A trio of Indian head cents including a fattie and semi-key.

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

Found a little hot spot in the hunted out city park and dug these three deep indian head cents this morning. 1863 fattie, 1868 and 1901. Finally have my trusty Explorer Se Pro settings back to where they need to be ! This shot was after a hot peroxide bath for the 1868 and 1901 cents.

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds man for the amount of years Indians were minted I surely do not find many I find way more silver lol
Mark

 

[still looking 52]

You must have a special setting just for IH pennies, I've yet to find my first, nice job.

 

[woody]

I've found a few on the farm here over the years. Still get excited. I think they are beautiful. You found some nice ones.

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Ed,

Nice looking coins; you must have some nice soil there.

 

[longbone]

What is a fattie?

 

[laplander]

Mid 64' and older were a nickel based coin so they come out of the ground red like a nickel, they are also noticeably thicker, hence the nick name "fattie" Being nickel based they read lower than later Indians on the TID.
HH Jeff

 

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

Certain areas of this park has a nice "sugar sand" soil that is very kind to copper coins.

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Ed,

Up at our cabin much of the soil is beach sand, black dirt only as deep as the grass roots, everything else seems to percolate down through the sand. I've dug IHs that still are copper colored there. Here in Wisconsin mainly hunting a river valley with very friendly soil, but if I travel east very far get into a more clay based soil, and copper is often toast.

My GF threw some crusty cents that I had given up on in some vinegar, and lo and behold most of the crusties cam off without completely killing the coin. Will experiment more; will tumble them later. These were green grungy discs impervious to H2O2, Tried electrolysis on similar ones with bad results. Who knew?

One nice thing about the nice soil is that I have an IH collection that includes many coins lost very early in their lives, many EF or almost uncirculated.

Chris

 

[JimmyCT]

Very nice finds indeed!!