1864 2 Center !! >> Been waiting 4 years for this moment :-)

[FooserPaul]

Hello all!
I was in Boston for work today and stopped at a green on the way back that we have hammered !! It is not very big... City block one way and about 1/2 block the other...

I was pretty wet from the knees down in short order... Stock Pro coil... TTF (Two Toen Ferrous) and working slow....

5 minutes in... Solid 12/41 @ 3"... 1910 Wheatie... Check for friends... nope... Tap the plug back in... Sweep over the plug... 10/41 11/40 @ 7"... hmmm... The wheatie was masking a deeper target...

It looks like a nickel... but wait... its a little bigger... I SEE A "2"... Happy dance....

I've dug over 50 coppers... 5 Colonial Silver coins... 100+ indians... 200+ Silver coins... Hundreds of Buttons, Buckles... but this 2 center has eluded me... so its been 4 years since I started... and I can now scratch this one off the list :-)

Here is the out of the hole... Water and tooth brush photo...

Here is 90 minutes later.... (Cleaned up nicely :-) )

1864... My precious....

3 minutes later... 12/42 12/44 @ 6"...

Nice 1920 Merc...

Was quiet for an hour or so...

Then came two Nickels... 1925 Buffalo and 1910 V...

20 minutes later... choppy 5" signal that I was pretty sure was an Indian... 8/33 9/32...

1888 IH...

Nice variety of finds over all...

HH ALL !
Paul

 

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[Joe88]

WOW!!!! Nice find!!!
It's a beauty!!

Joe

 

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[Gimmie The Loot]

do shield nickels clean up like that in peroxide?

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice day on the green Paul. Congrats on scratching the 2 cent piece off your list.
I had dug three of them in 25 years of detecting, then dug FOUR last year, including two on consecutive signals. Go figure....

 

[FooserPaul]

WOW!!!! Nice find!!!
It's a beauty!!

Joe

2 Cent Piece composition is like an Indian Head Penny: 95% Copper
Shield Nickel is 75% Copper and 25% Nickel... That 25% nickel does not allow those nickels to survive well in the ground... Or clean up all that well either... :-(

 

[JmCraz8]

Awesome find, I've found one a few days ago 1865, I'll have to use your cleaning method it came out perfect, once again congrats on a great find I to thought it was a nickel when it came out of the ground lol

 

[pulltabsteve]

Sweet coins Paul!!!! Congrats!

 

[rex]

found a 2 cent today. looks like an 1868. need to clean it up somemore. i will post soon. h.h.

 

[northeast hunter]

Nice digs..Whit out looking i new you where from New England with them finds keep at it...H.H

 

[ryaan21]

Welcome to the club

 

[Michigander Dan]

Holy Moly what day of digging you had, congrats on the 2 center!