Old orchard yields 1828 matron head coronet cent in great shape, A barber too!

[MaineRelic]

Yes I hunted today !! the first pic is everything I dug through; clad junk ect... to get the keepers 4 2day !! A new site ! The owner told me it was an old apple orchard which used 2 have a house on the hill over looking it! You can not even find the foundation of the house now and only a few big old apple trees are left. I did find a small brick rubble pile just in the woods off the field, started finding household objects right in front of it just before the drop off down the hill to the orchard. I worked this flat area in front of the bricks for quite some time but did not pop out a coin, I did have a general pattern of human activity on the top of the hill so decided to limit my search pattern down the hill to the orchard to line up with the 20 yard swath of my signals on top of the hill. my third criss cross down the hill and i knew I had a copper signal! thought I had an indian by the sound of it. Even better!! 7 inches down in very sandy ,easy digging ground an 1828 matron head coronet large cent came up! Itcame out of the ground very clean!! best large cent I have dug . I think it was so becaue of the sand on the hill draining well and preserving the coin!! Kept my criss cross pattern up down the hill but no more coins ! the first apple tree i searched under produced the 1928 wheatie first with a white marble in the same hole. You have got 2 love kids!! 2 feet away I found the 1908 barber dime. The next apple tree I scored the 1939 wheatie. then came the Rain!! nooooooooo!!!! I did not want 2 leave even though I had been ther just over 3 hours. So I tried 2 push on !! BAD IDEA!! Tesoro got wet and started overloading!! I quickly took the battery out and started hoofing it 2 the truck! Tesoro still drying out !! I hope it will be ok!! MaineRelic.

 

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[Diggin in GA.]

Awsome finds. I hope the tesoro is ok.

 

[mainer]

Great finds Maine relic. Weather sure has been hard on the detecting the last couple days. Sounds like you may get a break this weekend. Hope you can get back there, hope the treasure finder is ok too. Best of luck to you.

Mainer

 

[Moonshadow]

Great story.......Awesome finds!

HH,
Moon

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Boy you werent kidding were you? Great shape indeed.
Chris

 

[hogge]

Wow! Nice LC. It really held up well. Congrats.........Hogge

 

[crazyjarhead]

Beautiful LC

 

[Deno]

Fantastic hunt in my book.

 

[allen]

congrats on those beautiful coins !!!
electric and water doesnt mix !!

 

[MaineRelic]

congrats on those beautiful coins !!!
electric and water doesnt mix !!

I could not agree more ! I played around with electrolisis on some of my copper coins last year but never really liked the way the coins looked when I was done !! I prefer the natural look of the coin. This large cent did not even touch water when I got home!! A bath in olive oil and Q-tip cleaning only!!

 

[Roger Mn.]

Congratulations on the nice large cent and barber.
The hills and slopes are my best places for finding coins.