At long last I finally dug my 2 cent piece

[relic lover]

Took a day off work to locate an old abandoned grist mill in the woods found it but it was pounded and had no targets to dig. I guess you can see it from the road in the winter when there's no foliage. Still a cool place to visit stellar stone work! Got discouraged and headed to one of my sites I have hunted for 3 years. it still produces if you are willing to bleed a little in the wild rose patches and put up with all the thick brush. 5 hours into my days hunting I got a nickle signal that was not hollow sounding like a shot shell. Tried the sunray pinpointer from the surface and got no signal ..a great sign its a coin. I dug a big plug and under it is a very odd size coin after some rubbing I saw the 2 and did the happy dance! Then I saw that I nicked it and wondered how could I be that far off on my pinpointing rescanned and found it was a coin spill with a bunch of trashed shield nickles in the hole all of which sounded like gold in the headphones. The 1866 2 cent is not perfect but great for a copper in this soil. I carry it around the house like I did my first large cent!

 

[Steve in PA]

That looks like an old Iron Furnace. Congrats on the 2 center

 

[relic lover]

That looks like an old Iron Furnace. Congrats on the 2 center

It does look a bit but it is open inside and the old map says it is a "G mill" plus no pig iron in the ground. I will return one day to detect the rim of the mill pond to look for swimmers lost coins

 

[kuger]

Awesome!!This year is my year to dig one!!

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Very nice, Congrats on your first Relic Lover

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

That's one of the best dug 2 centers I've seen that was dug! I wish ours came out of the ground like that! Our soil out here eats em up. Nice find!

 

[allen]

that is a beauty in my book !!!

 

[cntrydncr1]

that is in really nice shape too! congrats

 

[billpa]

The two cent piece is very nice shape, cool looken place to hunt.

 

[relic lover]

Thanks for all the replies folks. I don't think I would be more excited if it was a bust coin. This coin has been at the top of my wish list for years!