Yes 100% my grandfather worked with leather and my grandfather in La always carried different coin like pieces of metal when waking his horse and goat farm. He also worked with leather and metal.
I have my great grandmothers leather working tools, there is a brass disc in it that was used as a backing plate. It’s roughly the same size as that coin with holes in it
Your videos have a rather unique look to them. I don't know if it is some sort of filter, a unique digital setting, or something else of the like, but the video quality stands out in a way that is hard to describe. This observation is not only within the context of other metal detecting videos, but among a vast array of other RU-vid videos. In other words, the quality of the videos on your channel stands out in a unique and considerably manner. 'Coupled with the superb comment you produce, it continuously draws me back. Your videos are a pleasure to watch!
My Wife and I watch several RU-vidrs across different subjects weekly religiously, and after all the conversations we have come the conclusion that you are the favorite to watch, for the content and your excitement.
Great video Brad. I’m in New Hampshire and appreciate not only your endurance of the extreme heat we’re experiencing but the good fortune of your finds in today’s video. Love your narrative, self-created soundtrack and the omnipresent grin on your face, revealing your delight in your finds. Well done.
Brad, I find mostly modern coins and rings...your finds are great, they are a part of history. As for your summer heat, I was from N.J. and I thought it was hot in the summer. Until I moved to Texas 30+ years ago...At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="513">8:33</a> AM this morning it was already 92. Now I'm use to these temps, for example last summer we had over 100 days of 105 temp with the humidity of 100%. With this weather, you have to change into dry clothes often.
Hey there.I Lost your channel last year thru stupidity. So glad I found you again. When you're 83 you forget a lot of stuff but never forgot watching your adventures. It's nice to see you're still at it. I've re-subscribed so won't lose you again.!!💕
Sorry Brad, I have been Absent from watching your videos, I’ve had Total Knee Replacement on my right side.Therapy and going back to work have been my focal point. Congrats on getting to detect the field and I enjoyed your video and the new bar up top. See you next time. May the Colonial Guard guide you to your next Big find. Amen?!
Really like your videos. And the thrill of the hunt! Used to love to metal detect. Even did it working for the Fishers in the Fla Straights on the Atocha wreck n the East Coast 1715 plate fleet gallon wrecks. Most of our work involved dredging with a huge lift into a Sleth box. Little gold (not much) lots of silver coins, pottery, pieces of wheel lock pistols, emeralds, barrel hoops, etc.. But my best find with an underwear metal detector was a pair of cannonier scissors. On land lots of pop tops. 😂 Treasure is where ya find it. Love the history and the stories behind it. Keep up the great work n stay Cool. 😊
I watch a lot of these and I’ve never been to your site before and you’re so impressive because you teach as well as you med detect and I’ve already learned so much. This is amazing. You are very good at this.
I’d like to see you do another short series… it take place in the early 1800 showing how people might have lost their coins, buttons maybe hidden treasures in a stone wall. Like a time machine it’s now mid to late 1800 still in the same location. Late 1800 they abandoned their farms. How do the treasures get deeper and deeper into to ground. It’s now early 1900’s what are they losing, same location. It’s modern day, you detect this same location with flash backs to when it was lost as you dig it up. Show us made the dimples, who shot the musket balls. How did they feel when they lost a coin
I would love too find out where you would be detecting in the future and plant a coin where you would find it, on the coin would be engraved " Brad, we have been trying to contact you about your extended car warranty" that would be epic. 🤣
Wow dude, great finds! Living in Va. we are finding very similar things. The button with cross hatch pattern: just awesome and got one also. I learned a lot about the coppers that corrode easier from listening to you and reading some of the comments. I just thought it was soil conditions. I heard that the musket balls tasted sweet to the solders for chewing on. Dry mouth makes sense also. From my experience, the double hit you had on the coin meant that the coin was on edge underground. Thanks for the great vid. I will definitely check out you again. Great job.
The indents in the coin could be from a Punch for leather repair, Copper was soft enough to not damage the punch but hard enough to let the punch go through the leather.
Congrats on the 4 Coppers Brad. Love the Buttons. My favorite piece is the piece of Buckle. Can only imagine what it would of looked like complete. Beautiful. Take Care Brad
I've found a few things from the homesteading days (1880's) in the fields on the family farm. There was a homesteading claim by one of my great-great grandfathers by a water hole. There's not much to be found though. Some bits of brick, broken glass or ceramics, now and then an old square nail. The homesteaders didn't have much and the claims typically weren't occupied that long before a more permanent house was built. I've never been out there with a metal detector though.
