Don in SJ
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I wish I could be proud of this one but it is really in bad shape and even my TLC cleaning techniques 
could not perform a miracle on this Large Cent. 
I walked a sandy road that appears to have been from the late 1790's or so, but the ATVs have it pretty well chewed up and I felt like an individual going up and down like in a boat with waves hitting.
The road was too trashy to really hunt so I walked a fair distance and finally saw an opening in the woods with no underbrush and sure enough there were the wonderful sound of iron hits and as I walked further into the site I saw that someone else recently had detected there and left there holes unfilled!
But the button in the one photo was lying there in one of their unfilled holes, so I gladly harvested it.
Note, there was no Cellarhole or depression at all at this place, sometimes you must look for just the opposite, in this case there were two small areas that were above normal ground level, it was the remains of the old stones used for foundation, but covered up by years of deposition of leaves and soil.
Whoever hit the site, left a early 1800's flat button lying in one of their spoil piles and then in a very open and obvious area, I got a beautiful coin reading about 7 inches down and out popped number 102!
I also did get some clad on the sandy road, which has become more of a common thing this year for some reason and overall it was not a bad few hours of hunting. I did get to walk along a wonderful Pine Barrens Tea Colored Stream, which is nice and relaxing to be next to.
As far as a date goes, I thought at one time I saw a 20, so I for now will call it an 1820, I do know for fact it is a 1816-1835 variety by the size and style of lettering but not sure of the last number....
Maybe 103 will be a special one.
Don
could not perform a miracle on this Large Cent. I walked a sandy road that appears to have been from the late 1790's or so, but the ATVs have it pretty well chewed up and I felt like an individual going up and down like in a boat with waves hitting.
The road was too trashy to really hunt so I walked a fair distance and finally saw an opening in the woods with no underbrush and sure enough there were the wonderful sound of iron hits and as I walked further into the site I saw that someone else recently had detected there and left there holes unfilled!
But the button in the one photo was lying there in one of their unfilled holes, so I gladly harvested it. Note, there was no Cellarhole or depression at all at this place, sometimes you must look for just the opposite, in this case there were two small areas that were above normal ground level, it was the remains of the old stones used for foundation, but covered up by years of deposition of leaves and soil.
Whoever hit the site, left a early 1800's flat button lying in one of their spoil piles and then in a very open and obvious area, I got a beautiful coin reading about 7 inches down and out popped number 102!
I also did get some clad on the sandy road, which has become more of a common thing this year for some reason and overall it was not a bad few hours of hunting. I did get to walk along a wonderful Pine Barrens Tea Colored Stream, which is nice and relaxing to be next to.
As far as a date goes, I thought at one time I saw a 20, so I for now will call it an 1820, I do know for fact it is a 1816-1835 variety by the size and style of lettering but not sure of the last number....
Maybe 103 will be a special one.
Don
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