Group outing over the weekend here in Oregon

[exploregon]

Good morning all!
AHRPS' weekend outing proved to be fairly successful for both Aundrea (my wife) and myself as well as many others. I'm not quite sure what all 19 or 20 people found but I know there was some very nice things to come out of our weekend getaway, most notably James' Montana hotel key tag which from what I saw would be the nicest find among all the neat digs over the weekend. I know there were a few tokens outside of ours, a Barber quarter, a 1916 S Merc. and many other great finds.
To tally what Aundrea and I found, not including the fun junk (buttons, square nails (yes Cindy and I are weird like that) and various other goodies), this is what we came up with:

Aundrea, who used her Classic ID, dug:
•1 - At Dome's Place 5¢ token
•1 - Hart's Place 5¢ token
•1899 Indian Head
•1901 Indian Head
•Ring (non precious metal)
•Jewelry item w/ a tiger eye stone

Very good stuff if I may say so myself. I'll get those scanned as soon as they're cleaned up

Chris (me), who used the Classic IDX Pro
•2- 1919 wheat back cents
•1 - 1918 wheat back cent
•1 - Nyssa Cooper & Fields 10¢ token
•1 - Nyssa Pool Hall 12½¢ token
•1 - The Westfall Proprietor 5¢ token
•Jewelry item that appears to be a part of a women's hair pin with 3 tiny shiny red fake or real gems possibly gold plated.
•What appears to be a liquor bottle in unbroken patina'd condition. Very nice swirls and waves in the glass. This one absolutely amazed me and came so unexpectedly I was litterally shaking. I got a junk signal but in an area I had gotten a couple of wheats dug. As I was digging down there was a few broken bottle pieces that looked to be oldish. Then suddenly out of the side of the hole as I was prying the dirt up came a large chunk at which point I felt a scratchy, scraping feeling. Totally out of the blued came this sweet bottle. Very happy to say the least as this is the oldest bottle I've dug in whole condition.

Below are the photos of the items that I took pictures of when I had my phone/camera on me. Again, the items will be scanned and posted when they're cleaned up as time allows.

Bottle
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-H6wQddb/0/X2/i-H6wQddb-X2.jpg

Aundrea's Indian Heads Obverse
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-CrX7dHc/0/X2/i-CrX7dHc-X2.jpg

... and the reverse
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-JLsdk3h/0/X2/i-JLsdk3h-X2.jpg

Westfall token obverse
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-NsVMnQG/0/X2/i-NsVMnQG-X2.jpg

Westfall token reverse - she's a bit ugly at this point. It's been cleaned up a bit to look better than this but there is a small hole punched in the center
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-b4rtQxZ/0/X2/i-b4rtQxZ-X2.jpg

Cooper & Fields obverse
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Vbj2S7D/0/X2/i-Vbj2S7D-X2.jpg

Cooper & Fields reverse
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-jfdrXn8/0/X2/i-jfdrXn8-X2.jpg

Nyssa Pool Hall obverse
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-cqscq3s/0/X2/i-cqscq3s-X2.jpg

Nyssa Pool Hall reverse
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-KdgvkLH/0/X2/i-KdgvkLH-X2.jpg

What a great weekend detecting, albeit extremely hot and often uncomfortable. Initially I was worried I was headed to another skunk but slowly during the last couple days the long hours pounding the dirt paid off.

Thank you
Chris

[aloldstuff]

Great hunt with some really great finds. :congrats: on all those keepers. Love the tokens

[coinnut]

Nice hunt. Boy them Indians survive good in your dirt. Lot's of tokens too. :clapping: Makes the finds so much better when they clean up that nice.

[Lodge Scent]

Some great finds :congrats: Those IHPs are sharp !

[exploregon]

I actually live in an area where indian heads come out pretty cruddy and we're lucky to clean them up to a point where they're much of any good. That would be on the west side of Oregon. The side that's green and full of parks loaded with chemicals. These all came out of the east side of Oregon where rain isn't so frequent and people generally don't put many additives into the soil. Of course, the dirt on the east side is much, much different than from where I'm from and it does do a great job on the silver, copper, zinc coins and tokens. The Aluminum ones. though are a different story. As you can see from the pictures above the rust gets to them and it's a very cautious cleaning process to salvage what comes out.

Have a great day



Nice hunt. Boy them Indians survive good in your dirt. Lot's of tokens too. :clapping: Makes the finds so much better when they clean up that nice.

[del]

those are some great finds , yes them indians are very nice and i love the store tokens :loveit: :smitten: . getting together with fellow hobbyists and friends is always a treat but then throw in a place with potential decent finds and you have a great time . congrats and can't wait for the closeup pictures. |:cheering:

Dan

[Tony Two-Cent]

Greap post and some nice finds! Your photos are wonderful. Very cool old bottle and I love the photo of the Indian Heads in the dirt!

:congrats: