Don in SJ
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This site has produced a nice amount of colonial coppers so far, total of seven so far since last month. But the soil is murderous on the coppers, including the buttons being found, it is a clay and gravel mixture, not the usual more sand based soil, but still I am surprised at how acidic this hilly site is compared to the nearby areas of nice white sugar sands.
I found a crusty King George copper there last Monday and returned today and within 10 feet of where I found the first I got what appeared to be my second King George.
After getting a few buttons and what is its, I wanted to explore the surrounding area a bit and on my way back to the road, I got a beautiful but very deep coin reading against the base of an Oak tree. Of course I dug and dug and there was a big root in the way. I have been hunting for a month now without the SR-1 probe installed and kind of like the lighter setup, but I sure missed that probe on this dig. I think I spent almost ten minutes locating the coin and I was being cautious in my digging as to not hit the target.
This coin was a bit larger than the first so I was not sure what it would be till cleaning later on.
After cleaning the finds, the first copper was indeed a 1775 King George III, with the Reverse side being somewhat decent, but the Obverse side was mostly gone from corrosion.
The second copper which was retrieved from under the Oak tree root, was much harder to ID. Finally I saw the bust and the letters VS at the bust and knew it was a King George II Halfpenny.
It has been an amazing year so far for old coppers, nine from the 1700s and one from the 1800's and that is a 1801 Draped Bust, so it is the year of the oldies, much like last year.
Now it is time to find a new site where the soil is much kinder to coppers, or perhaps time to start finding colonial silver.
Don
I found a crusty King George copper there last Monday and returned today and within 10 feet of where I found the first I got what appeared to be my second King George.
After getting a few buttons and what is its, I wanted to explore the surrounding area a bit and on my way back to the road, I got a beautiful but very deep coin reading against the base of an Oak tree. Of course I dug and dug and there was a big root in the way. I have been hunting for a month now without the SR-1 probe installed and kind of like the lighter setup, but I sure missed that probe on this dig. I think I spent almost ten minutes locating the coin and I was being cautious in my digging as to not hit the target.
This coin was a bit larger than the first so I was not sure what it would be till cleaning later on.
After cleaning the finds, the first copper was indeed a 1775 King George III, with the Reverse side being somewhat decent, but the Obverse side was mostly gone from corrosion.
The second copper which was retrieved from under the Oak tree root, was much harder to ID. Finally I saw the bust and the letters VS at the bust and knew it was a King George II Halfpenny.
It has been an amazing year so far for old coppers, nine from the 1700s and one from the 1800's and that is a 1801 Draped Bust, so it is the year of the oldies, much like last year.
Now it is time to find a new site where the soil is much kinder to coppers, or perhaps time to start finding colonial silver.
Don
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You can end the year now and still conclude that it was a great season for Colonial digging. Thanks for sharing pieces of Colonial New Jersey history, Don. 
