Three hunts this week and a "tiny" first

[watercolor]

After gearing down from Soupie's wonderful hunt. . . and catching up
on all the work that I was behind in during this past week, I hunted a
house a block away that was scheduled for demolition. After contacting
the builder, he said have at it and it was a 1940's to 1950's wheaty-fest
with 3 Rosies, a Merc, and 75-cents of "play" money in the mix.



As the weekend approached, I found myself yearning for older goods so I did
a "warm-up" hunt with Kimsdad at a site we hit with Mayo & Lobatts last fall.
We had all hit that area pretty hard last year but the grass had been flattened
during the winter so it was now a lot easier to hit some of those deeper targets.

One of the first targets I recovered was a 23-cent pocket spill (2 Merc's & 3 wheats)
and then a few more early wheats to round out the hunt.



When the weekend arrived, Kimsdad & I hooked up with Lobatts, Skates, Winken,
and mayo to locate an old homestead that was platted in 1861. Between the 6 of us,
we started locating broken glass & and square nails and then Skates confirmed the
site with a wonderful 1840's LC. . . and with that recovery, everyone was pumped

After finding several flat buttons, pieces of pewter flatware, and part of a thimble,
I couldn't believe my ears (and eyes) when my detector screams "foil". . . I looked under the
coil and see a small disk on the ground. . . about the size of a dime. . . and when I picked it up,
I saw three, faint roman numerals and after looking at it more closely, I realized I had
found my FIRST three-center. . . an 1865

Thanks for looking!

[Lookn4Seated]

Woohoo! Thats an awesome three-center Mark! Way to go. Still on my wish list.

[Pocket Spill]

Awesome coinage and relics!

Its been a long time since I have seen a nickel 3 center posted. Fantastic and rare find

[filthyflyer39]

nice job on the first!

[kimsdad]

All great finds, Mark!!!

Amazing that the trickle was a surface find!

I saw you get your 2 center and now your three center. First trime buys lunch!

[ewcoinhunter]

Congrats, nice finds!

[winken]

Wow nice finds at that demolition site, might have to recheck my own yard now. That 3 center is definitely cool, glad i got to see it up close.

[scrounger d detector collector]

i forgot there was a 3 cent nickel

have seen several 3 cent silver

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

Awesome finds Mark your 3 center ROCKS.

[Gimmie The Loot]

Awesome bunch of goodies! Love the 3 cent piece!

[justdigging50]

Great job on getting permission to dig the demolition site. Congrats on the three cent piece, very nice

[soupie]

Well Mark I dont know what to say that has not been said already....
Dang Happy for U on the 3 cent..
Enjoyed the relics also...

Soup

[DPBOB]

Nice find !!!
Thats the first 3 center I have seen posted...

[treasurefiend]

WOW - That is AWESOME buddy!!!!! Thats on my wish list to, BIGTIME CONGRATS!!!!!

[Lowbatts]

That 3-center is in awesome good condition!

Was that water you spilled on your pants when you found it?

Nice collection you're building there!

[litefire56]

I surprised you didn't eyeball that 3 center first. Great find on that Mark and congrats
on a bunch more silver!

[MR Senior L4S]

NIce findings, congr !!! ----------- those 3 centers mostly come out more nicer, must be acrid soil ?

[etrac007]

great demo hunt and congrats on your three center!