A First For Me

[RLOH]

I have been detecting for close to 20 years and spend 100's of hours in the field every year. I have found many good finds with many found just by being able to be out there swinging a coil. My favorite Whites detector is a DFX and with having spent over a thousand hours with one of these fine detectors, I know them like the "back of my hand". With that said, I have never found a change purse of any age. Yesterday that changed and I found one, but it was not all that old. I was hunting an area that I have been over many times, but this time I was using a 13 inch Ultimate coil on my DFX. I got a bouncing 30 to 90 signal that is usually trash, but since it pinpointed 8 inches deep and it was a slow morning, I dug it. I found a piece of plastic that had "Little Orphan Annie" written on it with rusty iron on the top. Right away I knew it was a change purse, but was not all that old with it being made of plastic(rubber) material. I pried the rusty clasp open only to have it separate in half. I cleaned the dirt off and saw an outline of coin in the very bottom corner. I picked out a penny and when I cleaned it off, it was a wheat penny. There was another right that stuck to the rubber and it was also a wheat. When I examined this pouch closer, I saw a faint outline of another coin right next to where the wheats were located, but the coin was not with it. I took my coil and ran it over the area and got a 91 signal a foot from the plug. It was a 1953 roosie. Nothing earth shattering, but a coin purse just the same. I can only imaging finding something like this, but from the 1800's.

 

[Elton]

......and it was in a change purse. One more item off your bucket list.. GREAT JOB !!

 

[Hombre]

RL,

Very cool coin purse find, I think little Orphan Annie was still popular in the 50's

a buddy of mine found an early 1900's purse, the remaining leather piece's still had the impressions of the coins inside.

 

[pescadore]

You picked a good iffy signal to dig !! Congrats on the Rosie and Wheats.