kimsdad
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- Apr 17, 2008
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- E-trac & Bounty Hunter Land Star
Yesterday, DP Bob, Watercolor and I hit a private lot in the full sun and then headed into the steamy mosquito and tick infested woods. No sweet finds for all the trouble, (although I did get a coveted 1975 rabies tag!) so I declared Friday my day to get some flowers planted and rest. That lasted until around 9:00 this morning. 
With it being partly sunny and cooler out, I was getting the itch.
I called Mark and asked him what he was doing - "just relaxing" he said. So I said, "I was thinking of going out for a couple hours." "Like in about 20 minutes?" he asked. The last minute hunt was on!
I wanted to try the E-Trac again and hit an open area in one of the groves using some suggestions I got from McEtrac. (Thanks, Dave!)
I must have hit a spot that hasn't been hunted too hard, because I started pulling out wheats right away. After a couple of those, I dug a '35 Merc that I have to say is the first Merc I've ever seen that I don't think is gorgeous. It look like she spent some years being ground into a stone driveway before she was given up for dead and buried.![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
A little while later, I got a good deep signal and thought I had a quarter. About 8 inches down, I finally popped out a "smooth" disc and immediately thought Hmmm..large cent - yeah, right! I've dug my share of blanks and punchouts, and I thought that's probably what this is. I sat down on my digging pad and using a little water, started to clean it off. The back looked smooth and the front had a few details that were hard to make out. There wasn't any corrosion evident on it. I began to wonder if maybe it really was a large cent. Mark saw me walking toward him with something in my hand, so he took off his phones and said, "What did you find?" I half jokingly said "A large cent." He looked at it and looked at it some more. He agreed that it probably was an LC.
When I got home, I cleaned it up with some dish soap and a soft toothbrush, then broke out the magnifier and a flashlight for oblique light. Then Mrs. Kimsdad got ahold of it and wouldn't let go!!! She doesn't have an interest in detecting at all, but she loves to see my finds. This time I almost couldn't get it away from her. I called up all the pics of the old LC's on the Internet, and after I finally got it back from her, through the process of elimination declared it a Classic Head Large Cent. There's no date visible on mine, but they were only minted from 1808-1814!!!
This turned out to be my oldest coin ever and my first LC! Now I know how you felt when you found yours, Kermit! I've been pumped all day!!! When I hold this coin and think that it could be 200 years old, I'm amazed. It would be nicer if it had more detail, but I'm still happy with it as it is!
I inserted a couple of pics into the photo of the one I found - one in relatively good shape and one that's worn, but not as bad as the one I found. Looking at those pics and comparing is how I ID'd it.
Thanks for checking it out and HH this weekend!!!
Thanks Kimmie!
Neil
With it being partly sunny and cooler out, I was getting the itch.I called Mark and asked him what he was doing - "just relaxing" he said. So I said, "I was thinking of going out for a couple hours." "Like in about 20 minutes?" he asked. The last minute hunt was on!
I wanted to try the E-Trac again and hit an open area in one of the groves using some suggestions I got from McEtrac. (Thanks, Dave!)I must have hit a spot that hasn't been hunted too hard, because I started pulling out wheats right away. After a couple of those, I dug a '35 Merc that I have to say is the first Merc I've ever seen that I don't think is gorgeous. It look like she spent some years being ground into a stone driveway before she was given up for dead and buried.
A little while later, I got a good deep signal and thought I had a quarter. About 8 inches down, I finally popped out a "smooth" disc and immediately thought Hmmm..large cent - yeah, right! I've dug my share of blanks and punchouts, and I thought that's probably what this is. I sat down on my digging pad and using a little water, started to clean it off. The back looked smooth and the front had a few details that were hard to make out. There wasn't any corrosion evident on it. I began to wonder if maybe it really was a large cent. Mark saw me walking toward him with something in my hand, so he took off his phones and said, "What did you find?" I half jokingly said "A large cent." He looked at it and looked at it some more. He agreed that it probably was an LC.
When I got home, I cleaned it up with some dish soap and a soft toothbrush, then broke out the magnifier and a flashlight for oblique light. Then Mrs. Kimsdad got ahold of it and wouldn't let go!!! She doesn't have an interest in detecting at all, but she loves to see my finds. This time I almost couldn't get it away from her. I called up all the pics of the old LC's on the Internet, and after I finally got it back from her, through the process of elimination declared it a Classic Head Large Cent. There's no date visible on mine, but they were only minted from 1808-1814!!!
This turned out to be my oldest coin ever and my first LC! Now I know how you felt when you found yours, Kermit! I've been pumped all day!!! When I hold this coin and think that it could be 200 years old, I'm amazed. It would be nicer if it had more detail, but I'm still happy with it as it is!
I inserted a couple of pics into the photo of the one I found - one in relatively good shape and one that's worn, but not as bad as the one I found. Looking at those pics and comparing is how I ID'd it.
Thanks for checking it out and HH this weekend!!!
Thanks Kimmie!
Neil
and "Yeah Ba-Bee" is an 
Congrats again!!
Nice find my friend.
