Don in SJ
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- May 20, 2005
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Those darn modern 1801's.
I went on a hike this morning to a site that takes about half hour to briskly walk to and even though I have been there about 3 times before, only on the first hunt did I find a coin (1776 KGIII Irish Halfpenny). The other two hunts I got Tombac buttons but no more coins. This morning I concentrated on a different side of the main iron field and found a small depression where on the rim of it I got a coin reading and sure enough a large copper was buried there.
A few feet away I got a Tombac button and besides some shotgun casings and several bullets, I had no other diggable readings.
The coin is a a 1801 Draped Bust Large Cent, Sheldon 223 variety which has the 1/000 fraction, which is a very common one regardless.
The first coin to break into the 1800s for me this year, my son did it sort of on Sunday, with a 1800ish Chinese cash coin, but he also got a 1787 Conn Copper to boot!
So this year has been great so far for both of us with nine 1700 era coppers already along with the Large Cent and Chinese coin.
Don
I went on a hike this morning to a site that takes about half hour to briskly walk to and even though I have been there about 3 times before, only on the first hunt did I find a coin (1776 KGIII Irish Halfpenny). The other two hunts I got Tombac buttons but no more coins. This morning I concentrated on a different side of the main iron field and found a small depression where on the rim of it I got a coin reading and sure enough a large copper was buried there.
A few feet away I got a Tombac button and besides some shotgun casings and several bullets, I had no other diggable readings.
The coin is a a 1801 Draped Bust Large Cent, Sheldon 223 variety which has the 1/000 fraction, which is a very common one regardless.
The first coin to break into the 1800s for me this year, my son did it sort of on Sunday, with a 1800ish Chinese cash coin, but he also got a 1787 Conn Copper to boot!
So this year has been great so far for both of us with nine 1700 era coppers already along with the Large Cent and Chinese coin.
Don
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