Ground is frozen; year is over.....

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Well,

Last year was the first with no Large Cents found; this year no Large Cents and no seated either.

Memories of the good days:

2004 seated minus one half dime.

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2003's finds

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And perhaps lowest coin counts only 70 some silver and 50-60 IHs.

But I did find a few key dates this year.

1892-O Barber Half found at old cabin site.

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1922 Plain die set two wheatie. Found while detecting with James(ND). He is young enough to not be in the needing-reading-glasses-set and ID'ed first.

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1908-S Indian head. I found the 1909-S the year before. That coin completed one page of my IH coin folder. A rare event when all coins are found, not purchased. Wheatie folders are getting close, would have another page done except for three holes for the 1943 steelies. I've found a few in coin spills. Perhaps I can glue a gob of rust in the holes and lie about the mint marks.

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And I did finally get over to Rick(ND)'s bar in Chaffee North Dakota and met up with him and James(ND).

Also met up with Mike Moutray and Golddigger this spring for a little digging. Was good to finally have faces to associate with all the postings.

Another highlight was finding a bunch of store tokens for a family that had a store from 1880's through the 1930's: .25, .50, and 1.00 tokens. Don't see those big of denominations often for store tokes. Not sure what that says about that merchant. Hopefully get some pics of them some day.

This is my sixth year with the explorer; 2007 was the first year I tried a different detector- an Fisher F-75. Good detector; but I bought it in hopes that some of the areas I had pounded with the explorer would give up a few more to a new detector, doesn't seem to be the case.

Well, it is starting to snow as I type this.

Small chance we will get a warmer spell that thaws the ground before the end of the year; it's happened before. Otherwise time for some research and permission gaining.

Chris

 

[James N.D.]

That Collection of Seated Coins is Amazing, especially the amount you found in each year. I find a Seated once in awhile but not that many! Nice Pic's of the Barber Half, '22 Plain Wheat, and the Indian Head. Wish you Luck in your Research and when the time comes, the Permission to hunt the sites. Glad to have hunted with you and hopefully, we can get together again next season with Rick. Good Luck and HH Buddy!

 

[Ken(IL)]

Chris that's a REAL nice collection of coins congrats. I hear you on trying to beat the Explorer, a buddy and I have tried but in our area nothing seems to come close. I'll be with you at the research table we have a bunch of nice leads I hope we get permission as well. Look forward to seeing your finds for next year. Take care & HH Ken

 

[mattockman]

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[Elton]

Chris..I am impressed....great finds.

 

[ihuntrelics!]

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[Rick(ND)]

Not sure which detector I will use as I do well with the Sovereign, but the SE is awesome plus that F-75 been doing good for me and so light to swing for a old man to detect with.
Those seated coins Chris has sure do look great, will have to see if we can find a few James next year, better yet lets find and bunch.

 

[gobble-gobble]

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[James N.D.]

Hopefully next season will be the one that let's you land a Seated Quarter. I would love to see the joy from you like a little kid in a Candy Store! Until next spring, Good Luck and HH.

 

[Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO]

Wait til next year, Chris! I enjoyed my trip up there this past spring and meeting up with you guys. Found one of my 5 seated dimes for the year on that trip. My year is way down, too. In fact I have'nt found a silver half in 4 years. No barber or seated quarters this year either. These off-years happen though, they make you try harder the next year. Nice key date coins you have! Take care and Happy Holidays! Mike.