lrgoodger
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- May 2, 2023
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- 900
- Detector(s) used
- Whites 6000-D, Garrett GTA-1000, Minelab Sovereign, XP Deus I, Equinox 800, XP Deus II
I've switched from finding IHPs to Large cents! This is the first time in my life I have found 3 in one day.
I want to thank the Kenneth G Rare Coins employee in Mishawaka Indiana for telling me he had been doing 'better in the fields'. After today, I may not go back to standing old house yards at all. I looked up an old house near me on the 1860s map that I knew the owner of the land, called him and got permission to hunt the field. I had tried field hunting a couple of times in the past and gotten a couple of Indian heads, but nothing like today! I got to the area and went into the field. I started seeing pieces of broken glass and pottery almost immediately. I had parked only 30 yards short of the house site. There were no iron signals to speak of until I got 30 yards from the car, then I hit them. The first diggable signal I got was a heavy iron range guide (I think that's what it is), then the very next signal hit a solid 94 both ways on the Deus II. Cool, I thought, a quarter already. Should be an old one since this house has been gone since before clad. Out it came from 2 - 3 inches deep. It was an 1838 matron, my very first field largie. About 30 minutes later I got a signal that was not solid, but was hitting low 90s both ways. Out from about 8" deep came another matron, which after some work on the date turned out to be an 1833. As luck would have it, my brother had just pulled up and was getting out of the car when I saw the coin. "Largie number two," I yelled. "Really!", he responded. He went to work hoping to be lucky enough to get one himself. He did get half of a tennis ball sized crotal bell and a really nice #2 crotal. About an hour later, I hit another signal that was bouncing in the low 90s both ways and I called him over. I was using my 13x11 elliptical coil and he was using his 11" round coil, but he could hit the signal. He admitted it was deep and faint and said he had not hit anything that sounded that good. I dug it and it was a braided hair largie that we could not make out the date on. After I got it home, I worked on it a LOT, and it turned out to be an 1856, but you can't tell it in the photo.
Some really old guy drove by slow, looking at us and turned around and came back and stopped. I talked to him for a few minutes. Turned out he used to hunt, but said he was too old now. he said he hunted that yard when the house was still standing and got a half dime. Said it was the first one he ever saw and he didn't even know what it was at first. I didn't tell him I had found 3 largies in there. Even if he didn't hunt himself, he might tell some friends.
My brother would up getting a one piece button with London on the back and a couple of wheaties just before we quit. Needless to say, I will be doing some more field hunting of the old house sites from the 1860s map. What gets me is, where are the pennies from between the 1941 wheatie and the largies? There should be some Indians in there.
I want to thank the Kenneth G Rare Coins employee in Mishawaka Indiana for telling me he had been doing 'better in the fields'. After today, I may not go back to standing old house yards at all. I looked up an old house near me on the 1860s map that I knew the owner of the land, called him and got permission to hunt the field. I had tried field hunting a couple of times in the past and gotten a couple of Indian heads, but nothing like today! I got to the area and went into the field. I started seeing pieces of broken glass and pottery almost immediately. I had parked only 30 yards short of the house site. There were no iron signals to speak of until I got 30 yards from the car, then I hit them. The first diggable signal I got was a heavy iron range guide (I think that's what it is), then the very next signal hit a solid 94 both ways on the Deus II. Cool, I thought, a quarter already. Should be an old one since this house has been gone since before clad. Out it came from 2 - 3 inches deep. It was an 1838 matron, my very first field largie. About 30 minutes later I got a signal that was not solid, but was hitting low 90s both ways. Out from about 8" deep came another matron, which after some work on the date turned out to be an 1833. As luck would have it, my brother had just pulled up and was getting out of the car when I saw the coin. "Largie number two," I yelled. "Really!", he responded. He went to work hoping to be lucky enough to get one himself. He did get half of a tennis ball sized crotal bell and a really nice #2 crotal. About an hour later, I hit another signal that was bouncing in the low 90s both ways and I called him over. I was using my 13x11 elliptical coil and he was using his 11" round coil, but he could hit the signal. He admitted it was deep and faint and said he had not hit anything that sounded that good. I dug it and it was a braided hair largie that we could not make out the date on. After I got it home, I worked on it a LOT, and it turned out to be an 1856, but you can't tell it in the photo.
Some really old guy drove by slow, looking at us and turned around and came back and stopped. I talked to him for a few minutes. Turned out he used to hunt, but said he was too old now. he said he hunted that yard when the house was still standing and got a half dime. Said it was the first one he ever saw and he didn't even know what it was at first. I didn't tell him I had found 3 largies in there. Even if he didn't hunt himself, he might tell some friends.
My brother would up getting a one piece button with London on the back and a couple of wheaties just before we quit. Needless to say, I will be doing some more field hunting of the old house sites from the 1860s map. What gets me is, where are the pennies from between the 1941 wheatie and the largies? There should be some Indians in there.
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