Kevin Nelson
New member
I had been having good luck at an old unused school that was about to be torn down out in the country. I had found about 20 + silver there including a standing quarter. Also found there were V nickel , a 1926-s merc.(that I sold for $54).Also I have found some military buttons there that I have not researched yet. Long story short , a local that went to the school as a kid said they used to play in the woods behind the school when kids. I waited till the winter and a month ago went into the woods and found a buff. nickle war nic. and merc. So my attention was gotten. I went back several times , pulled more buffs and war nics., few wheats , nothing earth shaking. Well since the first of the year I deceided to keep this years finds all together in a coffee can . In the woods there I dug a below zinc penny signal with my F75 that I thought might be a indian penny. It was a good repeatable signal so I dug. It appeared to be a smooth penny coated over in heavy corrosion . The merc I had dug was almost black due to the woods. When I got home I tried to clean the smoothy but no luck. I soaked it in some hot sauce for a night , but that did no good. I put the smoothy in with the clad coins in my coffee can and forgot about it . Today I got rained out at work and had time to go through the first 2 months of the years finds, I counted up my clad and found the smoothy. I figured it was a cull penny so I took some fine sand paper to it and it looked gold. Checked the diameter of that size coin and it checked out in the $5 1/2 eagle range . After close look could make out the Indians chin, nose and mouth. Confirmed by a faint Liberty where it should be and a star at 7 o'clock. In summery beware the smoothy.
