More old coins from the woods- including a first

[Mi$terG]

With the thaw that we've been feeling over the past few days I thought it would be a good time to get out to my favorite section of woods, where I've been very lucky with pre-1900 coins. I got there and tried a new section, without much luck for the first hour or so. It was about 55F outside and felt much better than the last time I was out there (16F and windy!). I decided to go back to my hot spot and focus on one section of it, going as slowly as I could. About 15 minutes after I started, I was coming around the base of a tree when I got a deep penny signal that bounced occasionally lower. I was hoping for an Indian, and when I recovered the coin from about 4 inches, sure enough, it was a pretty good condition 1864. I was psyched... And continued looking. About 10 minutes passed and as I was swinging the coil past a rock I got an almost identical signal at 4 inches. I dug the target and saw "ONE CENT" on the reverse and figured I had another IHC. Great! On my way out I dug one last target that gave me a very bouncy overload signal. When I recovered the target, my initial thought was that it was a cut coin... But it doesn't appear to be silver. Anyone ever seen one of these before? When I got home I was rinsing off my finds when I saw that the second penny was a possible fatty IHC- but then noticed that the wreath wasn't right- and immediately knew what I had- my first Flying Eagle Cent! It's very corroded but I believe that it's an 1858. Any advice on how to get some detail out of it? Olive oil, peroxide, etc.? Thanks for looking and happy hunting, all!

 

[granthansen]

Congrats on the IH's and especially the FE! Hot peroxide has cleaned both those coins very nicely for me.

 

[DJWEHAGE]

Nice job. By the detail in the word "Liberty", that IH must have been dropped in 1864! That's almost 150 years in the ground.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Welcome and Nice finds.

 

[homestead hunter]

Nice coins I've only prospected till now but have bought a coin machine just waiting for the snow and frozen ground to thaw. I hope to be posting real soon with coin finds like yours very soon.

 

[Mi$terG]

Thanks for all of your responses. I have both coins cleaned up as much as I dare to- and both are now in labeled coin holders. Can't figure out what he half-whatsit is, but I'll hang on to it until I can ID it. Heading out for a short hunt in a bit. HH!

 

[Michiganne]

WTG on some nice pennies. Congrats on that first Flying Eagle.

Still hoping for my first.

HH