Great show as always,would be great to hear the detector louder for the audio not numbers people as there is a lot of us who dont bother with numbers 😮 ,thanks
Have you ever ventured up into Lowell Vermont? I was born and raised up there on the mink Farm Road. I wish I was still in Vermont as I could show you a few locations including where a cellar hole to a old store is along with a strange set of holes not too far away as well as where a homestead used to be. I could probably mark the store and homestead on a map but the two odd holes are a little harder to find. The store and holes are on my fathers old land. There is also a old rumor of a smugglers cave somewhere on Lowell mountain but I don't think anyone knows where it is anymore.
LOL ! When he recounts the story that farmers would make washers out of coins because they were cheaper than buying them, I have been doing it for years! If I need a stainless steel washer I fish around in my detecting find’s can and snag a nickel , and drill the proper size holes. Same with pennies, my house and projects are peppered with copper clad zinc core “washers”. It is a lot more convenient and cheaper to make ‘em on demand.
What a great hunt as always Brad. Great way to start my Friday seeing your video's and getting pump up for my day of detecting as well. Great finds. All the best John.
That coin looked to me like someone had used it as the base to pierce or punch a hole in something else on, like a tiny anvil; I've done that myself when the only other surfaces near me were stone, harder metal or things I didn't want scarred. On the other hand, I have a pair of jeans where the toggle-type buttons were badly mounted and pulled loose; I wanted something different to replace them, so I put two holes each through a couple of dimes, dished them with a ball-peen hammer and turned them into buttons (I know nickels are more traditional but I didn't need anything that big! They look pretty good, too.) My sympathies about the heat; stay smart, hydrate and seek the shade whenever you can-- it's a little cooler today here since we're in Monsoon Season and had a beautiful thunderstorm last night, but it'll be back up to the usual tomorrow (106F; greetings from Arizona.)
I have permission to prime Ca. gold country just above the Ca. gold strike of 1849. been in the family 200 years. my point is all the gold i find and 49er artifacts are given to the land owners as a thank you for their trust and keys to every gate, because i just Love doing it' p.s. they always tell me you found it you can have it. true story, never sold a pice of gold it just piles up. ring my bell any time i subscribed can,t wait for friday thank you Sir LonnieRay
I'm surprised you didn't find more of the shoe buckle. Seems like much more is deep in the ground. Some rain might help,or maybe they can plow the field. Glad you were able to get what you did!
Hey Brad, With the small holes in that first disc you found it may have been used as a backer for a tool to punch through leather for a rivet hole. Wood is too soft and steel too hard and damaging to the point of a tool that might be used as a punch.
I heard a story of a revolutionary war battle that took place mid-summer and some of the soldiers were so thirsty they chewed musket ball to moisten their mouths, also, at one of my permissions here in Massachusetts ( an old tavern site) I’ve found a Irish James ll and a British Charles the second, both half pennys and both had a VDI of 68-69 on my Deus ll. Nice work Brad!!
Awesome video as always Brad. I think your low ringing KG2 is a Hibernia, those ring off lower than a typical KG2 British half penny. We learned that recently, but we also thought it was a Machin Mills counterfeit. What a great day digging in the heat! Happy Hunting and good luck, Jim and Mason 🙂
Great property.... Keep returning. Bring a cooler full of ice and water when it's a billion degrees outside. I feel like I've seen a basket weave design button rather recently. You might want to ask your friends at Quarter Hoarder or Hoover Boys.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a> One of two things about the hole, the poorer people didn't have pockets or change purses and would string up their coins and wear them like necklaces or bracelets or sew the to the inside of a shirt or jacket. Judging by the pattern of the attempted holes someone tried to replace a Dandy button by making a penny into a button.
Brad, There is a handheld device used by field geologist that can tell the composition and proportions of metals etc. in coins and rocks etc. It's quite pricey, but if you know any field geologists or can get in touch, perhaps as an entertaining way of identifying them, then it would be possible to know what you have. Just something to ponder. When your hot, you hot and when your not, your in the shade. Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen good out in the mid d ay sun:) Best Wishes, Frederick "Rik" Spector
Nice Brad. Maybe the coin with all the holes was used to back up something else, that was having holes punched into it...just a thought...I see I'm not the only one that thought this...
I am a lot older than you so from a different era and done a lot of things younger gens have not. I chewed on some pure lead fishing weights as a very young kid in the 60's while fishing the creeks and there is no sweetness to lead I remember
