I've looked long and hard for this coin:clapping:

[Keith Southern]

May not look like much but I'll take it! Its a 1868 2 cent piece.This one has eluded me for a quarter of a century.Found it today in an old house site that I've pulled a few seated dimes out of.I pretty much hit it with every detector I have came across. It was laying about 7-8 inches deep in a bed of square nails.The 1236 x-2 found it pretty easy with the 5 inch coil. silencer off iron disc locked in.

Ive run a lot of detectors in there. All the new high performance machines. The 1236 still reigns champion in the iron no matter what you here.Gotta love old school hunting. the older machines gives you little nuances the newer digital machine just cant obtain.

Just thought I would share with you in my excitement in obtaining another goal of mine.Got to get her soaking in some olive oil I'll post her again in a few weeks and see what she turns out like.

Keith Southern

 

[Jackpine Savage]

that the 1236X2 is a great little iron hunter. Congrats on the 2 center Keith! Is it coincidental that the one and only 2 cent I have found was also with a 1236??

HH Tom

 

[Bill Ladd]

It is fun it hit coin goals.....
I'm working on a complete set of indian heads, but of course I may never see that 1877

 

[Keith Southern]

to accomplish.I still need any gold coin! and a 20 center and 1/2 cent.My area (North Georgia) is extremely hard to find early coins.The oldest coin I've found in My neck of the woods is a 1776 2 Reale she's pretty slick from use . I"m sure a Civil War soldier dropped it.If that coin could talk i bet it could tell some tales!Most all the coins around here start around the 1840's if we get luck no colonial hardly at all.

Thanks for the reply good luck on the Indians again.

Keith Southern

 

[Keith Southern]

The 1236 has the uncanny ability to sniff out targets in dense iron like no other I've used. Some come close but the 1236 can always eek out a couple more finds after you have wrote the site off.

That's a nice 2 center you have for sure there Tom.You area must be like mine that's been a very elusive coin for me.

Bad news is I've heard there on there way out the door.I think the 1270 is staying in the line up for now but the the others are history.I'm going to go ahead and get me one more 1236 to put up for hard Times.Ha-Ha.

Any ideas on who designed the 1236? I've used one since they came out and never knew who designed it.


Thanks for the reply and thanks for sharing your 2-cents also Ha-Ha.

Keith Southern

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Keith,nice job great coin.

 

[tink]

Great find Keith and thanks for the info on the 1236. Us newer guys are always watching for tips and machines you more experience guys pass along. Guess I might keep my eyes open for a 1236 now. Have some really nice old places to hunt with a ton of nails and construction materials around from remodeling. Sounds like a good machine to use at these sites. Hows the depth on this machine.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

My area doesn't hold many older coins either Keith, anything pre Civil War is old here. I would dearly like to find a US half dime although I have found 2 Canadian "fish scale" half dimes they were made for a much longer period of time.

I don't know who designed the 1236. Dave told me he was not with Fisher when it came out and he did not know either. After using the 1236 a couple years I tried out a 1235 for a short time and although a good machine in it's own right it did not do it for me. Something was missing that I could not put my finger on.

I still have a 5" 1200 coil laying around just in case I pick up another 1236X2.

Tom