Hello All,
Just finally got a chance to post short hunts I had on Thursday and Friday of this past week. I was doing some prospecting at a 1700's house on Thursady's hunt and got
a strong 77 hit under a log that had fallen and was a few inches off the ground. When I dug up the Large Copper my first impressions was that it is very thin and looked well worn. The rest of the hunt I didn't find much at all. But it did make my hunch that there could be something good in this area very far from the original house a boost. I have been cleaning the coin and I have it now in Mineral Oil soaking to se if any more detail can come out. It's diameter is 27mm and it weighs 7.0 grams. Well since it was such nice weather I thought I do a little more scouting in this area and I was glad I did. It was slow going for about 45 minutes then it was like the flood gates opened up. I got a somewhat shaky mid 70's signal and I dug down about 7 inches and in the hole was a Large Copper staring back at me (You got to the love that sight it never gets old). Anyways when I got it out of the whole it did not seem like it was made of Copper at all and part of the edge of the coin had broken off. So into the pouch it went. Then I dug in this order the roundball, the big slug, the tombac button, the little itty bitty round piece, the flattened lead and finally the iron rod like piece, if anyone knows what that is or was used for would be great to know. At this point the bugs were dive bombing me and the sun was going to set. I cleaned things up over the next few days. As far as the Large Copper goes it didn't take a liking to a hot peroxide bath, so I have done no more to it. It was 8.7 grams and it's diameter is 28.5mm. Of course if anyone knows what it is for sure would be great to hear. Thanks for reading and looking.
Bubba65
Just finally got a chance to post short hunts I had on Thursday and Friday of this past week. I was doing some prospecting at a 1700's house on Thursady's hunt and got
a strong 77 hit under a log that had fallen and was a few inches off the ground. When I dug up the Large Copper my first impressions was that it is very thin and looked well worn. The rest of the hunt I didn't find much at all. But it did make my hunch that there could be something good in this area very far from the original house a boost. I have been cleaning the coin and I have it now in Mineral Oil soaking to se if any more detail can come out. It's diameter is 27mm and it weighs 7.0 grams. Well since it was such nice weather I thought I do a little more scouting in this area and I was glad I did. It was slow going for about 45 minutes then it was like the flood gates opened up. I got a somewhat shaky mid 70's signal and I dug down about 7 inches and in the hole was a Large Copper staring back at me (You got to the love that sight it never gets old). Anyways when I got it out of the whole it did not seem like it was made of Copper at all and part of the edge of the coin had broken off. So into the pouch it went. Then I dug in this order the roundball, the big slug, the tombac button, the little itty bitty round piece, the flattened lead and finally the iron rod like piece, if anyone knows what that is or was used for would be great to know. At this point the bugs were dive bombing me and the sun was going to set. I cleaned things up over the next few days. As far as the Large Copper goes it didn't take a liking to a hot peroxide bath, so I have done no more to it. It was 8.7 grams and it's diameter is 28.5mm. Of course if anyone knows what it is for sure would be great to hear. Thanks for reading and looking.
Bubba65
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