old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

dwayne sueno

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old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

every time i'm out for a walk with a detector, and get skunked, i swing by my favorite old house site, and try to pull out something non-ferrous before calling it a day. got this button earlier in the week with the SE w/ pro coil. read like a screw cap, but i dig everything at this site. haven't pulled a coin younger than 1809 from this site, so it may be safe to assume that this button is referring to GW himself. no backmark...

three of the large cents are from my general ramblings this week with detector in hand.

the shield nickel and the draped bust large cent were pleasant surprises. there's an old, iron-infested road grade that i've pounded with the dfx and the se w/ pro coil up to the point that there are no longer any non-ferrous signals to be found. last night i put a 5" coil on the se, and worked a 10'x40' section really slow for over an hour. this site has produced three or four fatty IH's, and nothing else, so i dig anything that even hints that it's non-ferrous. only got two decent signals amidst the iron. the first was the nickel, and it rang and registered on the cross-hairs as a nickel, but was only an inch deep, so i was thinking i was gonna be pulling up a recent jefferson. imagine my surprise to see a shield nickel emerge from the dirt. 1869, still in the grass roots, and on a well-drained hill, so very nicely preserved. sweet! half an hour later, and ten feet away, i got another non-ferrous signal that sounded more like aluminum slaw or deep lead, and was astounded to to see a large copper disc pop up out of the hole, only three inches deep. most LC's come out of the ground here in upstate NY pretty toasty, but this one is one of the least-porrous i've seen. figures that it would be totally worn out, heh heh. i've dug 50-or-so large cents in the last year-and-a-half, some pushing a foot in depth, and have been fairly certain of what i was digging every time. this is the first that caught me off-guard. strange what iron and a different coil will do...
 

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zaxfire69

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

I'm looking it up right now for ya. I believe you hit paydirt.
 

zaxfire69

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

Congratulations...Number 13 ....Small wreath. Banner button my friend. Awesome.. Might be 14 on the list. I can't tell if it has a star or not. Here see for yourself...

http://moscow2.pld.com/kirk/CobbGW/scratchplate.jpg

Look at button 13 or 14 on that link.
 

pjroo33

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

George Washington or John Adams I believe. Great find!!! I hope someone can jump in with exact info. BANNER in my opinion!!!
 

Marchas45

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

Man O' Man Dwayne you got some great finds there especially the button awesome!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 

panthr

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

dwayne sueno said:
every time i'm out for a walk with a detector, and get skunked, i swing by my favorite old house site, and try to pull out something non-ferrous before calling it a day. got this button earlier in the week with the SE w/ pro coil. read like a screw cap, but i dig everything at this site. haven't pulled a coin younger than 1809 from this site, so it may be safe to assume that this button is referring to GW himself. no backmark...

Its entirely possible. It sounds very similar to slogans used by the British for their king/queen. In fact some people wanted to refer to the president as "His Magesty" But it was Washington himself (always the modest one) who said that he wanted to be referred to as simply "Mr. President"
 

PBK

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

Congrats R&S.jpg
 

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zaxfire69

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

$5000 or $14000 dollar button. Congratulations on that find. You got my heart beatin fast here. Man. Awesome. :thumbsup:
 

West Jersey Detecting

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

Congrats! You have found a George Washington inaugural button, with some of the Gilt still intact!!! Very high on every ones list!!!!

Banner find for sure!

Neil
 

jgas

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

OMG....Can you say BANNER??? I think you can. That is one sweet find. Congrats big time :thumbsup: Get that baby preserved properly and drooool all day over it.... :thumbsup: :thumbsup: jgas
 

tymcmurray

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Jul 14, 2007
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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

Spectacular find!!! Great hunt.
I just found my first shield nickel this weekend (1869 too).
Congratulations!
Definitely BANNER!!
 

P.B. and Dylan

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

That's fantastic...what a find.
Congratulations!
 

gemee

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

dwayne sueno is going to soil himself when he comes back here and finds how SWEET his discovery was. BANNER!!!
 

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dwayne sueno

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

um, gosh guys, i was pretty excited, but i had no idea...
thanks for the research, zaxfire and others!
i believe i have "soiled" myself, in more ways than one!
 

IronSpike

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

Yeah that's a nice one :icon_king:

Definitely not skunked this hunt :thumbsup:

Banner!!!!
 

John987

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

UNBELIEVEABLE FINDS!!
Super Congrats on that button!
You must have some heck of a spot!
Happy Hunting!!

John
 

coltdavis

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Re: old "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" button, could it be...

CONGRATS on an amazing find! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: what a piece of history. Just awesome! congrats again. best of luck and HH
 

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