Return to the Large Cent Trifecta House

[DukeOBass]

I've been hunting the "Large Cent Trifecta" house for the past couple weekends. The finds are now few and far between. The CTX really cleans up! Once I've run in both direction over the same section of yard, I have gone back and nothing. I hunted a new area of the yard today and here are the pictures of the finds. I think I have about exhausted the site, except for the back yard. They told me I could detect out back around the buildings. Very tight and small back there. High grass too. I tried it the other day and it's loaded with new trash. I'll probably go back and try it again. The large areas of the yard that I have hunted will be revisited if I get a 17" coil. There are 3 more old houses on the same back road. 2 are lived in and I can't seem to catch the owners at home and one is empty. Extremely old properties with acres of farm fields all around! I have to locate the fields owner before fall. I could be very busy with farm fields for the first time. The residence of the house I'm detecting said the "old" homestead is out back in one of the field. If I can locate it, there are probably colonial coppers there.

Also got permission to hunt some farm fields a few miles away behind another extremely another old house. The owner is going to call me when the crops come off. There should be some colonial stuff in the fields for the age of the place. They just built an addition onto the house and put stones and mulch around several very old trees. The yard is pretty a mess right now and the guy wasn't keen on me detecting it.

Anyway, back to the "Large Cent Trifecta" yard hunt today. I managed to eek out one more silver for a total of 8 from that yard, a 3rd Buffalo Nickel, a nice old 4H Badge Pin and a nice Crotal Bell. I'd really like to know how old that 4H pin is.

[size=large]1917 Mercury[/size]
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[size=large]The 3rd Buffalo[/size]
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[size=large]Old 4H Badge Pin and Buttons[/size]
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[size=large]Small Crotal Bell[/size]
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[GKMan]

Nice finds Duke.. Good luck getting permission.

 

[Aaron]

Congrats on all the nice stuff!

That big military button w the heroic eagle, I found one earlier this year. I figured it is from a coat, either WWI or I? Probably II

Aaron

 

[G. E. Edwards]

Very nice Duke, I have the 17'' and it will pick up a BB and a half size target on the beach.

 

[INSAYN]

Those buttons are both US World War 1 Army coat buttons. Found on different parts of the coat.
I found one like your large one out in Chattanooga Tennessee this summer while visiting family.
Mine says Horstmann Philadelphia on the back, how about yours?

 

["Dr.Tones"]

Love that bell!

 

[DukeOBass]

n/t

 

[DukeOBass]

n/t

 

[sube]

Nice hunt Duke ,there's got to be more there . sube

 

[DukeOBass]

I'm sure I'll go back again sometime.

I wasn't going to go out this afternoon. Just going to relax, play through music I need to have down before our Friday evening, contemporary worship service at church next weekend. I've played through it all week and yesterday morning before my trip out detecting. Dropped the wife off for a meeting and instead of going home decided I'd take a drive to look at some other "potentials" outside a near by town I haven't hunt yet before going home and sitting around for the rest of the day. I had been doing some old map research on Friday evening and labeling where the roads are today and noted some spots to scout. My drive took me past a few older homes mixed in among newer places. Well, one of the older homes had a vegetable stand down by the road so I stopped. I bought a watermelon for $2 from the guy and then he took off in his truck while I was talking to his very young and spry 82 year old mother. I said that I wished he hadn't left so quickly, explained about my hobby and stated that I wanted to ask him about metal detecting the front yard of this Civil War era home. She told me it was her home, not his, he had no say and I could metal detect if I wanted to. She would just like to see what I found, I said sure. She said sit down and visit for a while so I spent about 15 or 20 minutes with her, until a customer came, she said she really liked visiting and I told her I would go get my detector and we would visit all afternoon. The son was back and forth all afternoon. He told me that he found a few Indian Heads and a 2 Cent coin along the way to the milk house when he was a boy. He buried the coins along with a Buffalo Nickel and other money he had when he was 7 years old up behind the vegetable garden. It's all overgrown right now but I gave him my name and telephone number telling him to give me a call when the weeds die off and I would try to help him recover it.

Got my stuff and got back to the house and the yard right up near it is filthy with change. I dug $4.41 in clad, an 1864 Indian Head penny, 1945 and 1955 wheaties and a 1948 Roosevelt dime. I barely touched the front yard. I couldn't swing without getting a coin signal. I stopped a short while ago and asked her if I could come back next weekend, she said I was welcome anytime that she would be at the stand and looked forward to seeing me again. Yippee! Another site! No pictures tonight. You guys know what Indian Heads, Wheaties and Roosevelt dimes look like... LOL!