EPIC Hunt finds rare GOLD Indian Princess & Rare SILVER Lady Liberty

[Cal_Cobra]

Saying I had an epic weekend would be an understatement! I loaded the latest Equinox firmware update to try the new FE2/0 iron program, and it did not disappoint!

I've posted about trip reports from this site several times over the years. It's always been a fun site IMO, you just never know what you'll dig, and it dates back to the early 1800's with history into the 20th century. It saw it's share of the Spanish, Mexicans, Emigrants, and Americans. It's getting difficult, lots of flat iron still left, but good finds have been thinning out, easy finds have been gone for years. TomCA won't even hunt there any more.

This trip turned out to be absolutely EPIC! Unbelievable really, because there have been trips where neither Tom nor I have dug a single coin at this site, so to dig five period coins in one trip was astounding.

Now if these were just five common 1800's coins, I would've left there an extremely happy camper, but two out of the five turned out to be astounding finds!

An 1865-S Seated Liberty Dime AND a 1856-S INDIAN PRINCESS $1 GOLD PIECE!!! I am absolutely over the moon from this hunt!

I got all the coins on video, if you have a chance, take a look:



EDIT: Added group shot:





Without further ado:

Right after she was dug and I just ran some bottled water over her in the field:





Rinsed off under the faucet back in my room (no rubbing!!!):







1865-S Seated Liberty Dime:

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All the Seated Liberty Dimes together:



1887 IHP:





Thanks for looking!!

GL&HH,
Cal <<<<<<<< THE ORIGINAL CAL

 

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[Cal_Cobra]

Awesome hunt with incredible rare coins! Did you swing over the same areas you had before, but the F2 program helped filter out the iron? Or just gave a cleaner more easily recognizable signal? I have the new software, just haven’t tried F2 yet. Congrats!!!

Been over the same areas with different machines, coils, etc., for years. I don't know that I can say the FE2 upgrade was the reason the site came back to life or not. In over ten years of detecting this site, I've never dug five coins one trip, heck I've come home with zero coins more then once. So I cannot really saw it was or was not the FE2. but I think I can safely say it certainly didn't hurt

 

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[Army of 1]

Nice swinging , Outstanding finds

 

[burlbark]

Great now I need to get an Equinox.... Banner hunt.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Nice swinging , Outstanding finds

Thanks for looking

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Great now I need to get an Equinox.... Banner hunt.

Nah, don't get an Equinox Thanks for looking

 

[CRUSADER]

FIXED!

Thanks for letting me know that, I uploaded the pics to Tnet.

No worries. Now I can see what a lovely coin it is - CONGRATS

 

[smallfoot]

The details are outstanding! Congrats!

 

[washingtonian]

Man that is freaking fantastic. Love hearing about people finding stuff at well hit sites. Seems like that’s mostly what we have left these days, huh? It’s hard to find documented, historical, untouched sites. Happens about once every year or two for me. Congrats again and good luck. I hope you get another.

 

[A2coins]

Boom baby. BANNER my turn next

 

[Cal_Cobra]

The details are outstanding! Congrats!

She is a beautiful specimen, I was impressed to see how good of condition she was, definitely was a loss that saw no circulation. Thanks for looking

 

[smokeythecat]

Outstanding!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Man that is freaking fantastic. Love hearing about people finding stuff at well hit sites. Seems like that’s mostly what we have left these days, huh? It’s hard to find documented, historical, untouched sites. Happens about once every year or two for me. Congrats again and good luck. I hope you get another.

Thanks washingtonian. Virgin sites are few and far between. Sure they exist, but most are on private property and it's not easy getting permission, but it happens. Seems like we find a good site every couple of years, but I enjoy hitting this particular site due to it's history and the finds that we've made over the years. I do not think it had every been detected when we first found it. I'll definitely try for another, I would not be the least bit surprised if there's another gold coin at that site.

GL&HH,
Cal

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Boom baby. BANNER my turn next

Thank you! Step on up and take a swing, there's more out there

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Outstanding!

Thanks Smokey, always been impressed by your finds as well

 

[JeffInMass]

There aren't enough adjectives to describe that hunt, but big-time Congrats to you! Still looking for my first gold coin after 30 years, so I can understand your reaction- enjoyed the video as well.

 

[Scrappy]

Beauty

 

[Cal_Cobra]

There aren't enough adjectives to describe that hunt, but big-time Congrats to you! Still looking for my first gold coin after 30 years, so I can understand your reaction- enjoyed the video as well.

Thank you! Keep at it, they're out there, being in Cape Cod you probably dig tons of colonial coins & relics, you'll probably dig Colonial gold one of these days

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Beauty

Thanks Scrappy, I'm continuously in awe of the early U.S. history you recover

 

[Louie D]

Epic Indeed!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Epic Indeed!

Thanks for looking