Never thought I would have found a hole like this. Hit an 1888 house today and pulled my three oldest coins ever from one hole. Was searching the side yard along a field edge and hit a 12-46 at six inches. Was thinking quarter and at this old of a home was hoping barber. Cut the plug and saw a nice old token laying in the hole WRONG. pulled it out put on my glasses and looked a little closer and saw one cent on the back.Oh heck ya my first ever large cent!! Yelled at my son and told him to bring his twenty five year old eyes over here quick. Rescanned the hole and the pointer told me the ride was just starting, pulled two more large and a smaller misshaped copper out. Well when it was all said and done I had the 1794,1817 and 1826 Large cents Never hoped to enter the 1700 club in East central Iowa. Told Tyler that that was almost 100 years older than the site we were on. Snapped some photos and headed for home. Here is the part that makes it funny the small copper disc turns out to be a 1892 Indian that appears to have been beat flat with a hammer. Think it was maybe a deal where some kid was playing with a coin collection circa 1900 and lost them then. They are all in real nice shape and were at 5 to 7 inches. Don't know if that is how they got there or not and do not care just on top of the world to have found them.
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Dad it is a 1794,an1817 and a 1826
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bigbuck1975
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Can you say wow, WOW and WOW!!, pretty incredible!
GroundScanner
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Very nice coins. Sweet spill
tarheeldiggin
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Amazing finds! What a hole! Yes, the Indian does look like it was flattened on a train track. Great job!
Thanks for the picks.DiggerODirt
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Interesting mix...I just cannot see those in someones pocket to be dropped...Had to have been burried or as you think, some kid playing with Dads collection.
HH,
HH,
looknforgold
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Wow.......Congrats a some awesome finds, that's the kind of hole I'd love to dig.
Digger I agree those coins are to old to be a pocket spill in this area Iowa was not ever a state until 1842 I believe and the house was built in 1888. Talked to some people today that told me it was a century farm. The same Family has owned it since it was granted to them by the government. Also if you look at the pics you can see on the 1817 LC the spot of green where the Indian layed on it. They were touching when I pulled those two out tells me they went in the ground after 1882 the year on the Indian. Will never know. HH
