First hunt of the year, 1819 Large Cent

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

I had the day off from work today so I thought that I would try my luck at my dads house a few miles away. Everything is still frozen where I would really like to hunt. The ground is still frozen in places at my dads too.

The minelab is not working..... The ACE 250 was the machine that saved the day. About 45 min into my hunt after finding a pretty sad flat button and a very unusual oxen shoe among the crap I got a repeating dime, quarter signal. Not too deep 4". The ground in this very spot was rock solid.
I have found a few other Large Cents here so I took the time to find an iron bar in my dads garage and started chipping away. Only a few min later I had Large Cent # 3 from this spot. 1817, 1818, and now 1819.
Great time for my first hunt of 2010!

VPR

 

[Gator-Flea]

That's a nice coin!!!!

 

[Mach1Pilot]

That's a great looking largie!

 

[collector01]

Great copper! Cant beat that for a first hunt of the year, it toke me three hunts to get a copper.

 

[fathead]

Nice job! Scary hacking it out of the ground.

FH

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

That'll work

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Thanks for the replies

Ironically last years first hunt was on April 10th and it too produced a Large Cent, 1798.

I hope this trend continues

VPR

 

[RIcoinhunter]

Nice find.Just got back from VT today.Was up looking at some land the wife and i are thinking buying.Seemed every place I looked like primo MDing area's!!.Still lot's of snow cover in the woods.

 

[Sniffy]

AWESOME! Nothin better than a first hunt of the year producing a copper!

 

[dwayne sueno]

starting the year off right! bet there's an 1820 LC in there somewhere.

 

[Brian in MA]

Nice looking copper. Your year is off to a great start.

Frozen ground stinks. It finally thawed out down here, but now it's underwater !!!!

Congrats and looking forward to your future posts.

Brian in MA

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice LC !!!! MR TUFF

 

[Schrecky]

Wow, that is a nice find, congrat's

 

[Imnengr]

Wow, nice coin. Just imagine if you had just left it there frozen in the ground. I can't bear the thought.

 

[Don in SJ]

That is a great way to start off the year, glad you could get out, I need an ark in this area to hunt I did get a hunt in last week before the flood gates opened up and did get a 1817 in about the same condition, except I was disappointed, I thought when I first pocketed it that I had a Draped Bust, but the ole eyes were wrong and once it dried out a bit, I saw the Coronet. 1817 and 1819 are two of the commonest years I have found for the whole Coronet series of Large Cents.

Don

 

[Diggincoinz]

That one cleaned up nice, Congrats!

 

[mainer]

Great way to start 2010.

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Funny thing is.... I keep hoping for a Braided Hair LC. 1-Colonial Copper, 4-Draped Bust, 1-Classic Head, 4-Coronet.......0-Braided Hair Not that I am complaining

I will get one soon.

VPR

 

[Bubba65]

Sweet Largie

Bubba65

 

[The Seeker]

Now thats what I'm talking....Large copper to start the year. WTG