YES!!! Bucket Lister!!!

[Ill Digger]

The whole family had plans today which left me with a little free time. Hmmm :thinkingabout::thinkingabout:what to do? Haha :hystericallaugh: I'm going detecting!

I went to a old farm that I've been working for a couple of years. The farmer came out to see what I was finding and told me about the ghost town that was partially on his land! I knew about the ghost town but never realized there homes supposedly on this side of the river. So I had to check know it out! After walking through the muddy field not seeing any signs of a old home site I started to get a little discouraged. About then I started to see lots of broken glass, earthenware, bricks, clam shells, iron bits! Yep! He was right! Something was here!

After about three hours I had little to show for the huge effort I was putting in. Did I mention the ground has refroze hard as concrete again and to make it real interesting the frost started to come out as the tempts finally got above freezing and three plowed field turned into a sticky, slim coated mess!!! I had about had it with shot gun brasses, brass rivets, bits of iron with occasional chunk of can slaw. :mad: As I started making my way towards my truck is got a screaming signal that was broken and the VDI was jumping all over the place. Without much hope of it be anything good I jabbed my shovel into the frozen ground and a big chunk of frozen dirt went flying about 3 feet. As I looked back at the ground and was reloading for another careless stab at the frozen dirt I seen a round object in the frost!:huh: I bent over and got real close to see this...

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As my eyes started to bugout :shocked03:said to myself "that's a seated quarter!" :shocked04:
Whoo hoo!!! :yahoo:First one! Scratch that off my bucket list!
It looks like the plow got it this past fall:crying01:. But oh well!

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You can imagine my excitement! I thought my heart was going to jump out my chest!
I stood up took two step and bent over to pick up a broken blob top bottle I see this!

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First to touch this in ..... who knows how long!
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Pretty exciting 5 minutes! I ended up staying for another 2 1/2 hours with only a bail seal as my only good find.

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http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx310/IllDigger/Mobile%20Uploads/20170211_170823_zpswh1z4gel.jpg (http://s766.photobucket.com/user/IllDigger/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20170211_170823_zpswh1z4gel.jpg.html)

The other finds.

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Dont ya just love it when a plan comes together!

Thanks for lookin & HH :peace:

[Digger Don]

Great job Tim.:clapping: I'm so happy for you!
I'm still waiting for my first seated quarter. I guess that muddy field wasn't so bad after all.
That arrow head is so cool as well.
:congrats: on a great day !!

[Ken C]

Beautiful, congrats!

[Digger_O'Dell]

Awesome find, congrats!

[aloldstuff]

The elusive seated quarter.....:smitten::smitten:. Still looking for my 1st, huge congrats Tim. Nice point also.

[Full Metal Digger]

Great finds Timmay! I hope you didn't rub that seated quarter! LOL :rofl: BTW, the projectile point looks like a Rice Side-Notched (not shallow side-notched). Excellent finds my friend! HH, Dave.

[Tony Two-Cent]

Huge congrats on your first Seated Quarter, Tim! :clapping:

A find like that can make it all worth it! Coincidentally, my first three Seated Quarters were all 1876-S just like yours. It must have circulated in abundance here in Illinois.

:perfect10:

[Bucknut]

Congrats on your first seated quarter!

[del]

:perfect10: Congrats on the bucket list coin , Tim :cheering:I like the stone point very much too ! :smitten:

[milco]

Hey Tim, congrats on making it out in Feb, and awesome finds! Big Kudos on the Seated Quarter!


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[Fire Fighter 43]

A BIG congrats Tim on a first! That is a great find for the Midwest, WTG.

[Ken C]

WOW!! :perfect10: Beautiful, congrats!!

[Lodge Scent]

Nice! Old silver and old quartz in the same hunt :congrats:

[MangoAve]

Grats on an seated quarter, Tim-meh. That's one coin that I had scored that I was happy I could say I nabbed, whilst others who have pulled other bucket listers that I cant seem to find yet, hadn't found. I'm sure there has to be something waiting to be found at that ghost town area. Clam shells are more often found right near the structure. The standing 1820's house where I got the Hu-Poo cash coin had clam shells right by the front threshold stone. The cellar that looked like it had a hallway connected to the carriage house had clam shells right by the mound for the main cellar.

[wisconsin digger]

Nice bucket lister, hopefully I can get out next week. Great find WD

[Nesdore]

Wow nice Seated Quarter :shocked04: congrats man nice arrow head as well :congrats:

[The Rebel]

Man those are a killer finds!

[RaZR]

Well worn but still a beauty! Congrats Tim. :cheesysmile:

I've found 3 seated quarters since I started all 1876. One plain one S and one CC.