War period ones which I believe it to be and 100% certain but this is the Institute that Stonewall Jackson taught at so there is a probability that the person who wore this button was under the instruction of Stonewall Jackson himself so this is an amazing piece of history in one of the most interesting Civil War relics that I have found and I'm very happy to happen okay I still had a signal in the hole and like the exact same spot I went down about a half inch under where I got dug that old button and there was looks to be a 12-gauge shotgun head stamp underneath it looks like the old one I think it's the paper cartridge one but yeah let me see what that button rings up off the check in two minutes in my pouch but that's crazy the button probably is brass so it's probably that head stamp that made the signal come in lower that's probably actually what I was hitting more so because I thought I was digging a nickel signal pretty crazy let me show you guys here I just tossed that button back onto the ground move my pin pointer it's ringing up 72 so I definitely the original signal I found was actually that shotgun head stamp and I pinpointed and dug that button first and what are the odds of that weird so I'm right in the corner by the hedges literally wedged up in here and I got a 81 signal down about three inches and it's some sort of know if it's some sort of pendant or what it doesn't appear to be too terribly old pot metal with maybe almost like a chrome plating or something that's coming off or maybe it was an old silver plating I can't really tell right now yeah there it went it's getting dark out I'll clean it up later well I may as well do it while I have the camera rolling I did find something else deep there are people walking by I didn't film this was very deep here in the front yard she said go ahead and hunt the front so I found this old piece it was very deep it was in with a bunch of coal there's like some fill in here Early's just old materials but this was really deep this signal was kind of wedged in the corner on the edge here where the bushes were cut back so um I think somebody's metal detected this front yard before because I'm not finding many signals but uh it's definitely some some stuff left down there don't cut too much daylight left so uh I got anything good I'll let you know I am back in my car now it is getting very dark but anyhow there are not many targets in this front yard and everything's cut back really far right now and there really isn't any landscaping and stuff so I worked around the hedges and I worked in some old landscaping and uh I can't believe it or not a couple inches down and the landscaping I found a buffalo nickel I thought it was going to be a modern nickel I wasn't even expecting a coin I'll clean it up it's got a lot of detail on it so that one's probably from the 1930s it's probably a 35 36 or 37 but man I can tell just even under all that dirt it looks really sharp but apart from that I got a couple trash bits there's two targets I showed I got this pulled tab was also in the landscaping and I got this weird piece out by the road I'm not exactly sure what that is it's very light I thought like some sort of like arrow tip or something but I don't know that's really light kind of weird what an amazing hunt it turned out to be so without further ado we're going to start plugging away at this wrap up without going over everything I already showed in the video we got this porcelain doorknob a brass doorknob we got that really nice no Exuma container we got our pottery and glass bits there a couple odds and ends like levers and obviously I'm not showing any of the trash that I dug just the interesting stuff this piece didn't turn out to have anything on it not sure what that's off of I'm hoping someone can have an answer for me here there those are all those lead rectangular blocks that I found in the yard really have no idea what those are but they were scattered all over the place we got our to Civil War musket balls some horse tackle running around there we got the two British coins that weird shaped piece of lead just ended up being well a weird shaped piece of lead this that I thought was something kind of shaped like a shield just anything ended up being a chrome plated piece of something that busted off of something else but that shape is just like accidental I guess kind of really looked like something this I still have no idea what it is so I'm hoping somebody can comment if you have any information whatsoever on what this might be it looks fairly old but I have no idea what it is absolutely no idea we have that awesome vmi button and the dog tags turned out to be 1937 and the other one that was attached to it which I figured was going to be a rabies vaccination tag was just the following year's tag 1938 so they left the old one on when they put the new one on so I got to dog taxes for consecutive years that was pretty cool this year not exactly sure what it is but looking at it kind of looks almost like a like an old like um spark plug gap connector or something of the sort runs from zero to ten and says vernier at the bottom of the ER and ier so if you know what that is please comment that one thing I found toward the end was an arrow that's definitely an arrow tip and you can still see it's got some of the wood in the bottom there yet so I thought that was interesting so let's go to some coins the only modern coins I on that property was a 1980 what is that 85 quarter to Krusty zinc pennies three copper pennies from the 60s one from 1982 and 1984 nickel and that is it on the modern coins when the better better points the six wheat pennies ended up with where 1941 1942 to 1944 a 1945 and this one here which is that super clean 1958 d that was sitting on top of that root that was crazy like I said I have no idea if this was dropped more recently than not or if it was an old drop that was preserved from the strange conditions which i think is the case because it you know was wasn't a surface find it was underground but very weird maybe because it didn't come in contact with soil her much soil at all stay in good condition just sitting on top of that tree root pretty amazing anyway I showed the 1943 Mercury dime up close this I didn't show because it really surprised me and it was dark out I thought this was gonna be a mid 1930s buffalo nickel here with all that detail it's actually a 1920 probably a good extremely fine details it has the full horn under there obviously with the environmental damage it's not going to have much numismatic value but to pull one out of the ground like that that's amazing and in that condition you know without corrosion if it had a D mint mark can be worth about $250 not making that up really beautiful buffalo nickel there I didn't look at the 1920 Philly but without the environmental damage that might actually be a twenty dollar coin that's a beauty one of the best dug ones I found we've got the makeup compacts the one that's dear brand de er II have never found one of those before that's why I put that informational bit in the video and the other one I found is also the old you know cosmetic compact and this brand is still in business today I know I looked it up it's I don't know how to say it Cody Co T why not sure how to pronounce that kotti Cody who knows but that's only half of that as well apart from we got those uh lead weights and I think that was about oh except for this I forgot to throw this in there that awesome fob too so let's put that right in there so apart from a big pile of trash that I dug too that we're not going to show in this video had an absolutely amazing time what an assortment from that property and that lady was real nice and said she would invite me back sometime so hopefully that video will be coming sometime in the future thanks everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed the video take care and happy treasure honey we'll see you soon

Channel: Treasure Quest - JD & Company Chronicles

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Length: 58min 48sec (3528 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 22 2018