~1857 Flying Eagle from the cornfield~

[Goes4ever]

Today I met up with Kyle (Nooberz) for some field hunting, started off with 22 degrees and frozen hard ground! We literally had to chip away at the dirt with our lesche's shovel were almost worthless to start. Finally it slowly warmed up and the sun came out about 11am. The first field I got 2 flat button and that was it, basically no conductive signals at all. On to the second field site where I got the 2 piece button, looks like it has a dog head on it, can anyone tell me anything from the backmark? I only got that button and a couple pieces of scrap, another signal-less field. Kyle nabbed a large copper there and that was the only coin found in that field.


We then went to the 3rd field, by now it was around 30 degrees and the sun was starting to warm us up, much appreciated. I got a solid 12-24 screaming at me, and less than a 1/2 inch deep..... I found a coin, I thought I had a fatty indian when I saw the one cent on the back, but when I flipped it over and saw the eagle and the date I knew I had a flying eagle! This is my 5th flying eagle cent now in 6 yrs of detecting, made my day, as this turned out being the ONLY coin I found! Kyle got another largie at this site and couple indians, just wasn't my day for coins, so sure glad the only one I dug was a GOOD one!

 

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[dig kzoo]

Great finds love the flying eagle

 

[pjduff]

Awesome flying eagle cent !!!!

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[Jyverb64]

Great flying eagle and the dog button is cool

 

[woody_g]

still looking for my first flying eagle definitely near the top of my wish list.love the button? with the dog and bird in his mouth.great bunch of finds.

 

[Goes4ever]

still looking for my first flying eagle definitely near the top of my wish list.love the button? with the dog and bird in his mouth.great bunch of finds.

you can see a bird in his mouth? I can't make that out! I will take your word on that one!

 

[fishstick]

Great FLYER there GFE!!! I wish my two looked that good.. CONGRATS.. HH

 

[texjim]

good job..

 

[hdmech71]

Wow, nice finds. Love that flying eagle.

 

[flyinryan2]

Awesome Flying Eagle!!!!

 

[terpfan]

Not much corrosion on that one, nice find!

 

[poorman15]

Nice find. I have yet to find anything nearly that old. Today I found a 1940 Quarter and and a 44 Mercury dime along with a ton of clad. An Indian was on my wanted to find list and now so is this. I think I am addicted to Metal detecting.

 

[John Boy]

Awesome flying eagle and buttons.congrats.

 

[granthansen]

Congrats on the FE!

 

[vaquero44]

Hey nice find yours is alot better than mine i found last fall, congrats!

 

[WHADIFIND]

Wonderful saves and I love the Flying Eagle. Ya know, I've seen quite a few of these posted and it really brings home just how lucky I am. I've found 4 or 5 of these myself but none of the ones I found after the first one can hold a candle to it's condition. Just about all the ones I've seen on here have just brought home how fortunate I've been!

Yours is as close to mine as it comes. I used mine for an avatar for a while.

Thanks for sharing.
HH!

 

[Goes4ever]

Wonderful saves and I love the Flying Eagle. Ya know, I've seen quite a few of these posted and it really brings home just how lucky I am. I've found 4 or 5 of these myself but none of the ones I found after the first one can hold a candle to it's condition. Just about all the ones I've seen on here have just brought home how fortunate I've been!

Yours is as close to mine as it comes. I used mine for an avatar for a while.

Thanks for sharing.
HH!

out of the 5 I have dug, 2 of them are in even better shape than this one!

 

[WHADIFIND]

out of the 5 I have dug, 2 of them are in even better shape than this one!

Oh! Don't get me wrong. I've also seen many exceptional ones, far better than mine! I didn't mean to appear I was competing. What I meant was that I found this in my first year. Waaaaaaay back when. Back then, I didn't realize that coins didn't just come out of the ground looking like this very often. I've learned over the years just how special this find was, that's all. Every time I see one now it reminds me.



HH!

 

[Goes4ever]

Oh! Don't get me wrong. I've also seen many exceptional ones, far better than mine! I didn't mean to appear I was competing. What I meant was that I found this in my first year. Waaaaaaay back when. Back then, I didn't realize that coins didn't just come out of the ground looking like this very often. I've learned over the years just how special this find was, that's all. Every time I see one now it reminds me.

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HH!

wow that is a sweet one! here is one I dug in 2011....has some awesome details and has a odd light green patina...I say odd because most all copper nickel indians and flying eagles normally come out of the ground red, like yours