Field of old copper

Mainedigger · May 23, 2008

Spent a few days out with my kids detecting an old field near my house. Found a couple colonial coppers..1747 George II Hibernia and the other I beleive is a 1740 George...also found 4 LC's 1803, 1817, no date and a counterstamped one that says either Bert;s or Bertso (any ideas

). An 1869 2 cent piece and a 1903 IH. Also found a copper that is larger than an LC but no details visible at all so am not sure what it is/was?? Also found a Merc, a silver buckle (marked sterling on the back, some horse shoes and a couple of hand forged axe heads. Field is about 16 acres..covered one area of it and all these finds were spread out thru the week...Hit the same area the other morning and got skunked, but still lots of area to hit in the field.

Ed-NH · May 30, 2008

Nice coppers I say go back out there. There are more to be found. That was a well worked field in its day. We will see more the next time you go back there 8)

Johnny Ringo Silver · May 30, 2008

Those are some sweeet finds by anybodies standards! I cant wait to see what the rest of the field holds. 8)

bigrig43 · May 30, 2008

sweet finds!! very nice,bigrig

robfinds · May 30, 2008

That buckle is very very NICE !.
HH Robert

collector01 · May 30, 2008

great finds you gotta love those coppers and that buckle is awesome keep up the good work! HH!

Brendan M. · May 30, 2008

WoW!!!! Awesome finds.

I might not have an entire month as good as the few days you spent. What a great site! WTG! :thumbsup:

Dirty Knees McGee · May 31, 2008

I would certainly consider it a great day of hunting with that many coppa's!!! Great Digs! :thumbsup:

Mainedigger · Jun 16, 2008

Johnny Ringo Silver said:
I cant wait to see what the rest of the field holds. 8)

Johnny..since the original post I have found 9 more LC's there dated 1800 thru 1839, also found an 1864 Union Forever civil war token and then the best so far...a 1795 LC and an 1787 Mass copper...No early 1800's or 1700's silver...did find a couple early 1900's Barber quarters, but am not complaining at all about the lack of silver. Plan on hitting the place hard and over and over so maybe some period silver will show.