Our First Flying Eagle Cent

[Professor of Engineering]

Hello Everyone,

Today my daughter and I went on a short woods hunt, since most of the areas we hunt were muddy and still frozen. We used the Whites V3i today (Gain=13, Sens=77 and a handful of other settings). The signals were few and far between, but we still had fun! The bulk of the finds were small metal junk and modern shotgun shells, but we did manage to find a cool relic and a first for us coin recovery. The first photo is an old house switch assembly, cool and makes sense since the area once had 8 early homes on the land. The second is my daughter holding the coin after she recovered it. Last photo shows a toasted 185x Flying Eagle Cent…our first ever!

Thank you for looking.

GL & HH

Doc

 

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[Ken C]

Congrats, very happy for you. I've only ever found one and it was in really rough shape.

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Very nice! I'm still looking for my first FE. Congrats !!

 

[relic nut]

That's a good hunt.
I've only found one also and it was in bad shape too

 

[DiggerKid2003]

Nice Flying Eagle. I've also only found one and you can barely see the eagle it's so crusty.

 

[Johncoho]

Congrats. That's one more than I have ever found.

 

[toasted]

Nice. Ive found around 6 in 3 years but none last year

 

[Silvermonkey]

Gotta love finding a FEC. Those don't come out of the ground that often. Sounds like you and your daughter had very enjoyable hunt!

 

[against the wind]

Congrats to you guys for getting out and a special congrats to your daughter on the Flying Eagle.

 

[Kurios1]

Congrats on your first FE. CENT. They are hard to find for certain. Well done.

 

[vferrari]

Congrats! Great find. Still on my list.

 

[diggingthe1]

Glad you had fun, those Eagles don’t fly around to often. That is great way to start off the year!

 

[Peyton Manning]

I wouldn't even know what it was
anyone know of a small pamphlet that shows all us coins?

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Nice FE Prof! Still looking for mine...would like to see a cleaned up pic if you've had a chance to pick at it a little..congrats on crossing that rare bird off your list...Ddf

 

[washingtonian]

Now that is cool, you don't see those every day. Nice find PoE!

 

[Calabash Digger]

congrats that's what it is all about!

 

[JeffInMass]

Sweet find- Congrats to you and your daughter Doc!

-- Jeff --

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Hello dirtdigginfool,

Not much I can do to the coin. I never find old coppers in good shape , just my luck...

Regards,

Doc

 

[Indiana Mark]

Congrats! Welcome to the FE club!!

 

[Relicific]

You must be flying high with a find like that.
Congrats