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>>55134547
Delicious spread ya got there! Speaking of newspaper research, do you use any public digitized databases or do you have any subscriptions to recommend? I've had remarkably good luck researching dumpsites by plugging in searches through all papers in the system for a state prior to say 1930 for "town dump", "city dump", rubbish/trash/garbage dump etc., often the papers don't give great info because location would have been common knowledge to the readers but sometimes they are exceptionally specific and tell you precisely where a town's dump was! After 100 years often those dumps have been built over or reverted to private ownership, but frequently enough to be worthwhile it's still more-or-less public land that one can poke around in. You can also find info in publications like City Comptroller's Reports where they record the expenses, operations and dump locations of the town's garbage department. Last Fall I found a treasure map list from 1917 of dozens of dumps used in my hometown with the number of wagonloads of rubbish dumped in each spot and already pinpointed some primo areas to go prospecting, some took in thousands of wagonloads per year. I salivate whenever I think about it, but soon I should have some fresh finds to share.

>>55134638
>they put the xrf on the .90 setting and it came up no good, I bought it from a super legit numismatist, wonder if it's a counterfeit from ancient times.

Nah that looks legit to me, probably just somewhere in the 80% to sub-90% range, see pic. Crystallization of the silver and presence of sulfide, oxide and chloride may also be interfering, not sure.