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    Got in a little practice before leaving for England

    Larry and I got out for a short while this morning before leaving for England next Thursday to metal detect. We got to the site about 9:30 and I had to leave at 1:30, so it was not an all day hunt, but we did OK. I got 5 Indians 1882,1884,1890,1895 & 1899, 2 V-Nickels 1897 (sad) and a 1906 and 2...
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    The Romas are here, The Romans are here

    My finds from my last England trip finally got here and seeing as how not much digging is going on in our area right now I thought I would post one of my favorite Roman coins that I dug last trip. It is almost quarter size and on the obverse it shows the bust of a man looking right and on the...
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    Just not his day.....................

    Larry and I got to hunt today and it was "tuff" in the corn fields, it was muddy and the corn stocks were tall, we went looking for a house site, finally found it way away from where the map showed, we may have found a different one, didn't find any keepers, misc. brass and copper pieces and...
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    My 2 Cents Worth

    I'll start out by making a short story long, last week I sent my F75 in for an update and a new coil, so I did not hunt any until last Monday and I went out for 2 hours with the Fisher F2 I got for my better half, went to a newer area and I got 17 clad quarters, 8 clad dimes, 2 Jefferson Nickels...
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    Army and Navy, Indians, Eagle and Keys

    Larry and I got out for a while today, well longer than a while about 7 1/2 hours. I was very happy with the first hunt of 2008. I started out with a civil war Eagle cuff button, then I dug a civil war token that reads on one side "Army and Navy" and the other side reads "The Federal Union It...
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    A little less mud today

    I got over to Larry's about 2 this afternoon, I had to load the van to go do the show in Louisville this week end. Any way we went to a spot where we knew there was a house and it was not in corn or beans, don't know what it was it was not quite as muddy as yesterday. Hunted for a few minutes...
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    F75 will work in Mud......

    Got invited to hunt an old fairgrounds with some friends and we had a great day, until the MUD run us out, in the morning when we got there the ground was some what froze, a little hard to dig but you could, by 1 in the afternoon the field was like thick soup, mud, mud and more mud, your feet...
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    Found a nice one today

    Larry and I went out and checked a spot we thought was a train stop in 1872, weeds were high and lots of modern trash. I did manage a very nice 1865 2 cent piece. Gotta love the F75, Thanks for looking and HH...........Lee [attachment 74790 124a.jpg] [attachment 74791 124b.jpg]
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    Back in a Cornfield with the F75

    Larry and I stopped at a cornfield where at one time a one room school stood, I did well, I got a 1859, 1880 and a 1900 Indian, I'll get my new small coil this week and I believe I'll do better in the corn fields as it will get to places the larger coil won't. Going to Virginia to hunt relics...
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    Big 4 and a Casualty

    Larry and I went back to the house site yesterday where I found the Barber Quarter and he got Indians the day before. We found lots and lots of brass items and misc. junk. I did find a wheat penny "WOW" I also managed a couple of nice items. The button is from the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago...
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    Old Abe and the Indian Meet the Barber

    Larry and I were back out again today, we started at a site where there was a one room school years ago, we had already hunted it before, so we went across the fence (with permission) to check where we had not hunted..Long story short I got a 1893 Indian, we then went to a house site where the...
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    In a Corn Field

    Larry and I went a house site that the corn had just been taken out this week-end. Hard to hunt but we did manage some Indians..I got a 1864 and 1867 Indian, You cannot tell it in the scan but the 1867 has a full Liberty. I also got a very nice suspender clip from the Centennial..it has the...
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    Is it a 2 cent Silver ???

    Larry and I went back to a couple of house sites we had hunted before, we both got 3 flat buttons, One of Larry's was a large one piece flower button with lots of gold gilt still on it. We both got misc. brass items. I also got 2/3 of a 1853 3 Cent Silver, So I guess it is a 2 Cent Silver....We...
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    It's A Half

    Larry and I met up with Keith and Mark and went to some old house sites in central Indiana, Larry got a nice 1876 Seated Quarter, Keith got a 1969 Indian and I got a 1854 Half......Dime. The F-75 did it again............Lee
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    Great day In The Corn Field, I forgot....

    I had my F75 set on sens.80, disc.6, notch 1, sounds 3 and I ran plowed field in the corn as the coil was always up and down getting around the stalks, also I for the close up of the Large cent................Lee
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    Great Day In The Corn Field

    Larry and I went to a friend of his that said he had found bricks in his field, the corn was out so we tried it. we found the house site and and lots of misc. brass etc. some flat buttons, after about 3 hours we left and went to another spot that the corn had just be taken out, talk about tough...
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    Back to the bean Fields

    Larry and I went back to the house site where we dug the 8 buttons the other day, today I dug a 1859 Indian, a 1868 2 Cent Piece, a Civil War Knapsack hook, and lots of misc. brass.The knapsack hook is not that rare, but you don't find many here in east central Indiana. I read the posts here and...
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    Half Cent ???

    Larry and I went back to the plowed field where we have been hunting..A decent signal is getting very hard to fine, I am talking about "Well maybe I'll dig it" Not sure fire signals....:cry: I did manage a signal that started out low tone and after I scrapped a couple inches of dirt away, I got...
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    Got Whuped Today

    Larry and I went back to the plowed field where I got the 1850 large cent on Monday, We hunted about 4 hours got lots of brass items, suspender clips, flat buttons, toe plates, etc. Then Larry got the nicest 2 cent piece I have ever seen dug, if it was not green it would grade AU 55+. About 15...
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    Plowed Field Again

    Larry and I went late Monday morning to meet up with a farmer that Larry got permission to hunt his land, he marked his land on the 1875 county map that Larry has. After we meet the farmer and he marked the map we went to see if we could find about where the old houses were, we got to where we...
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