Mirage
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So, I haven’t been doing much detecting but I have to get out at least once every week. In the spring I had gotten permission to hunt this 1820’s home. It is very close to where I live. We were told that a person had hunted the property before us and had found at least one Large Cent here.
Nate and I hunted the property 2 times in the spring. We found a few wheats, some relics and some clad. When we did hunt it our machines would be very noisy. The property is on a road that follows a ridge. The ridge was made by glacier deposits. The soil is very atypical of our area. Very sandy/rocky/mineralized. There is even a good portion of the property that is red dirt. Not good for detecting. During our second hunt there I started to get suspicious and I dug a little hole and buried a penny 3-4 inches deep and not one of my 4 detectors would pick it up! But if you want old, you have to hunt old sites.
So last Saturday after Nate’s race I told him I was going to hunt there and asked if he wanted to come. He thought it was a waste of time and tried to talk me into going somewhere else where he wanted to go. I told him to give me 45 minutes and I will be back and we will decide then. I started in the back of the property and worked very slow. I got some junk and then a good shallow signal. Dig the plug and it looks like a clad quarter.
Wipe some dirt and I see 1870 starting at me!
This got me excited. I searched the same area more and got two more coins that could not have been more than an inch deep. Two IH’s dated 1902 and 1894.
After cleaning up the stuff:
Picture taken from about where I found the stuff:
The 1870 Quarter was the first year issue with 900,000 minted. If it was US currency it would have been a seated quarter. That would have been very sweet.
So, no Large Cent but I was just as happy with the old silver.
Bob
Nate and I hunted the property 2 times in the spring. We found a few wheats, some relics and some clad. When we did hunt it our machines would be very noisy. The property is on a road that follows a ridge. The ridge was made by glacier deposits. The soil is very atypical of our area. Very sandy/rocky/mineralized. There is even a good portion of the property that is red dirt. Not good for detecting. During our second hunt there I started to get suspicious and I dug a little hole and buried a penny 3-4 inches deep and not one of my 4 detectors would pick it up! But if you want old, you have to hunt old sites.
So last Saturday after Nate’s race I told him I was going to hunt there and asked if he wanted to come. He thought it was a waste of time and tried to talk me into going somewhere else where he wanted to go. I told him to give me 45 minutes and I will be back and we will decide then. I started in the back of the property and worked very slow. I got some junk and then a good shallow signal. Dig the plug and it looks like a clad quarter.
Wipe some dirt and I see 1870 starting at me!
This got me excited. I searched the same area more and got two more coins that could not have been more than an inch deep. Two IH’s dated 1902 and 1894.
After cleaning up the stuff:
Picture taken from about where I found the stuff:
The 1870 Quarter was the first year issue with 900,000 minted. If it was US currency it would have been a seated quarter. That would have been very sweet.
So, no Large Cent but I was just as happy with the old silver.
Bob
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