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Lazy Mans Rest gives up some Copper. A first for me. 1864 2 Cent piece

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With the deer hunter gone :thumbsup: I moved in for the kill :D. Even with today being the last day of the mild weather :-\ , I'm going back the rest of the week even if it's cold again :icon_pirat:. There is so many places to hunt here :o. I included a lot of pictures so you can get an idea how much land I have to cover. I first started up around the house and the front yard with my sniper coil. (I need to put the big one back on) so I can cover more area. I wasn't 1 hour into the hunt and on the North side of the house under the clothes line (I don't think it has been there that long) I had a nice penny dime hit at 6 inches. I knew it was a coin. Dug down into the rich, dark and damp soil, put the probe in and heard the humming of the pin pointer :hello2:. Pulled it out figuring it was a penny and lightly rubbed the dirt away and to my astonishment I didn't recognize the coin ???. A little more cleaning then revealed the 2 cent symbol I was soooo excited as this is my first :happy2: :blob3:. I knew it was something I did not recognize so it wasn't an IH or LC buy it's size. It's the first year of the 2 cent piece too (1864-1873) so it's Civil War Era. I also so found some What's it's and 3 Winchester Repeater 16 Ga. shot shell bottoms, an old looking brass shell which has 2 firing pin marks and a "C" on the bottom, a few wheaties, a few memorials, a cutex lipstick thingy, some kind of small thin gear thingy, some kind of tag with several patent dates on it and some other thingys in which I have no idea ???. I have the 2 center bathing right now so I will take some better pics once it's had it's manicure ;D Enjoy the pics as I have included a lot tonight :coffee2:. Also at the end of the pictures is a little bit of history about the coin.Thanks for looking ::), Ron "Smitty" S. :wav: New cleaned up pics added on the end

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Clich below to view some history on the 2 center

http://www.dailyushistory.com/aa/Two-Cent Piece.htm
 
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Re: Lazy Mans Rest gives up some Copper.... A first for me....1864 2 Center..Yippee!

Congrats on the fantastic find, Ron!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

That baby sure did clean up nice and is in mighty fine shape! ;D ;D :thumbsup:

WTG!!
Neil
 
Re: Lazy Mans Rest gives up some Copper.... A first for me....1864 2 Center..Yippee!

kimsdad said:
Congrats on the fantastic find, Ron!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

That baby sure did clean up nice and is in mighty fine shape! ;D ;D :thumbsup:

WTG!!
Neil

Thanks Neil
 
Re: Lazy Mans Rest gives up some Copper.... A first for me....1864 2 Center..Yippee!

tymcmurray said:
That 2 center is in fantastic shape!!!
Congrats!!!

Thanks Jerry and tymc :coffee2:
 
Re: Lazy Mans Rest gives up some Copper.... A first for me....1864 2 Center..Yippee!

John Deere Digger said:
Wow, amazing 2 cent piece. WTG
JDD

Thanks JDD and rtde1 :icon_sunny:
 
Great looking 2 cent coin! You have a large area to detect, should keep you busy for a very long time, LOL. HH, Mike
 
That's an amazing 2 center for being dug. Congrats!
 
Colonial Copper Zeus said:
Nice story, nice research, nice pics and congratulations on your first 2 center. It's a beaut. :thumbsup:
Chris
Thanks Chris, Mike and 93Vector
 
Ron,
That is an absolutely GORGEOUS 2 Center!
What a sweeeeet find!
I am jealous!

Really looking forward to more of your posts!
Looks to me like you will be spending some Quality time on this site, for years!

Congrats! Congrats! Congrats!

Thank you for posting.

Good Luck, and have a Happy New Year,
Mark
 
Ron, what a GREAT looking 2 cent piece. I have found many of them and none of mine
look that good. Of course mine came out of worked fields and yours had to come from around
the yard. Fantastic find. Congrats!!!!

HH,Ringfinder
 
That is a great looking 2 center...congrats.

Happy New Years.

NJ
 
N.J.THer said:
That is a great looking 2 center...congrats.

Happy New Years.

NJ

I agree, I wish I had forgiving soil :P
 
mpostma said:
Ron,
That is an absolutely GORGEOUS 2 Center!
What a sweeeeet find!
I am jealous!

Really looking forward to more of your posts!
Looks to me like you will be spending some Quality time on this site, for years!

Congrats! Congrats! Congrats!

Thank you for posting.

Good Luck, and have a Happy New Year,
Mark

Same to you MP and RF. Best wishes for a happy 09 :coffee2:
 
CJH...Congrats my friend. That is NICE :wav:
I bet that one 'bout caused a change of shorts. ;D
 
Ron, that's a sweet looking first 2 cent piece for you, my first was banged up from gravel. Next thing you know, you'll be posting your first "something else" ;D Good luck and thanks for going out detecting with me today. My face is now thawed out. ::)
Happy New Year
Steve
 
daytondigger said:
Ron, that's a sweet looking first 2 cent piece for you, my first was banged up from gravel. Next thing you know, you'll be posting your first "something else" ;D Good luck and thanks for going out detecting with me today. My face is now thawed out. ::)
Happy New Year
Steve

Thanks alot, Steve for picking me up and taking to your secret "honey hole". Too bad we couldn't have stayed longer :D I had a great time and found a first, which I'll be posting here tonight. Hope to dig again New Years day. Ron :icon_sunny:
 
silverfreak said:
CJH...Congrats my friend. That is NICE :wav:
I bet that one 'bout caused a change of shorts. ;D

Thanks again, Bryce. You have been an ispiration for many of us in 08., including me. Before I started to detect, I would spend hours on here trying to learn what I could. Thanks again and may you have a prosperous 09............ Ron
 

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