February 2023, Recent Relic Finds
February 2023, Recent Relic Finds I have not been able to get the relic-hunting machines into the winter fields as much as I would like. I thought about aging and semi-retirement (what I call not being able to find enough business to call myself fully working – believe me I want to work, too!) would give me enough time to sate my overwhelming desire to pull ‘mysteries of histories’ out of the ground. As parenthetically implied above, this is not necessarily true. I still crave the peeps, squeaks, and moans of the metal detector. The weather has not been bad. It is easy digging. I have found plenty of new, often undiscovered and uncovered – by other relic hunters – spots to ply my hobby, and my son, Tom, and I have had some reasonably good finds. But the diggings have been good. Above are displayed one of God’s little anomalies, and yes, relic hunting is a religious experience for me. Concerning the two dimes above, I found the one dated 1856 is exactly 100 years ol...