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

crazyjarhead · Dec 30, 2008

With the deer hunter gone :thumbsup:

I moved in for the kill

. 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

. 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:

. 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

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

LabradorBob (Missouri) · Jan 2, 2009

Love the 2 cent piece,CONGRATS!
Very nice one too i might add.

crazyjarhead · Jan 2, 2009

LabradorBob said:
Love the 2 cent piece,CONGRATS!
Very nice one too i might add.

Thanks Bob :icon_sunny:

tr snyper · Jan 2, 2009

Bravo on that 2 cent piece! In 28 years hunting that's the sweetest 2cent piece I've ever seen come out of the ground. And this thread just confirmed that I was right about the aluminum clothes pins. I found one last week and that's what I thought it was but was told they were only made out of wood. I never believed that one anyway. GREAT FIND

crazyjarhead · Jan 2, 2009

tr snyper said:
Bravo on that 2 cent piece! In 28 years hunting that's the sweetest 2cent piece I've ever seen come out of the ground. And this thread just confirmed that I was right about the aluminum clothes pins. I found one last week and that's what I thought it was but was told they were only made out of wood. I never believed that one anyway. GREAT FIND

Thanks ty sniper. When I first saw it I thought, maybe

? But it was. I've never seen one before ::)

KirkTN · Jan 3, 2009

Very Nice 2. I'd love to find one. Good Job.

crazyjarhead · Jan 3, 2009

KirkTN said:
Very Nice 2. I'd love to find one. Good Job.

Thanks Kirk :icon_sunny:

Lookn4Seated · Jan 3, 2009

Thats one beautiful 2 center crazyjarhead. Great find! I can't wait to see what else pops out of there. GL&HH :thumbsup:

crazyjarhead · Jan 3, 2009

jon_giebult said:
Thats one beautiful 2 center crazyjarhead. Great find! I can't wait to see what else pops out of there. GL&HH

Nothing else

I've been denied to hunt there anymore $:-\$

mpostma · Jan 4, 2009

CJH!
What the heck happened? Why would they revoke permission?
So sorry to hear that! Any chance they would change their mind again?

Wishing you the best on this!
Mark

crazyjarhead · Jan 4, 2009

mpostma said:
CJH!
What the heck happened? Why would they revoke permission?
So sorry to hear that! Any chance they would change their mind again?

Wishing you the best on this!
Mark

With the lady around, probably not. Believe me, I did nothing at all. I always respect peoples property like it was my own. I did not want to loses this place. I'm sticking to my hunch. I can read people pretty good, and when she answered the door I knew I didn't feel comfortable around her. besides, my grandmother who is 95 told me that when they got married something had happened between her and Tom's mother. That was Tom's mothers place. She died last year. Tom's wife is in the real estate business. Tom has 2 places now with lots of acres. So right there is a problem. Anyway, enough said