VTColonialDigger
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I did some detecting this afternoon at an 1870's house I have nicknamed "the silver house", because I have pulled numerous silver coins in the past at this house. I didn't find any silver today but did find some definite keepers. I put my 8.5x 11 inch coil on my Ace 400 to see If I could snag any deep coins I had missed with the 5x8, which I had used mostly at this site before.
The first coin I found was a 1913 wheat penny around 5 inches deep in the side yard, but then moved around to the front yard. I got a consistent tone ringing high 50's-low 60's. I dug it up and soon located a nickel sized coin in the hole. When I wiped it off, I was very happy to see that it was my first shield nickel, an 1867!!
Freshly dug:
After a bit of cleaning. Unfortunately, it flaked a little.
I filled in my hole, walked forward a few feet, and got a 99 signal at 8 inches, which is usually a deep piece of Iron, but I said to myself "What the heck, it might be something good." After I had the hole open, I dug some dirt out and saw a round edge at the bottom of the hole. I figured it was just an old iron washer, so I put my finger under the edge of the "washer" and flipped it out the hole. To my surprise, a gorgeous 1851 Large Cent was staring back at me!
Right out of the dirt:
After a light toothpick of the back, the only cleaning required on this coin:
This large cent surprised me. I was not expecting to dig something like this in an 1870's house yard. It might have been dropped because there is an building next door to the house where I was searching that was a church, so that may explain the large cent.
A while after the large cent, I dug a yellow handled pocket knife probably from the 1960's. A few minutes later, my dad found a cool old relic. He had come along with me, and had been getting a little discouraged (He had been finding a lot of junk while watching me dig the old coins), but his persitence paid off when he dug this really nice pocket knife with mother of pearl handle:
After these two finds, the rain clouds were closing in so we had to stop detecting.
Good Luck & Happy Hunting
VTColonialDigger
The first coin I found was a 1913 wheat penny around 5 inches deep in the side yard, but then moved around to the front yard. I got a consistent tone ringing high 50's-low 60's. I dug it up and soon located a nickel sized coin in the hole. When I wiped it off, I was very happy to see that it was my first shield nickel, an 1867!!
Freshly dug:
After a bit of cleaning. Unfortunately, it flaked a little.
I filled in my hole, walked forward a few feet, and got a 99 signal at 8 inches, which is usually a deep piece of Iron, but I said to myself "What the heck, it might be something good." After I had the hole open, I dug some dirt out and saw a round edge at the bottom of the hole. I figured it was just an old iron washer, so I put my finger under the edge of the "washer" and flipped it out the hole. To my surprise, a gorgeous 1851 Large Cent was staring back at me!
Right out of the dirt:
After a light toothpick of the back, the only cleaning required on this coin:
This large cent surprised me. I was not expecting to dig something like this in an 1870's house yard. It might have been dropped because there is an building next door to the house where I was searching that was a church, so that may explain the large cent.
A while after the large cent, I dug a yellow handled pocket knife probably from the 1960's. A few minutes later, my dad found a cool old relic. He had come along with me, and had been getting a little discouraged (He had been finding a lot of junk while watching me dig the old coins), but his persitence paid off when he dug this really nice pocket knife with mother of pearl handle:
After these two finds, the rain clouds were closing in so we had to stop detecting.
Good Luck & Happy Hunting
VTColonialDigger
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Very nice!
