2 Old Home Sites; 3/25/2012

[Deerhunter24]

Went to my uncles today. He has a newer house, probably less than 20 years old. However, it was built behind where an old house stood. Original house was probably pre-1860's as the area I was hunting dates back to the 1820s/1830s.

Anyway, found some interesting things. Not sure what a lot of it is. I mainly look for coins.

Found 4 Coins...all good finds in my book.

Find of the day was an 1864 Indianhead Penny in VF-20/EF-40 if it weren't for the hole in it!!!

It was about 6" Deep. Man its gotta be one of the better Injuns I've dug.

Also score 2 wheats; 1917D and 1940 Washington Quarter.

The pic of MULTIPLE ITEMS are from this site.

Anyway, after that...I hit a vacant lot with a buddy who had obtained permission (former old home site...probably 1890-1900). Found 11 coins there in about 30 minutes.

3 Good Finds there.

1934 Mercury Dime; 1945D Wheat Penny; Some other token type thing. Looks familiar, but cant tell ya what it is. Any help would be cool.

Anyway, here are some pics of the finds.

 

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[Deerhunter24]

Here are the pics.

DH24

 

[Diggit]

looks like quite a good haul there. The shell casing in the middle is from a .30-30 WIN or a .32 caliber rifle.

 

[Deerhunter24]

Yeah. Its a Western 30-30

 

[Diggit]

i take it those spoons were plated? I always get excited when I dig cutlery, hoping it is solid silver, but alas.. never is.. :-(

 

[Deerhunter24]

Yes. I'd say the one together probably was plated. The broken one is brass I think. Those 2 halves of the spoon were at least 3 feet apart.

DH24

 

[old digger]

Way to go, Congratulations!

 

[Deerhunter24]

UPDATE***

That 1864 Indianhead has an L.

So its an 1864 L. Man its worth $190 in VF. $300 in EF-40.

Not that I'd sell it...but now really bummed that it has a hole in it.

I'm gonna try to post a better pic.


This is definately one of my more rare find. Compares to my 1892S Barber Dime.


DH24

 

[Deerhunter24]

Here is an updated pic of the 1864L Indianhead.

 

[flakefinder]

Nice fines and nice looking IH to bad about the hole but still a good find I have a 1864 L nice to know it's worth that much, Congrats.

 

[Michigander Dan]

Too bad about IH but still a rare find indeed and it's always exciting to find spoons/cutlery. Congrats on the Merc and silver quarter too. WTG!

 

[postalgriff]

congrats on another good hunt!....good looking silver and sweet rare IH! that's a nice keeper holed or not!....crazy how each side is different in color.... good stuff though...thanks for sharing

 

[Brentallica]

Congrat$ on the old Indian and Silvers - you are sure finding some good spots! I have found a couple tokens that look like yours but not sure either. Maybe an animal tag?

 

[worldtalker]

DH24,I'd sure be visitin uncle more often! Nice haul for sure!!! God Bless Chris

 

[Mike from MI]

My kind of digs!

 

[Deerhunter24]

Postalgriff...that is crazy about different color on each side. Its not as noticable in reality. Lighting for pictures probably varied as I took the pics with my cell phone so I kept having to angle the coins differently to get a good shot. But there is defintately a difference.

DH24

 

[Michiganne]

Nice coins. Congrats on a sweet IH, hole or not.

HH