TominCincy
Jr. Member
- Dec 26, 2008
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- Detector(s) used
- Whites XLT, Whites V3, Shadow X5, Explorer SE, Garret Infinium
Well back in 2001 when I bought my first metal detector, a Whites XLT. I knew nothing about this wonderful hobby. I read the manual and went out hunting for the big treasures the manual said I will find. I practiced in my yard for awhile, and found some clad. Well this got me excited. But I wanted to find some old coins. In the mean time I rand across a metal detecting club in my area, and went to some meetings. They told me about something called research. Well I had moved to a new house north of Cincinnati Ohio, and everyday I went to work I passed this old abandoned farm, with nice old house, a huge barn, and a 2 seated privy. I got permission to hunt and for three months I hunted this site and only found some clad. This was because of my inexperience with the XLT metal detector. Well one day in late March I was hunting after work I got a nice signal about 6 inches down, kind of under some flat stones they used to put down to walk on. I dug, and dug, and was not finding anything. I though this might be one of these signals like hot rocks they told me about in one of my metal detecting meetings. Off to the side of the hole I saw something green. I picked it up and it had a picture of an Indian on it, and said one cent on the back. The dated was 1877 and I was excited. This was my first old coin I had found after hunting for 4 months. I was dancing around screaming, and was glad no one was around. I had to share this find, so I ran home right away and showed this to my wife. She was excited also. I ran some water over it to clean it up some. It looked great, unlike some of the coins I found in the ground, except it was green. I got on the forum and showed them a pic of the coin and asked what is this. They wrote back and said do not touch the coin it is a valuable coin put it in a coin holder. I took the coin to my club meeting and they all were excited about the fact that this was my first old coin find and it was a rare date and valuable coin. They said a lot of people do not find nice coins like this in there life time, much less being my firs old find.
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That is an awesome coin! To this day, I still have not been able to find an Indian Head penny. Congratulations! 
I only find wheats and 1 or 2 silver coins along the way. Love the Indian head! Hope to see you more often on this forum!!! 
