Mirage
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Danimal, Don and I's road trip to an 1860's home. Another old coin first.
Well it was two weeks ago that Don and I had our little road trip. It was toward the end of the day when a lady with her two kids walked by us and said “Hey, you should do that at my house. It was built in 1860.” A pretty hard offer not to accept however we didn't have time to go there that day. So Don got her name, number and address. Two weeks later Dan (Danimal) was available. I picked him up, then picked up Don and we headed to the site.
We had never seen the house and the owners hadn't been there that long. From prior experiences I knew it could be a bust but we had a solid plan B. House looked pretty good.
We chatted for a while with the owners and then it was off to business. It didn't take us too long to figure out the place had been redone. Between the three of us I was the only one to come up with a coin of any age and that happen to be a single wheat penny. I did find one cool relic though. It looks like it's at least silver plated.
Well, while Don and I were humoring the little guy following us around and taking our junk back to the house to wash it up.....
...Dan was off trying to find an old foundation “way in the back down that old road”. Bean fields looked inviting but they were on the neighbor's property.
Anyway, Dan eventually comes back. He didn't find the foundation but found this along the old road:
Now Dan and I have this thing going – typically I am skeptical of anything that he claims is old. I asked him what it was and I got the typical reply of “I don't know but it's OLD, very OLD”. “Definitely Colonial Dude” I respond. “Most likely from one of the first settlers in Ohio” I razz him.
Well I left my finds with the owners and we headed to plan B – and old camping area. The place dates back to 1818.
Dan and I have been here before. We made some good finds but you have to really work for them. I decided to hunt a steep hill that I had not hunted before.
It turned out to be a good move. One of the first signals that I thought was going to be junk turned out to be a V Nickel. The next good signal I got turned out to be some jewelry. I was really surprised that after the first one when I scanned the hole there was more. A while later I found a wheat penny, a skeleton key (my first brass) and this indistinguishable coin:
Cleaned it up and I was thrilled to see it was a Nickel Three Cent Piece!
My first. I think the date is 1883. When I looked it up in the red book it I started to have my doubts since the 1883 is a semi-key date with only 10,609 minted. Of coarse it's pretty worthless in it's current condition but I'm happy just to have found a Nickel Three Center. The 1866 I pulled from my daughter's coin collection for comparison.
Some of the other stuff:
I was also able to get a pretty good read on the V nickel date:
Either 1888 or 1886. If it's an 1886 then it's a key date.
Toward the end of the day Don had to get back so we dropped him off at our rendezvous point. We still had about an hour of daylight and Dan and I wouldn't let that go to waste. We went exploring and ended up at a very small park or tot lot that looked like from the 40s or 50s. It was fun because there were coins everywhere. It's been a while since I have experienced a place with some much clad. In the 45 minutes were were there Dan dug up 12 Quarters and 22 dimes. I didn't do as good on the clad but picked up the silver ring and two mickey mouse earings(same hole).
It was great to be out in the nice fall weather and it was very enjoyable to hunt some old sites with some good friends.
Bob
Well it was two weeks ago that Don and I had our little road trip. It was toward the end of the day when a lady with her two kids walked by us and said “Hey, you should do that at my house. It was built in 1860.” A pretty hard offer not to accept however we didn't have time to go there that day. So Don got her name, number and address. Two weeks later Dan (Danimal) was available. I picked him up, then picked up Don and we headed to the site.
We had never seen the house and the owners hadn't been there that long. From prior experiences I knew it could be a bust but we had a solid plan B. House looked pretty good.
We chatted for a while with the owners and then it was off to business. It didn't take us too long to figure out the place had been redone. Between the three of us I was the only one to come up with a coin of any age and that happen to be a single wheat penny. I did find one cool relic though. It looks like it's at least silver plated.
Well, while Don and I were humoring the little guy following us around and taking our junk back to the house to wash it up.....
...Dan was off trying to find an old foundation “way in the back down that old road”. Bean fields looked inviting but they were on the neighbor's property.
Anyway, Dan eventually comes back. He didn't find the foundation but found this along the old road:
Now Dan and I have this thing going – typically I am skeptical of anything that he claims is old. I asked him what it was and I got the typical reply of “I don't know but it's OLD, very OLD”. “Definitely Colonial Dude” I respond. “Most likely from one of the first settlers in Ohio” I razz him.
Well I left my finds with the owners and we headed to plan B – and old camping area. The place dates back to 1818.
Dan and I have been here before. We made some good finds but you have to really work for them. I decided to hunt a steep hill that I had not hunted before.
It turned out to be a good move. One of the first signals that I thought was going to be junk turned out to be a V Nickel. The next good signal I got turned out to be some jewelry. I was really surprised that after the first one when I scanned the hole there was more. A while later I found a wheat penny, a skeleton key (my first brass) and this indistinguishable coin:
Cleaned it up and I was thrilled to see it was a Nickel Three Cent Piece!
My first. I think the date is 1883. When I looked it up in the red book it I started to have my doubts since the 1883 is a semi-key date with only 10,609 minted. Of coarse it's pretty worthless in it's current condition but I'm happy just to have found a Nickel Three Center. The 1866 I pulled from my daughter's coin collection for comparison.
Some of the other stuff:
I was also able to get a pretty good read on the V nickel date:
Either 1888 or 1886. If it's an 1886 then it's a key date.
Toward the end of the day Don had to get back so we dropped him off at our rendezvous point. We still had about an hour of daylight and Dan and I wouldn't let that go to waste. We went exploring and ended up at a very small park or tot lot that looked like from the 40s or 50s. It was fun because there were coins everywhere. It's been a while since I have experienced a place with some much clad. In the 45 minutes were were there Dan dug up 12 Quarters and 22 dimes. I didn't do as good on the clad but picked up the silver ring and two mickey mouse earings(same hole).
It was great to be out in the nice fall weather and it was very enjoyable to hunt some old sites with some good friends.
Bob
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