Stunning Mailed Bust CT COPPER!

[Sniffy]

SO all day today I couldn't stop thinking about the cellar hole I found the shoe buckle and draped bust yesterday.....SO today, I bee lined straight to it after work. There was a slight drizzle which was comforting considering how warm it was today. Immediately I was attacked by the "FLIEBALLS!" (the little gnats that want to live in your eye sockets) I decided to focus very carefully on the cellar hole banks and go ULTRA slow and just "wiggle" the coil. This has technique has netted several buttons in concentrated iron. So I found 3 buttons doing this and decided to move to the opposite bank....and BLAM solid Copper signal at 0-2 inches....Immediately I wrote it off as Large Deep iron....I kicked the leaves away checked the spot...nothin... So I checked the leaves that I had just kicked away and BLAM there it was again SCREAMIN...I pinpointed and this is what I found...a 1788 Mailed Bust CT just laying on the surface...I was stunned. I went back to the spot I kicked away and the copper was just layin on rocks for oh so many years.....Thanks for lookin! Does anybody have any idea of the design on the gilted 2 piece button? It has a Hendrick & CO Waterbury backmark.

 

[hogge]

UH.....WHOA! SSSSWWWWEEEEEEET! That is a BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!! After looking at varieties.....I think it's a Miller 2-D. Common. It looks like this one by the position of the date.......But that thing has some awesome detail. Try to clean it up a bit Sniffy. Peroxide.

 

[dwayne sueno]

Beautiful copper, Sniffy.
Looks like you've got a sweet spot there!

 

[HISPAN]

Nice coin...congrats !
H

 

[Hill Billy]

Sniff, your on fire buddy.
Great finds
HB

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

yo S

From the land of the Bluenose.....man that is indeed a great find. Loved the description of swinging the coil as wiggling. Congrats!

 

[JW15]

Awesome Copper!!!

 

[tater307]

Very nice find. I would love to find something like that here in indiana.

 

[Bramblefind]

Beautiful!! Great post

 

[MaineRelic]

That is one great looking state copper Sniffy ! I knew i was going to like the posts from your new site Have fun out there MaineRelic

 

[Bubba65]

Congrats Sniffy that is one fine looking Ct Copper. Thar is also one sweet spot you have there, good luck with the future hunts there.

Bubba65

 

[sscindercoop]

Absolutely beautiful

 

[teleman 2525]

very nice find like your idea of the wiggle on the hole edges hard spot to hunt usualy lots of iron on the cellar holee edge,s very tough spots for me i,ll try your trick

 

[fyrffytr1]

Beautiful coin. I doubt I will ever find something like that down here but, I won't stop looking. As for the button I think the name is Kendrick. This is from a reference I have:
" Kendrick & Co., Waterbury, CT. Button makers c. 1830s. Probably the same firm as Ives, Kendrick & Co. composed of Green Kendrick & Ambrose Ives."

 

[Garabaldi]

Unbelievable!!!!! Nice recovery. I hope to find one as nice some day.

 

[Reverend B*IKE*]

Nice find! Awsome!!!
Banner Baby!

 

[Lookn4Seated]

Congrats on a great copper. Amazing how many beautiful coppers are coming up early this year.

 

[Nutriasub]

Very nice coin!!

Congrats

 

[RIcoinhunter]

 

[steelheadwill]

Great State Copper !
I often do the wiggle when I'm trying to locate a small target
signal in my dug pile, previously I had thought that the targets 'dissappeared' or were halos. it works really well on small targets. congrats !