My oldest coin to date!

[Geologyhound]

I know it may not be much by some standards, but 1882 beats my oldest coin by about two years. So I am happy to have it! Now to supplant it with something even older…

Found it at an old school house about 5 inches down along the edge of a bowl shaped depression from an old tree. It was a little jumpy on modified fast (Deus 2), but kept giving me a fairly consistent zinc penny range signal.

Also, the neighbor lady said she spoke with prior detectorists. So the site has been cherry picked.

 

[still looking 52]

That's definitely old in my book, 141 years old is old.
Looks like a seated dime, is that correct?

 

[still looking 52]

Forget the dime thought, after looking at the back side I can see it's a cent.

 

[Ronstar]

Someone left at least one cherry……

 

[Odanscoils]

Very nice find. Yup there never hunted out.

 

[T-DUB]

I know it may not be much by some standards, but 1882 beats my oldest coin by about two years. So I am happy to have it! Now to supplant it with something even older…

Found it at an old school house about 5 inches down along the edge of a bowl shaped depression from an old tree. It was a little jumpy on modified fast (Deus 2), but kept giving me a fairly consistent zinc penny range signal.

Also, the neighbor lady said she spoke with prior detectorists. So the site has been cherry picked.

Congrats, keep at it, and you will get a coin that is older than that some day. My oldest is a 1838 Seated half-dime. Been stuck on that for quite a few years. A lot of it depends on location in my opinion. Where I am from for example, the history doesn’t go back as far as it does say on the east coast. So for the most part I may not get the opportunity to dig a coin earlier than that because of the history “timeline”. Yet in this hobby ya never know.