1900's Campsite Gives up an 1827 Large Cent! What the heck?

FreeBirdTim

Silver Member
Sep 24, 2013
3,757
6,729
Scituate, RI
🥇 Banner finds
1
Detector(s) used
Garrett AT Pro
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Went back to the early 1900's campsite that gave up a 1904 Teddy Roosevelt watch fob and five horseshoes. Found a lot of junk iron, as well as an eight horseshoe spill! I'm setting all sorts of personal horseshoe records at this spot! Boring, I know, but I like finding iron relics.

But the find of the day was an 84 signal about six inches down. I was hoping for a Barber dime, but out pops a large cent! Pretty toasted, but I think it's from 1827. Can't imagine how it ended up at this spot. Maybe it was someone's lucky coin? No idea, but I'm glad they lost it.


1827 large cent 2.JPG 1827 large cent.JPG 1827 LC.JPG 1827 LC back.JPG horseshoe spill.JPG
 

Upvote 16

Squirrel322

Silver Member
Jul 4, 2016
4,420
9,427
Central MI
Detector(s) used
E-Trac, Equinox 800, Go-Find 66, ACE 250
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
I'm trying to wrap my head around an 8 legged horse.... :dontknow:

Thats a very nice coin also :icon_thumright:
 

A2coins

Gold Member
Dec 20, 2015
33,807
42,606
Ann Arbor
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
3
Detector(s) used
Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
That's what it is cool find. When you wrap your head around that 8 legged horse ya better horse it doesn't kick lol
 

OP
OP
FreeBirdTim

FreeBirdTim

Silver Member
Sep 24, 2013
3,757
6,729
Scituate, RI
🥇 Banner finds
1
Detector(s) used
Garrett AT Pro
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Thanks, guys! Hard to imagine 13 horseshoes in one area. Not a dump site, because there's zero broken glass or pottery. Maybe they were using horses for logging and wearing out shoes on a regular basis? Scituate has some pretty rough terrain in the woods.

I'm now up to 63 horseshoes since I started detecting back in 2013! Gotta stop saving all these iron relics. Running out of places to stash them!
 

Oct 5, 2014
31,886
35,424
Massachusetts
🥇 Banner finds
1
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Garrett: AT Pro, AT Gold & Infinium; Minelab: Explorer SE, II; Simplex; Tesoro: Tejon & Outlaw; White's: V3i
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Nice old copper coin find! :occasion14:
 

Rookster

Gold Member
Nov 24, 2013
29,382
111,597
Detector(s) used
XP Deus, F75Ltd., AT PRO, Garrett pointer
Primary Interest:
Cache Hunting
With that many horse shoe finds, just think of the luck the future brings.:laughing7: nice largie.
 

Top Member Reactions

Users who are viewing this thread

Top