This was an awesome detection with Mike of Gr8Finds. We find some very interesting things. Do you recognize the old silver coin Mike finds and the old hammered coin I found? Really interesting! I hope you enjoy the video and please don't forget to give it a like and subscribe! Thanks... Chigg You can find Mikes's RU-vid channel here: www.youtube.com/@gr8finds196/videos
That elephant is gorgeous! Four hours in and I’m over 8000th in the queue….. I’ve been trying conscientiously to “like” my favourite videos now as I realise it affects your algorithm. Anything to help. I’m sitting on a sunny New Zealand winter afternoon, drinking tea and munching a muffin after gardening. I do enjoy your videos, always fun, always interesting. Today I learned how to identify inert military anti aircraft shells. Always useful. 😊 the RANGE of things you find is amazing. I’ve watched you for years now, definitely one of my bestest 20, my hubs thinks I’m mad, but I’ve learned so much. Here’s to many more fun years tagging along on your adventures 🎉🎉🎉🎉
That “token” might just be the find of the trip Chigg. It is also a Nepalese coin like the silver one but the only examples I could find remotely like it were from the Lichavvi Kingdom and hammered in the 600s AD. The animal on the coin is a lion.
According to other replies here the 2 coins/tokens were from Nepal and I was thinking that the elephant head may also be an antique and from that area of Asia(Nepal). Take Care All
Awesomely weird finds! I found a large brass token when i was kid living in Hawaii, of all places, in a play ground. The token has the enscription; 'GOOD FOR ONE SCREW MADAME RUTH JACOBS PROP which is encircled by SILVER DOLLAR HOTEL DENVER, COLO
Some kid probably used his Dad's WWII relic from Burma as a fishing weight. "Son, have you seen my salt shaker elephant head or my plumb bob." Son. "A what?" Some very awesome finds.
At 2:14, appears to be the end of a duck decoy weight. Would have had a stem around 8 inches long the diameter of the spot in the middle of the piece you found. There was a hole for line to be attached on the opposite end. The stem was very soft lead and could be wrapped around the decoy’s head for storage. Sorry to say, not an old piece.
Hey Chigg, what kind of metal detector do you use? I think i have the exact same on! The coil on yours looks identical to mine. I think mine a garret AT Pro possibly, i can be bothered to get off the toilet and go look lol. Also I was wondering if you have any tips for beginners... I keep finding just aluminum tabs and trash. I have headphones and I've tried to use the technique that people have done on videos of hunting in and listening to the tone but even when it seems like it's a good tone it's always just trash like aluminum or a rusty bolt. If you haven't already do you think you could do a video on how to listen to the tone to find good stuff? Or maybe just listening to the tone to filter out at least some of the trash? Any tips would be greatly appreciated! I've had my detector for at least about 8 months and taking it out a handful of times but it's getting very frustrating... I don't want to give up on because it seems like a very fun sport, but after finding the 256th Pop can tab im about to lose my marbles lol!!!
That elephant head looks to be quite old, that style of elephant representation with the short trunk could be from around 1850 to 1900. If it was lead , it might have been a child's toy where just the head remains.
@@gr8finds196 That's interesting, I wonder if it was part of a mechanical piggy bank, where you put a coin on a spot and the character moves and puts it in the bank. They were all made out of cast iron.
@@aquachigger You may have to start a museum at some point, do you have plans for your collection in the future? You have a small Smithsonian Civil War exhibit!
SILVER COIN FOUND BY GREAT FINDS, NEPAL, mohar, 1692 SE (1770 AD) VALUE $35.00... SADLY! AND YES ITS A GREAT FIND, MOST AWESOME!! LOL NEPAL, Prithvi Narayan, 1768-1775, mohar, 1692 SE (1770 AD), Reverse: sword in 3 sectioned circle, silver, 30mm, 5.47g, KM454.2, toned VF
The wrench you found we used on the railroad. it was called a spanner wrench . The pointed end was used to align hole up for either bolts or pins such as grab irons or brake rigging. The wrench end was used to tighten up square nuts.
Question for the Chiggster and all his commenters?: How does one get “smoke from Canadian wildfires” in the Maryland/W.Virginia/ Virginia area when a hot, muggy airmass ruled by prevailing winds out of the south/southwest was firmly in place at the time?
