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Old farm produces my oldest US coin to date 1845 LC

G

Goes4ever

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hunted with some buddies on sunday afternoon at a very old farm, they has both already hunted there, so I was there to clean up what they missed.....lol

anyhow I had several wheats, then got a great silver reading and was for sure it was a silver dime, but out popped the little sterling ring. I was glad to see that!......got some more wheats, a real nice 1906 indian cent. Neither of them had found any silver here, but I managed to get a rosie and also a 1944 merc. No signals were good here at all, I could NOT go by VDI numbers at all, I was hunting by sound only, if it sounded good I dug it. For instance the indian bounced from 18 to 44 to 32, to 16 so on....but it sounded sweet from all around.

I walked around a larger tree and got a strong quarter signal at 3" I was expecting a clad quarter but much to my surprise among all the tree roots pops out a 1845 large cent....now keep in mind this was my first ever large cent and I was up doing the happy dance, you would have thought I just won the lottery...lol

I was pretty excited to get all these coins out of a yard that had already been hunted.

Pays off often to dig those iffy, yet sweet sounding signals!

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Nice hunt
I love those indean head pennys. Can't wait till I get my first.
That large cent is great. You must have been stoked. Looks to be in super shape, nice bonus.

Jeff
 
Congrats on your first LC "G". I think the whole town heard me when I found my first LC, plus I was doing the dance, lol
 
Wow, that is a nice old coin. Congrats!!! I
 
Another great hunt. But I have to say..........You're killin me man! I've been hunting for nearly 38 years and have yet to find a large cent. I realize this part of the Country wasn't settled until after the small cents were introduced. But having found other denominations back into the 1830's, there has to be a LC somewhere around here. And I'm going to keep hunting until I find it! :detecting: Thanks for giving me hope! HH Randy
 
well this year has been a great one no doubt, the more I use the x-70 the more I learn. Makes me wonder how many nice coins I walked by and dismissed as trash because I did not "understand" what it was telling me.

I have hunted a lot of fields and always expected a LC to be found there, never in my wildest dreams did I expect to dig a large cent at a house that was still standing. I am still amazed. This area is not that old. I imagine the farm is 1880-1890 area.
 
You know..... I don't think any of us will ever find them all. Even in our own backyards! I almost hate to admit this....... but I built this house 20 years ago this month. One of the first things I did, right after I bought the lot, was to detect the property. Since the lot was the former site of an 1880's house, I did find quite a few nice old coins. I cleaned out a huge portion of the land and built quite an extensive test garden. I wander around the remaining portion of the property when I only have 30 - 40 minutes to hunt. And believe me when I say, I've wandered around this place with just about every detector and coil combination you can imagine. I hadn't found a single coin around my house for the past 2 years, until last week. Right against the exposed roots of an old black walnut tree I got a mixture of tones that I thought would probably be a few nails left over from the construction days. They covered an area about 18 inches square. But one of those tones in the middle just jumped out at me. It sounded more smooth and rounded at the edges, if you know what I mean. (and I am sure you do) Not being able to quite pinpoint it exactly, I decided to dig all the signals, in an effort to see just what was down there. I started in the middle and intended to work my way out, until all the targets were dug. The first thing out of the hole was a 1904 Barber dime. Now, I've walked over this at least 100 times. And as I said, I've used just about every detector/coil combination known to mankind. But for some reason, whether it be sweep speed, direction of the sweep or just plain luck, something caught my ear. I know some of you are using Patterns with excellent results. But I'm convinced if I hadn't been using a DD coil, tuned to all metal and listening to all the tones, that Barber would still be hiding under the walnut tree. Like you, I wonder how many coins I've walked over simply because I wasn't paying attention to everything the detector is capable of telling me. HH Randy
 
Excellent finds! I love those old coins when they first come out of the ground it reminds me how long they have been waiting to be found!
 
I've kept track of most of my good finds, over the years. After each hunt, I place the goodies in a zip lock bag with a note containing the date of the hunt, location, detector and coil used. At the end of each season, I place the silver coins in plastic coin holders and transfer the date, site and detector information. Other than the "key dates", I roll up the Shield, V and Buffalo nickels, put the IH cents in rolls, bag the Wheats by the decade they were minted and clean up the clad to "recycle". The jewelry goes into a special box I've made that keeps stuff from clanking together. Off the top of my head, I'd say my yard has yielded 6 or 8 IH cents, a dozen or so Wheats, a couple V nickels, 3 or 4 Barber Dimes, a couple Mercs, 1 Seated dime, several old tokens and at least 4 rings that I can recall. This probably sounds weird.......but I can look through my old coins (with the information written on the tag) and can usually remember digging most of them. Funny how recording the date/location and detector used can make it seem like it was just yesterday. HH Randy
 
Well,
Maybe he is refering to an old post. Answer would be the same though.

HH
Jeff
 
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