Missed Group Hunt But Found My Oldest Coin To Date!!

[nhagan]

Well, I was a bit bummed that my father and I had to miss out on todays group hunt. Got home this afternoon and threw up the christmas tree with the wifey and daugher... Figured I would run around in the front yard for a bit (which as produced a few goodies in the past). This time I wanted to try out TTF again on the E-Trac. I dug a couple of signals then went down around the area I found the aerial gunner sterling pin at (hoping to find the rest of the wings). I had a nice high tone each direction (41-42 conductivity). I dug a plug and saw what I thought would be my first large cent. So I ran from the front yard into the house to grab my camera (I got pretty excited, wife thought I dug into a line I shouldn't have). I grabbed my video cam and headed back out. I am not 100% sure on what it was ringing up in TTF as I turned off the etrac to check it out and get the cam. If I recall it was 23-42. Then again my lawn is null most of the time. So I took Jon's (L4S) motivation and ran TTF as slow as I could. It paid off tonight. I am awful with cleaning copper so I figured I would quit while I was ahead (unless anyone has any better ideas). I ran it under water with a q-tip for awhile. Then boiled a bit of hydrogen-peroxide in the microwave for about 45 seconds dropped it in for maybe 2 seconds and then rinsed it under water. What you see is where the coin is as of now (I will probably leave it here as it is my oldest find to date and I am happy with the way it looks now. Here is a video pics below. Glad you all had a great time on the group hunt. My father and I were bummed we could not make it but look forward to the next get-to-gether as we will be there for sure!









Camera Phone HDR Shots




enjoy your weekends! good luck out there!
Neil

[metman]

Well, very nice find. Your yard really does have some history. Who knows what you are going to find next. It is amazing that you can go over an area you think you already hunted and still find more good stuff. Congrats

Yes, I am kinda bummed we didn't get in on the group hunt too. I hope everyone who made the hunt had a good time . . . looking forward to seeing the finds.

[DPBOB]

Welcome to the L C club........

No place is hunted out... you will find more in the future. Every year go over the areas...

[etrac007]

CONGRATS ON THE LC! group hunt at your house next weekend right ! just kiddin"

[nhagan]

CONGRATS ON THE LC! group hunt at your house next weekend right ! just kiddin"

haha with you teaching me your skills bring it on down!
glad to have my first lc. It is just something different holding a large chunk of coin in your hand that was around when good ol' honest abe was around/in town. glad you guys had a good day for a group hunt (although im really bummed we missed out on a woods hunt as I have been wanting to hit up the timber for awhile now). Oh well maybe next time!

Yard definitely has some history. I found this within ten feet of where the original 'main-drag' would have gone through back in the wagon days...

neil

[nhagan]

Here are the other two high tones I dug tonight (just to keep track of when I dug what)...
One is kind of interesting it is really heavy (lead?) maybe a shotgun load I dunno the two rings around the outside are too uniform... The other piece is of course a spoon.. I have found more spoons and buckles around here (I should really throw together a shadow box of everything from this yard so far)....

Straight out of the ground...


rinsed up a bit...





Neil

[Lookn4Seated]

COngrats on a fantastic LC! Glad you decided to run the TTF. I know you'll probably have nightmares because of it tonight though, but well worth it. I can't go for more than an hour running ttf before going crazy, hahaha. Now you'll be thinking where else you can run it and what you've missed.

congrats once again.

L4S

[p2c]

CONGRATS ON THE LC! group hunt at your house next weekend right ! just kiddin"

haha with you teaching me your skills bring it on down!

The cost would be pretty high for a 007 learning. You'd be skilled, but your yard would be emptied before you could use those skills.

[p2c]

We did miss you, but hey, A Large Cent verses a long drive for maybe some ticks, a few weeks and a merc ... I'd stick with the LC. Congrats on joining the LC club, they are quite fun to bring up, especially say somewhere like ILL that does not have as many as the Eastern folk do.

Group hunt was really quite fun though...

[Lowbatts]

Very nice hunt for sure. Yeah, you got the goodies right at home!

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

Grats to you on pullin out a LC, looks to be in great condition.

[nhagan]

COngrats on a fantastic LC! Glad you decided to run the TTF. I know you'll probably have nightmares because of it tonight though, but well worth it. I can't go for more than an hour running ttf before going crazy, hahaha. Now you'll be thinking where else you can run it and what you've missed.

congrats once again.

L4S

You are not kidding I had a headache after about 30 minutes with the headphones on... I know a few other places this would have been perfect at..

Neil

[Pocket Spill]

Congratulations on your first large cent!!! What a great yard! Great coins you have pulled out of there. Convince your wife to plant a huge garden in the front yard and get out the rototiller!

[nhagan]

Congratulations on your first large cent!!! What a great yard! Great coins you have pulled out of there. Convince your wife to plant a huge garden in the front yard and get out the rototiller!

shoot she is no green thumb! It would just be another project for me to take care of .. we did however put a pool in the backyard last year and while excavation found a piece of shotgun dated 1852 as well as a couple marbles. I saw what appeared to be a set of old handcuffs while they were doing the digging but was in the line of the scoop and I was not quick enough to get in there and get it... Running TTF has brought new hope to the hunting as it is loaded with large chunks of iron and nails...

neil