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LTD gets me an IH and a large cent today

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osgood

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With permission went to that 1790 house I have made reference to on the relic forum. On the supposed plank road in the woods got the indian cent (1902) , too late in my mind to be related to any plank road activity. Then on the lawn near the house where Ive found a few old things but no old coins, except some wheatbacks, literally said to myself this is the last dig of the day. I almost walked away from some fluctuating ID numbers, I really thought was trash. The thing that compelled me to dig was when I pinpointed it, it really sounded like something cohesive, and condensed as opposed to spread all over. Two inches in the ground was a hug slab boulder (18" by24") like 3 inches thick. I levered it up ( two years ago I near ruptured a tendon in a finger flipping one of those type of boulders) and stuck my probe underneath and it went wild. Down about another 3 inches was the large cent 184? Im going to dig some more of those deeper signals now and search in all metal mode, I think clearing away the newer stuff nearer the surface last fall let me find this one. I was about to give up on this place as having been hunted out. The soil here kills those large cents so no pic posted. Good finds to you all, CO
 
Good finds. Am still looking for my first American LC. I have found 2 Canadian ones while hunting old spots up in Mn. If enough LTD users get out on some old sites, maybe between all of us we can come up with a tribe of Indians. Again, neat finds. HH jim tn
 
Nice going Curt! I remember you telling me about this plank road house and that you had your doubts.

I'm still looking for my first LC, which is almost nearly impossible to find in California (gold coins are MUCH more common then large cents are here).

Do you think the boulder is what made the LC sound funky, or because it's pretty corroded?

HH,
Brian
 
Brian, Its a shame you guys have to settle for that gold and not hit some large cents. Im convinced you will find some gold coins and do show em to us when you do. Re the LC sounds and ID it was probably both. You know when I first dug and hit the stone I thought man this is some hot rock. But the more I pinpointed the more I was convinced it wasnt the boulder. I did see some high 60's and some mid 70's , but the numbers where bouncing all over on that one, I think that big rock was distorting the read on the coin. The IH in the woods was much more consistant, like high 50's, low 60's. Ive been fortunate the past year or two to get permission for some good locales. Just secured some more good ones today. Any news on the Spanish site visit? CO
 
Just curious, but after you removed the boulder, did you scan the LC again before you dug it, and if so was the TID more consistent?

We're going next weekend to hit an early 1800's adobe that I think has huge potential. It looks great on google earth!

I'll post my finds, hopefully both of us bag some early US coins and reales from this site. We have a backup spot to hit after this one, the same place I found the large Phoenix button and Spanish ring. I'm going to use my LTD at the adobe site, but the second site I'm going to use my CZ70 with the 12.5" Sunray coil as the LTD is pretty noisy there, and I suspect it's due to EMI which the CZ70 mitigates pretty well, plus that large coil will help me cover some ground and potentially get some targets the LTD is missing. Interestingly at an old site near my parents house, I keep hitting it with both the CZ70 and the LTD and it's amazing that one will find deep targets the other misses, so it's a great 1-2 punch to try to get everything out of a site.

Sounds like you'll have your hands full for a while and I'm sure good thing lie ahead to be found with your LTD :thumbup:

HH,
Brian
 
Great report. Reminded me of the 1958 quarter I got from my yard that was underneath an old sidewalk paving stone. Sounded good but sounded bad too, until the 2 inch thick paver that was under two inches of dirt came up; then it sounded great. Though that was way before I had the LTD.

Congrats on your finds!

I hope to find a large cent someday. There are definite possibilities in some of the areas I hunt.
Cheers,
tvr
 
tvr, I have found several other large cents, I must tell you usually they make a huge auditory signal, again almost easy to dismiss as something like big iron or a beer can, although the numbers are usually quite good, in the mid 70's at least as I recall. They are real clangers! BOL CO
 
Brian, no I didnt rescan, when I had my pinpointer under there going crazy, and flipped the stone, I knew right where to go for it, I knew from the size and heft in hand, on my way to a plastic snow sled that held some water by the barn that I probably had a large cent or something out of the ordinary. By the way in my early days, I remember using spit for a quick clean, but that really could eat up a marginally corroded coin. Keep diggin, CO
 
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