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Living in the Midwest doesn't give me the opportunity to find colonial coins as my area of Iowa wasn't populated until 1850 or there abouts. Well after researching a couple of years ago I found one of the original settlements for my area. The area was first settled in 1848 and being near the Missouri River they were flooded out in 1851. Over the years the area was again inhabited , as it was on the underground railroad. A church was built the in the late1850's, but was burned in the early 1860's by Copperhead trying to prevent the running of Slaves. A couple years ago was my first attempt to find this spot which has been a soy bean - corn field for many years. I have logged close to 40 hours in this field and came up with a few coins over the past couple of years. Due to crops in the field my hunting is limited to early Spring or late Fall. I find many pieces of small copper and brass pieces of scrap but on my first hunt of the area in 2007 I found a beautiful 1841 Seated dime which at that time was my oldest coin at that time. I went back about a week late and dug an 1835 Bust Half time which is my avatar. Over the past two years I have spent another 20 hours searching and found an 1864 2 cent piece and 4 early IH's and a bunch of junk copper and old shell casings. Finally yesterday I thought I would give another shot and am glad I did. After only being in the field about a half hour I got my oldest coin to date. I only wish it would have been an American coin, but still a cool find. I dug a 1812, 2 Skilling coin from Denmark. I have know idea how or why it was there but got me pretty excited. It is about the size of a dime and appears to be made of copper. Not in real good condition but my oldest non the less.
Thanks for reading.
Thanks for reading.
