Don in SJ
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April 2010 ended with one more old coin to add to my collection, the month was one of my best months for variety in a very long time and sure did make up for the slow start this year due to the weather.
I went to a site that my son and I have been hitting for a few years, it is rather large and we still occasionally get a coin or two and it is also not real thick with underbrush so once warm weather arrives along with all the underbrush filling out, this site is a nice peaceful area to spend a few hours detecting .
My first hour of hunting only resulted in some Shotgun casings and one piece of a broken unknown, a small hunk, but it has nice design so I sort of cleaned it and am including the photo with this post.
As I meandered around the site, went a little further uphill than normal and after not getting anything I slowly detected towards an old burrow pit and just as I got within a stone's throw of it, I got a good reading to dig.
It was a button and rather cruddy, but I could tell it had design on it and was hoping it would be another military button from this site that has produced the most military buttons of any site in recent years for us. But, upon cleaning it at home it ended up being a 1830s or so era flower design two piece button.
But, a few feet away I got one of those no doubt about it copper coin readings and after a short dig out popped a cruddy copper. I had no idea what it was at the time, always hope for another state copper, but I would not know until I got it home and cleaned it good.
The copper turned out to be a KGII Halfpenny, which was nice but what made the find nicer was it was dated 1729 making it my first one with that date, so anytime I find an old copper and it is a date I did not have, that will make my day.
Overall, April was very good to me coin wise, and the list of them is below, unfortunately for relics it was just a button month and nothing unusual or outstanding was found .
April 2010 coin finds:
1722 King George I HalfPenny
1729 King George II Halfpenny
1775 King George III HalfPenny
1782 Spanish One Real
1784 King George III HalfPenny-Batty 3826b
1784 Spanish Half Real
1787 Connecticut Colonial
1787 Connecticut Colonial
1788 Connecticut Colonial
1793 Flowing Hair Large Cent
1825 Coronet Type Large Cent
1826 Capped Bust Half Dollar
1827 Capped Bust Half Dollar
1858 Flying Eagle Cent
My son did rather well considering he only hunted a few times all month:
1794 Liberty Cap Large Cent
1803 Draped Bust Large Cent
1805 Draped Bust Half Cent
1808 Classic Head Large Cent
1816 Coronet Large Cent
1828 Coronet Large Cent
N/D Draped Bust Large Cent
Don
I went to a site that my son and I have been hitting for a few years, it is rather large and we still occasionally get a coin or two and it is also not real thick with underbrush so once warm weather arrives along with all the underbrush filling out, this site is a nice peaceful area to spend a few hours detecting .
My first hour of hunting only resulted in some Shotgun casings and one piece of a broken unknown, a small hunk, but it has nice design so I sort of cleaned it and am including the photo with this post.
As I meandered around the site, went a little further uphill than normal and after not getting anything I slowly detected towards an old burrow pit and just as I got within a stone's throw of it, I got a good reading to dig.
It was a button and rather cruddy, but I could tell it had design on it and was hoping it would be another military button from this site that has produced the most military buttons of any site in recent years for us. But, upon cleaning it at home it ended up being a 1830s or so era flower design two piece button.
But, a few feet away I got one of those no doubt about it copper coin readings and after a short dig out popped a cruddy copper. I had no idea what it was at the time, always hope for another state copper, but I would not know until I got it home and cleaned it good.
The copper turned out to be a KGII Halfpenny, which was nice but what made the find nicer was it was dated 1729 making it my first one with that date, so anytime I find an old copper and it is a date I did not have, that will make my day.
Overall, April was very good to me coin wise, and the list of them is below, unfortunately for relics it was just a button month and nothing unusual or outstanding was found .
April 2010 coin finds:
1722 King George I HalfPenny
1729 King George II Halfpenny
1775 King George III HalfPenny
1782 Spanish One Real
1784 King George III HalfPenny-Batty 3826b
1784 Spanish Half Real
1787 Connecticut Colonial
1787 Connecticut Colonial
1788 Connecticut Colonial
1793 Flowing Hair Large Cent
1825 Coronet Type Large Cent
1826 Capped Bust Half Dollar
1827 Capped Bust Half Dollar
1858 Flying Eagle Cent
My son did rather well considering he only hunted a few times all month:
1794 Liberty Cap Large Cent
1803 Draped Bust Large Cent
1805 Draped Bust Half Cent
1808 Classic Head Large Cent
1816 Coronet Large Cent
1828 Coronet Large Cent
N/D Draped Bust Large Cent
Don
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(And no farthings that year.) I have '30, '31, and '33 CTFT 1/2d's on the way from the UK.
