RanMan
Greenie
Being new to this, I had what I thought was a good "almost first" find. Within 20 minutes of searching near the driveway of a home built in 1850, I made these finds about 8" down within 2 feet of each other.
After finding that, I went back to the same spot and located one of these- NOTE, this photo (below) is NOT of the coin I found. It was corroded but had enough detail to where I could positively identify it. Mine even has the same date as this one. (1845)
This (below) is the one I found. It had a hole drilled in it as if someone had been wearing it on a chain. I asked around locally and was told that back then, it would have been a capital offense for someone to deface the coin with the image royalty on it.
In the same area I located a 32 caliber rim fire casing from what research revealed came from a "Saturday night special" at the turn of the century.
After finding that, I went back to the same spot and located one of these- NOTE, this photo (below) is NOT of the coin I found. It was corroded but had enough detail to where I could positively identify it. Mine even has the same date as this one. (1845)
This (below) is the one I found. It had a hole drilled in it as if someone had been wearing it on a chain. I asked around locally and was told that back then, it would have been a capital offense for someone to deface the coin with the image royalty on it.
In the same area I located a 32 caliber rim fire casing from what research revealed came from a "Saturday night special" at the turn of the century.
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