Quite the surprise today... A cob!

[Mach1Pilot]

My son has been away from home for a few months in college. Since it has been a while we wanted to get out and do some hunting.... Let him shake the rust off of his Etrac.

The site we picked out has some French and Indian war history... While it has been hit hard in the past we know there has to be a few more goodies hanging around.

Well, we found it what we were looking for. About an hour and a half into the hunt, I had a decent sounding signal under the coil... But I waited for my son to hear it before digging it. I was thinking it would be another .69 cal musket ball. He dug the plug... Much to our surprise we found this cob!

It's a first for me, and not something I was expecting to find in central PA. But the best part was being able to share this moment with my son. More than likely it will be spring before we can share a hunt again, so this was a treat.

Anyone have an idea as to a mintage date?


oh - couple of notes about the pictures- ignore the IH, it's only there for a size reference. And the second coin was found at the same site, ID unknown

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Steve, I do remember you saying that... but I'm still surprised to find it.

No doubt I'll be back looking for more!

Keith, I am not surprised that you dug a cob at that site. When you took me there a couple weeks ago I said "a place like this could have a cob or a cut piece of silver lurking". Reason being that Virginia provincials passed through there during the French & Indian War, and we know how many cobs and cut pieces turn up on colonial Virginia sites. My only cob was found in one of Washington's French & Indian camps about 60 miles west of where yours was found.