Beautiful Half Dime from the beanfield

[Goes4ever]

Last two day I was hunting the harvested bean fields. Friday I hit a field I hit last yr, wanted to go back because it was corn last year, didn't get a lot, but didn't expect much since I already hunted it pretty hard before. Found a thimble, the decorative leaf piece, lipstick tube, a button, a busted crotal bell and lastly a 1941 merc. The indian came from the day before at a farm house.


Saturday I hit a virgin "to me" bean field. First coin of the day was within 30 min of being there and it was the ONLY coin the entire day, and I hunted from 830am to 130pm. BUT I am not complaining, it was a real nice 1855 half dime!!!! It is only my second half dime in 6 yrs, these lil guys don't show up much around here. I guess I did find another coin kinda....it was one of those Chinese coins, it was broke in 3 pieces, part was on top the ground, the other 2 pieces were bout 2" deep, had to stick in in a coin flip to hold it together, I know nothing about them, no idea how old it is?


This field had very little targets for being virgin, I found the large brass front door piece, thought that was really cool. My buddy got 3 indians, one was a 1869, of course that is one I need to complete my dug set.....hahahaha.

 

[vpnavy]

 

[ModernMiner]

Awesome recoveries G4E.
Congrats on that beautiful half dime. Those suckers are tiny. No wonder they got lost.
Your right, that old door piece is a way cool find.
What it that piece in the upper right of the first photo? Tie tack?
Nice post,
MM

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Crikey ! 55 arrows Seated lib 1/2 dime that's a beaut

 

[CoilyGirl]

Wow,beautiful finds! That little indian cent is such a pretty color.

 

[Heatherbelle654]

! That door piece is just lovely!!

 

[Fattony315]

Great half dime, great finds.

 

[Davers]

Very nice SL Half dime also nice Mercury & Indian cent ,the other items are keepers as well; You have actually dug every example of Indian cent minted Except the 1869 a tuff date to dig ,as you know not the tuffest tho , If so how long did it take? I'm pretty sure me & others would admire that accomplishment . Good day.

 

[jewelerguy]

fantastic finds!

 

[tennessee digger]

Great finds.....love the half dime!

 

[Goes4ever]

Very nice SL Half dime also nice Mercury & Indian cent ,the other items are keepers as well; You have actually dug every example of Indian cent minted Except the 1869 a tuff date to dig ,as you know not the tuffest tho , If so how long did it take? I'm pretty sure me & others would admire that accomplishment . Good day.

No I need 6 to complete a dug set, I re-read what I posted and see how it sounds like the 1869 was the ONLY one I needed to complete the dug set. I have been detecting for 6 yrs have dug over 550 indians and still need 1869..1871..1872..1877..1908s..and 1909s and I will have a complete dug set. I think the 1877 and 1909s will be near impossible, but who knows? I never dreamed I would dig a 1916D merc either!!

 

[wheatfinder13]

Nicely done, my friend

 

[testing123]

Beautiful half dime! Love the die crack on the reverse too!!

 

[Twinkletoes]

Great finds! Congratulations! Gotta love the silver!


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[Woodswoman]

Those are some really great finds. Sorry your bell was broken did you research these fields and knew they had a history or did you just hit them ? How did you have such good luck ? Thanks for sharing !

 

[silversweeper]

Nice digs, G4E! I love the half dime but I'm with testing123.....very cool that it has the die crack so evident on the back. HH

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Goes4ever]

Those are some really great finds. Sorry your bell was broken did you research these fields and knew they had a history or did you just hit them ? How did you have such good luck ? Thanks for sharing !

Luck? it is not luck, finding oldies is because of research. I spend about the same time researching old maps, overlaying maps, finding owners, contacting them and getting permission as I do spend time actually detecting.

Any field I hunt either has a homesite on it, or a 1 room school house or church.........all info you can get by researching old maps, they are hundreds of sites like this in my county alone.

 

[Woodswoman]

Luck? it is not luck, finding oldies is because of research. I spend about the same time researching old maps, overlaying maps, finding owners, contacting them and getting permission as I do spend time actually detecting.

Any field I hunt either has a homesite on it, or a 1 room school house or church.........all info you can get by researching old maps, they are hundreds of sites like this in my county alone.

Ok, thanks. I research also but have not tried old maps. I have fields ( in corn now ) that I can hunt when the time is right but I don't know what sat in those fields 100 years ago yet. I'll do more looking.

 

[Goes4ever]

Ok, thanks. I research also but have not tried old maps. I have fields ( in corn now ) that I can hunt when the time is right but I don't know what sat in those fields 100 years ago yet. I'll do more looking.

if your in Indiana, trust me there are homesites tore down all over in the country............try Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ? they have OLD maps