With the weather absolutely perfect this weekend, I got out and hunted an old home site here in S.W. Georgia yesterday. The site seems to only produce and five and ten cent pieces. Nothing more and no pennies. I keep hoping for a large cent but none ever turn up. The highlight for me was when I pulled up, the farmer had just plowed the field as a matter of fact after I had been there for about a half hour he ran back through the small area I hunt with the plow so I could hunt it some more. I'm sure I looked like a "cow-bird" walking behind the tractor. These two half dimes were about sixty feet apart. fyrffytr1 and I have been hunting this field for a number of years now and about every time it gets plowed we find some more coins and buttons. The 1839 & 1843 were found yesterday. The other pictures are of what else has been found there. fyrffytr1 has his own collection from this same spot and is encouraged to post his pictures on here as well.
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Poor dad, worked so hard so his kids could lose his money...
See, they put holes in their coins so they could sow them into the inside of their dress or shirt. So they would not lose them. They did not have lots of pockets back then. Looks like he got mad a few times and drove that square nail strait through the coins. 







