Dug Indian Head cent #997 this afternoon.

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

Just three more to go to reach the 1,000 mark in my 32+ years of metal detecting. They are getting harder and harder to find. In the good old days, I could dig 4-5 every outing. Now I'm lucky to find one every 3-4 times out. The trusty old Explorer SE Pro can still sniff them out though. This one was masked by a soda bottle screw cap but I managed to find it about 6 inches below and off to the side of the cap.

 

[Ted S]

Way to go Ed!

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Way to go Ed,

Have you found every date or missing a few? Many Fatties?

Chris

 

[trojdor]

Awesome...

 

[MikeO]

Drum roll as the 1000 mark comes.

 

[michael NY]

way to go!!! outstanding.. only 3 more

 

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

Way to go Ed,

Have you found every date or missing a few? Many Fatties?

Chris

Chris, I'm missing just three. Of course, they are the key dates 1877, 1908-S and 1909-S. Have found many fatties including an 1860 today.

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Ed,

Congrats on today's fattie. I haven't dug one of them for quite some time. I was lucky enough to find both S mints, but am missing quite a few from the 60s and 70s.

Heck, at the rate you are going might as well try for 2k.

Chris

 

[MikeO]

It’s only a matter of time now.
Yes, grass is growing like mad with all this darn rain. I’m tired of cutting it already as it’s cutting into my detecting time.

 

[Robin (Big Fang)]

Great date too Ed! Good to see you are still detecting. I gave it up for a while but it crept back.
Robin