Don in SJ
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I'm slowly getting back into the hunting mode, but it will still be a few months till "my season" begins, but I did get out this morning, trying to beat the rain (I did) and get a few hours of "Pingin" in and glad I went.
I started out at the homestead I got the Pineapple button and 3 in 1 coin at more than a year ago and only could muster some shotgun casings and few scraps of metal, but one of them has a nice design on it!
I really did not want to walk alot today for various reasons but the urge to walk down an old 1800 era road was strong and I knew from studying some aerials that a possible old homestead was about a mile and half away so I decided to explore.
Although the new possible site did not pan out, on the way back to my truck, at an old crossroads in the woods, there was a familar lack of ground cover in an area the size of a homestead and I do remember years back hitting the site briefly and determining no house was ever there, it could have been a work area though. I decided to spend a few minutes and seeing if the iron hits were there, they were not.
As I was about to leave I got a great coin reading and down about 6 inches or so in the very gravely soil a copper popped out.
Right away I thought Half Cent by the size, but without my reading specs and with all the crud on it I was not sure. I did know it was not a quarter, but then I had thoughts it might have been a 2 Cent piece, I hoped not. Much rather get any Half Cent over a 2 Center.
When I got back to the truck, even with glasses I was not sure what the copper was, and actually not till I put it in peroxide for a few minutes, was I able to ID the coin.
This Half Cent was my 21st one I have found, and the third this year, with the other two being a 1793 and a 1797. I did not have a 1809 in my finds collection.
Don
I started out at the homestead I got the Pineapple button and 3 in 1 coin at more than a year ago and only could muster some shotgun casings and few scraps of metal, but one of them has a nice design on it!
I really did not want to walk alot today for various reasons but the urge to walk down an old 1800 era road was strong and I knew from studying some aerials that a possible old homestead was about a mile and half away so I decided to explore.
Although the new possible site did not pan out, on the way back to my truck, at an old crossroads in the woods, there was a familar lack of ground cover in an area the size of a homestead and I do remember years back hitting the site briefly and determining no house was ever there, it could have been a work area though. I decided to spend a few minutes and seeing if the iron hits were there, they were not.
As I was about to leave I got a great coin reading and down about 6 inches or so in the very gravely soil a copper popped out.Right away I thought Half Cent by the size, but without my reading specs and with all the crud on it I was not sure. I did know it was not a quarter, but then I had thoughts it might have been a 2 Cent piece, I hoped not. Much rather get any Half Cent over a 2 Center.
When I got back to the truck, even with glasses I was not sure what the copper was, and actually not till I put it in peroxide for a few minutes, was I able to ID the coin.
This Half Cent was my 21st one I have found, and the third this year, with the other two being a 1793 and a 1797. I did not have a 1809 in my finds collection.
Don
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Victorian dress buckle but perhaps a Georgian one, the site is too old for Victorian era finds. (LOL, heard on the news today that they found some of Queen V's undergarments and the sizes were, well let's say HUGE. 
