3rd COLONIAL this year! (BETTER PICS ADDED)

incajoe · Sep 12, 2007

Went out this evening for a few hours at my favorite spot. The ground was moist from yesterdays rain so I decided to hit the area that I found the two colonial coppers earlier in the season. I changed my strategy a little this time and bumped up the discrimination just enough to tune out some of the iron bits and pieces I was digging before. It seemed to work because about an hour into the hunt I got this nice George II copper dated 1734! It was 6 or 7 inches down and was a real surprise when it popped out. Usually I will get a quarter reading on a copper coin like this but the signal was jumping around a little so I figured it wasn't a coin. In this case I'm happy to be wrong. The pictures really don't do it justice but this coin has great detail. I think it must have been lost when it was quite new. The other coins that came out of this area (within 50FT) were 1723 and 1695ish (no date visible). I wonder if there's still more there?

Mainedigger · Sep 12, 2007

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Nice find...and to answer your question about whether there is more there or not...you won;t know if you dont hit it again and again. Good luck and hopefully you may pull some old silver out of there as well!!

SeabeeRon · Sep 12, 2007

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WOW!! That is a beautiful coin! Where do you hunt??!?

incajoe · Sep 12, 2007

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Oh....Let me add that RADIO SHACK STRIKES AGAIN!
Found with a Discovery 3000.

karib2517 · Sep 12, 2007

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i like those,nice old find keep swinging in that area.

EARTHWORKS · Sep 12, 2007

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Nice! Great job.

Evolution · Sep 12, 2007

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Awesome colonial. The ground was very nice to that one. Congratulations.

West Jersey Detecting · Sep 12, 2007

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That is a real beauty!!!

Congratulations!

jorge del norte · Sep 12, 2007

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Discovery 3000......is a great "sleeper" machine.....good job

Green1 · Sep 12, 2007

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nice one !!! i heart radio shack ....

teverly · Sep 12, 2007

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Super coin!!!!

Colonial KirkPA · Sep 12, 2007

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Simply beautiful, my friend! Radio Shack has been striking lately.

Kas · Sep 12, 2007

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Beauty! It's all about the site. All you need is a detector and a few batteries.

incajoe · Sep 12, 2007

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SeabeeRon said:
WOW!! That is a beautiful coin! Where do you hunt??!?

Thank you! This place is a mowed field that I had no idea contained a colonial site when I first started looking there. I just happened to find an area that started to produce old iron and I knew that I had an old homesite. Once you stand back you can definitely see a slight impression in the ground where the house once stood. I just got lucky finding it though. I'm headed to the historical society tomorrow to check the old maps and see what else may have been around this area.

River Rat · Sep 12, 2007

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Impressive find. Congrats!

RR

bookfisher · Sep 12, 2007

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That coin really is in fantastic condition - and yes I believe there are more coins there! By the way, how big is the field and how often have you hit it? The reason I ask is because I've been hunting an approximately 100 acre woods (not all 100 acres are searchable) since June 2006 (I've giving it a break in the last month) that has produced colonial coppers, spanish 1/2 & 1 reales, large cents, a capped bust half dime and a seated half dime, plus more. It wasn't until July of this year and after at least 60 times to these woods, that I found a 1787 Massachusetts large cent in excellent condition. So I would keep hitting that field till I thought it was hunted out, and then hit it again.