found a oldie but crusty while brush busting

[gordygroover]

It has been bone dry for the last thirty days. That may be normal coditions for those of you living in the hot and dry parts of the country but here, on the wet side of the Cascades (near the coast of Washington state) we get rain hourly. When we go through a drought of three or more days without rain it is Headline News.
Decided to give the parks and playgrounds a break to keep grass damage to a minimum and headed into the forests to find what I could find.
Elk season opens next week so I wanted to hunt some wooded areas before the arrow-flingers showed up.
I was using my Ace250 with stock coil and just wandering through meadows and streams. Lots of streams. How ya think the Cascade mountain range got its name anyway? Found nothing to get excited about but finally got a nice but scratchy signal. Kind of like a nickle sounds to us Ace users. Dug down half the length of my Lesche and popped out a Quarter sized green disc. A bit of spit washing and fingernail scraping and I could see it was a coin. Left it alone at that point and once I got home I gave it a bath and used a artists paint brush to wipe the dirt off.
Now how do you think a 1848 French one cent piece got lost in the middle of nowhere??? All I can think is that some beaver trapper from the mountain man era must have dropped it while making his rounds.
Pretty old coin for this part of the country...worth about four cents in the shape it is in but it was fun taking it to work last night for show and tell.

 

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[size=large]congrats Gordy. gives a little bit of hope to the rest of us in S.W. Wa. read your p.m. and was surprised to hear of such a find.
if ya want to try to post a pic you might be able to use a scanner in place of a camera. if ya have one. that's how i was able to post a couple in the past.i'd post alot more if i could just find some.
anyway that's a great find for this area.

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[flash5153]

Did you give that area a more detailed search?? I seen another post not long ago,,someone else finding a coin out in middle of nowhere. The odds of this being the only coin around is enormous,,or just a random drop 100 + years ago.(and you found it) More likely something was there,,,a small camp possibly. Or area used for some reason.

Even though the coin isn't worth much money,, finding it,after all this time is priceless. Being able to get a date off it is a great thing too. Can we have a picture??

 

[gordygroover]

would love to know how to post a pic...I am such a 'all thumbs' techno-dud that just taking a pic. enabling you to see the tiny detail this coin still has would be a real challenge. Just imagine a corroded green disk he size of a quarter and that is pretty much what it looks like.

 

[deepseeker442]

nice find . 1848 wtg

 

[codydog50]

That is too cool! what an awesome find! You never know what you will find, what rare treat! if only coins could talk! I have a question for you guys from Washington. Can you detect in State Parks?
What about the underground bunkers at Fort Canby? Just a thought? HH...C-Dog

 

[gordygroover]

The parks, interestingly enough are sort of a loosley regulated thing.
Some parks are definately hands off and some allow hunting in certain areas only. Kind of up to the rangers on duty that day and the discretion of the park manager at the time.
No idea about Fort Canby.

 

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[size=large]read up on the regs last year about that. the regs say it is up to the rangers and they get to say where and how. this last year was a bi-centenial for state parks so was a very touchy subject. they poured alot of tax payer money into making them look all pretty.

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[codydog50]

One of these years(maybe next?) I will come out there and we all can hit some of those spots! West of the Coal Creek area there was an old camp where I found pieces of old decorated plates! I was elk hunting and didn't think about the area untill you guys started posting your finds. HH..C-Dog