I found my first large copper of the season

Goes4ever · Mar 20, 2011

went over to my buddies house today who wants to start detecting, brought him my xterra 70 to use since it fairly simple to run. We hunted around his house and it was mega trashy so we drove around looking for somewhere to dig. We saw a old one room school with a bean field around it, we stopped and asked the house next door who the owner was, and we secured permission. Almost the first signal I got was the large cent. When I cleaned it off it was toast, so I tumbled it.....oh well it is still cool in my book..lol

I found the ice cream token in his yard, and the bike medallion I have no idea about that one?? The back is blank, still a neat find.

I included a pic of the one room school we hunted a long time after I got the LC and neither of us got another single coin or even a cool relic.We did however dig about 4lbs of aluminum cans though!

tymcmurray · Mar 20, 2011

The soil tore up that large copper, but still a nice find!

johnnyblaze · Mar 20, 2011

Congrats.. Many more will follow.
Cool pic..It looks well built by craftsman...
Definately a nice building to restore...

Blaze....

bookfisher · Mar 20, 2011

That large cent still looks a helluva lot better than most of the ones I dig up!

HEAVYMETALNUT · Mar 20, 2011

nice finds! cool building too! congrats on your 1st of the year! many more to follow! :thumbsup:

Goes4ever · Mar 20, 2011

I found this on google concerning the Bicycle medallion
LAYMAN & CAREY CO.
Indianapolis
ca. 1873-1915

oakhunter27 · Mar 22, 2011

nice finds like them school houses

Woodland Detectors · Mar 22, 2011

That's the way!

Nice digs.

West Jersey Detecting · Mar 22, 2011

Congrats on the copper. That looks like it may turn out to be a very productive site. I would go back and grid out the property.

Here is a similar old schoolhouse in a ghost town outside of Trenton NJ. I think it was built around 1920.