flinthunter
Well-known member
I just love field hunting old log cabin and house sites. You never know what might come out of the ground. A few weeks ago I got a 6x8 SEF coil and have been trying it out for the last couple weeks. This coil is fantastic in iron infested ground. Today I went back to a log cabin site that I have hunted at least a dozen times and only found a 1940's nickel and a cracker jack coin. Always before I had used the stock coil that came with the detector but today I was using the little 6x8 coil. It wasn't long before I got a decent signal and decided to dig the target. Out pops an indian cent, my third one this month. Pretty soon I get another good signal and dig up a 1920 lincoln cent. Its not much longer and I get a good deep high tone that sounds like silver. Thinking to myself that I just can't get that lucky today I dig it up. Out pops this large copper disk. Its worn almost smooth but as I wipe the dirt away I can see that there is writing on it. Now I'm excited, its my first large cent. I'm only a mile from home so I head back to clean my finds and see just what I've got. Something about the large cent just doesn't look right as I am cleaning it, there is a seated lady on the front of it. It doesn't take long to realize that it is a Canadian half cent token from 1812. Not the large cent that I wanted so badly but I'm happy with it. Its not everyday that I find a 200 year old coin. Now I will give it a peroxide bath and see if it will help bring out some detail. Well there is about an hours worth of daylight left so I think I will go back and hunt that site some more.
