Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.
Congratulations Digger on a most excellent find!!:yikes:
- Thread starter I a thr
- Start date
I certainly appreciate your generous "hospitality" today! 
[sub][/sub]The past few days have been pretty tough for me, health wise. When Bill and I talked early this morning, I figured it was going to be another of those days. So, I wished him well and resigned myself to spending the day thinking about detecting instead of actually detecting. When Bill called back around noon, saying he just found a seated half-dime, I couldn't sit still any longer. It took me about an hour to reach the site, an 1850's homestead along the river. Now that may not sound old to some of you. But considering this part of the Country wasn't settled intil about that time, it is old in our books! Anyway, armed with my trusty X-70 and the 6-inch DD at 18.75 kHz, I started out toward the middle of the field where Bill had been digging (and eyeing) a few coins. Normally, this field woud be waist high in corn. But recent flooding has ruined many crops, and even kept some from being planted. Such was the case with this field.
After GBing the X-70 at 41, I wandered out into what has to be the toughest hunting I've ever done. It was very easy to walk in the sandy loam soil. But the trash was terrible! Not only was the ground littered with broken glass and rusty nails, there were pieces of "farm iron" everywhere. Horse shoes, harness rings, harness rivots, implement pieces, etc. Seriously, hunting in all metal, multi-tone, I was getting 7 or 8 tones with each sweep. Knowing that there just had to be at least one more silver coin hiding here, I remained optimistic. Not more than 10 minutes into the hunt, I separated a solid 24 on the TID. Xing the target, it bounced from 24 one direction to 22 perpendicularly. I hoped the 24 would represent an old IH cent, as Bill had dug a couple of them already. Much to my surprise, it wasn't an IH cent. Adjacent to all the iron and nails, I pulled out the first Silver 3 cent piece I've found in my 35+ years of detecting. Although it was caked with dirt and a bit of corrosion, I knew by the size exactly what it was. Carefully wiping a bit of the dirt off, I was able to make out what was obviously the little star on the face of the coin with the date 1852. Not wanting to damage it in anyway, I decided to wait until I got home to clean it up.
[attachment 95789 dirty3centsilver.jpg]
I did do a bit of rinsing when I got it home. But it looks like some of this crud is going to have to soak overnight.
[attachment 95787 threecentsilver.jpg]
For those who may not realize how small these silver 3-cent pieces are, here is a pic of it with a seated dime I found recently.
[attachment 95790 3centsilverandseateddime.jpg]
Like I said, I had hunted over 35 years and never found a 3-cent piece. Within the past month, I've found two of them. I found the 3-cent nickel on May 30, and the 3-cent silver today.
Hey Bill, thanks for coaxing me out of the house and demonstrating, once again, what a great brother you are. But the next half-dime is mine!
HH Randy
[sub][/sub]The past few days have been pretty tough for me, health wise. When Bill and I talked early this morning, I figured it was going to be another of those days. So, I wished him well and resigned myself to spending the day thinking about detecting instead of actually detecting. When Bill called back around noon, saying he just found a seated half-dime, I couldn't sit still any longer. It took me about an hour to reach the site, an 1850's homestead along the river. Now that may not sound old to some of you. But considering this part of the Country wasn't settled intil about that time, it is old in our books! Anyway, armed with my trusty X-70 and the 6-inch DD at 18.75 kHz, I started out toward the middle of the field where Bill had been digging (and eyeing) a few coins. Normally, this field woud be waist high in corn. But recent flooding has ruined many crops, and even kept some from being planted. Such was the case with this field.
After GBing the X-70 at 41, I wandered out into what has to be the toughest hunting I've ever done. It was very easy to walk in the sandy loam soil. But the trash was terrible! Not only was the ground littered with broken glass and rusty nails, there were pieces of "farm iron" everywhere. Horse shoes, harness rings, harness rivots, implement pieces, etc. Seriously, hunting in all metal, multi-tone, I was getting 7 or 8 tones with each sweep. Knowing that there just had to be at least one more silver coin hiding here, I remained optimistic. Not more than 10 minutes into the hunt, I separated a solid 24 on the TID. Xing the target, it bounced from 24 one direction to 22 perpendicularly. I hoped the 24 would represent an old IH cent, as Bill had dug a couple of them already. Much to my surprise, it wasn't an IH cent. Adjacent to all the iron and nails, I pulled out the first Silver 3 cent piece I've found in my 35+ years of detecting. Although it was caked with dirt and a bit of corrosion, I knew by the size exactly what it was. Carefully wiping a bit of the dirt off, I was able to make out what was obviously the little star on the face of the coin with the date 1852. Not wanting to damage it in anyway, I decided to wait until I got home to clean it up.
[attachment 95789 dirty3centsilver.jpg]
I did do a bit of rinsing when I got it home. But it looks like some of this crud is going to have to soak overnight.
[attachment 95787 threecentsilver.jpg]
For those who may not realize how small these silver 3-cent pieces are, here is a pic of it with a seated dime I found recently.
[attachment 95790 3centsilverandseateddime.jpg]
Like I said, I had hunted over 35 years and never found a 3-cent piece. Within the past month, I've found two of them. I found the 3-cent nickel on May 30, and the 3-cent silver today.
Hey Bill, thanks for coaxing me out of the house and demonstrating, once again, what a great brother you are. But the next half-dime is mine!
HH Randy
BarnacleBill
New member
n/t
my friend
. Honestly though, what I saw of it, condition was very nice. Hopefully that old dark spot soaks off. Had a great time. Jackpine Savage
Active member
n/t
sarge1stone
New member
Sweeeeet ! Nice Find!