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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