My Oldest metal detector finder!

SpencerK

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I don’t know how common it is to find 1800’s silver in the Los Angeles area but I managed to pull a 1852 3cent coin and a 1943 steel war penny off the same property. I almost didn’t know what I had found until I cleaned the coin off a bit.

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I finally found one of my bucket list coins funny thing is I thought I would have to be somewhere on the east coast to find one of these 3c pieces.

I love it when homework pays off!
 

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GaRebel1861

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I have always wanted to dig a trime but, so far they have eluded me. Nice find!
 

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Congratualtions on the Trime! :occasion14:
 

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SpencerK

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It’s funny because these were the only two coins I dug.
 

BLK HOLE

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Well done!!
 

Digger RJ

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Congrats on the Trime!!!! Nice!!!
 

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Congrats, i would love to find either.
 

xr7ator

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Wow. Steel pennies are a rare find since they rust to dust after some time in the ground. Amazing that it is so uncorroded. I have dug three steel pennies, I think. One, I'm sure of, was stuck in between two other wheats in a spill of 15 or so wheats. I found this in the 80's and realized that the two stuck together with a rusty disc in the middle was a steel penny. That penny has since broken into many many pieces...it's turning into dust. I keep it in a bottle cap. Initially, it broke into two pieces and has been deteriorating ever since.
The trime is a bucketlister for us all and I have yet to get one of those.
GRATS!
 

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SpencerK

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I found them on a 1920’s property with very little of any landscaping. The penny was actually in some hard pack dry dirt. I almost didn’t dig the signal. It actually came through with my iron discrimination on. The trime was found under a set of concrete stairs. I was picking it up through the concrete and decided to try to dig to it from the side. I got really lucky and found it in a couple of minutes with the pinpointer. It was literally just a crusty black disk. I didn’t even think it was anything until I got home and washed it off. I screamed WTF so loud my wife thought something was wrong hahaha.

Definatly the rarest coin I have found.

My question is, has anybody else found any trimes in the Los angels area?
 

Terry Soloman

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Sweet Silver! :occasion14::headbang::hello2:
 

DeepseekerADS

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Wow, I've found steel pennies, but they were always just an "impression" in the sod, but with the penny gone to steel heaven.

That must be pretty hospitable dirt you dug that out of!
 

wv1978

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Nice Finds!! The 3 cent silver is on top of my bucket list with the 3 cent nickel and 20 cent piece.
 

TomW244

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Sweet!!! Both are on my bucket list, and yours are both in great condition for having been dug from the ground! Excellent finds!
 

bravobob

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That's WAY WAY cool !
I also live in So.Cal and wondered how old of a U.S. coin i could find. 1852 pretty old considering California was part of Mexico until 1848 and didn't became a state in 1850. Americans in small numbers started arriving after the 1800's. And didn't really populate the state until the 1849 gold rush.
My oldest coins a 1898 Barber dime.
Congratulations on a super find.
And the steely's cool also !
 

sgtled3533

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Wow...never seen a steel 43 DUG looking like that...it should be a rusted little turd. Interesting....

And a trime?? Strange combo.
 

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SpencerK

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Both were dug in different spots on the yard. The trime being in very wet dirt and the steelie being in extremely hard dry dirt. And there was some surface rust. I couldn’t get all of the corrosion off without damaging the coin. The house was built in the 1920’s but there is evidence of other wooden structures that were once there, including what looked like a stone foundation which was also under the stairs where I found the Trime.

My buddy found a wheat penny spill on the property a year ago near where I found the steelie. I wonder if it’s from the same spill. Either way I was shocked about the steel war penny. I didn’t even think it was a war penny until I cleaned it off. Had a reddish brown hue similar to a corroded copper penny.

I even found some square nails and a horse shoe but the property owner wanted to keep that stuff. He didn’t care much for the coins.
 

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Trimes are a great coin. Wish I would dig one. Won't do it sitting in this chair. Congrats on the coins.:thumbsup:
 

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