My recent hunts. Cellar hole, loads of buttons, silver dollar, a Connecticut Copper.

[Elad]

I recently moved from NJ to MA. It only took me a couple of days to find get permission to hunt a huge farm right down the street from me. Ripe with old fields and woods filled with stone walls and cellar holes, this farm keeps producing for me!

The copper is a 1787 Connecticut Copper. (uncleaned). My first! *** Added picture of cleaned copper. Back is completely toast, so I didn't even bother photographing it.

My friend Mike who has hunted with me at the farm, managed to pull out a smoothie copper a while back, which may or may not be a KGII or perhaps even another Conn Copp.

I have found over 40 buttons (not all are pictured), most of them coming from the cellar hole deep in the woods behind the farm. Buttons are of British design. If I had to guess, the cellar hole homesite is early 1800's.

It took me a ton of work to put together these videos. Please enjoy!

 

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[ticm]

Well if you had no button collection before, you've got one now. Good diggings.

 

[Elad]

Well if you had no button collection before, you've got one now. Good diggings.

I actually have hundreds of old buttons from my 6 years of detecting. My collection grows!!

 

[leprechaun]

Great finds, I like the copper, you might want to try a hydrogen peroxide bath to clean the copper, pm me if you'd like to know how. Last week I found an 1801 capped bust penny and you could see the front,
but the back was toast. So I took some advise from someone on tnet and was able to clean the coin up a bit without disturbing the patina of the coin.Happy hunting, I'm from ma. also.

 

[granthansen]

Great finds! This New Jersian is hitting MA soon, so you've got me extra pumped up.

 

[Elad]

Great finds, I like the copper, you might want to try a hydrogen peroxide bath to clean the copper, pm me if you'd like to know how. Last week I found an 1801 capped bust penny and you could see the front,
but the back was toast. So I took some advise from someone on tnet and was able to clean the coin up a bit without disturbing the patina of the coin.Happy hunting, I'm from ma. also.

1801 capped bust... NICE. My earliest American penny is only 1810. I long for the day to see some flowing hair....

As far as the hyd peroxide. I have used this method... a TON. (successfully and unsuccessfully) It has the potential to make the coin worse, or better... it's a gamble really. I am really nervous to do anything with this copper as far as cleaning goes, but if I do, I will be sure to post some cleaned pictures of it.

 

[Elad]

Great finds! This New Jersian is hitting MA soon, so you've got me extra pumped up.

Thanks! Are you visiting or relocating?

 

[jerseyben]

Nice to see you are doing well in MA, Dale!

 

[hdmech71]

love the buttons

 

[granthansen]

Thanks! Are you visiting or relocating?

Just visiting for a 2-day detecting marathon. My first New England hunt!

 

[CoilFisher]

Love those finds!
Glad to see you made friends so quick up there.

 

[Elad]

Nice to see you are doing well in MA, Dale!

Thanks Ben. How's things going for you in NJ?

 

[Elad]

Just visiting for a 2-day detecting marathon. My first New England hunt!

Well, good luck to you sir! Remember, not every stone wall leads to a cellar hole... but some do.

 

[Elad]

love the buttons

Thanks! Buttons are dirt candy in my book.

 

[Elad]

Love those finds! Glad to see you made friends so quick up there.

Birds of a feather....

 

[oldsalty19]