The Iron Brigade Strikes COLONIAL COPPER

[BuckleBoy]

Hello All,

Rodeo Recon and his lady and I went out to find an ooooooooold house site today. We got permission from the totally sweet property owners and started swinging away. They said that the original house was probably over in the side cornfield, since they had plowed up old brick earthenware pottery and glass

So we started there. One of the first signals I dug, I popped out a LARGE copper disc. I yelled at Rodeo to come over--"I've got a Large Cent!" He came over and looked (rather longingly) at that glorious piece of work in my hand. I just had to take a photo of it before I cleaned it. Now I've dug the heck out of some LC's in my day--and I was 99.99% certain that this was one. Here's the photo:




So I put the coin in my pocket and we started pounding the HECK out of the site....


It was one BEAUTIFUL spot:






Three and a half hours later--and almost all of our digging time gone, we had only a few wheats and bits of brass to show for our efforts. Where the heck were all the other old coins? Where were the flat buttons? Pewter spoon bits? Something didn't add up...


Then it hit me. We'd been hunting hard under the assumption that I'd found a LC shortly after walking on the site...


I gulped hard, started to sweat a little, and pulled the corroded disc out of my pocket. I was certain that it was a coin. I could see the "O" and "N" of "ONE CENT" on the back...or so I thought.

So I got some water out of the car and started to clean...and this is what I saw:





The "ON" that I'd seen on the coin wasn't part of "ONE CENT" but rather the "CN" of the word "FRANCS"upside down Those DAMNED FRENCH! The coin is a 1941 2 Francs. Sorry RR and Ladyfriend! We'd have made it a two-site-day if silly 'ole Buckles had possessed the intelligence to clean the coin enough to identify it while in the field. I've been fooled for a second or two with flat buttons before--but never, EVER have I been THIS duped!

And for all of you who read this post intently all the way through instead of just looking at the photos...now you kinda know how I felt. Except that I felt like a BIG clod for carrying it around in my pocket for almost four hours thinking it was a LC, and an even BIGGER CLOD for allowing such a find to eat up all our hunting time. Grrrrrr!


Regards,


Buckleboy

 

[mlhudson]

FRENCHY STRIKES AGAIN..... SKUNKED
BUT TO NO AVAIL, BUCKLES KEEP ON DIGGIN--- THAT'S WHAT WE DO. ( DIG )

LOL --- HAPPENS TO US ALL, EVERY WHERE
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME

CONGRATS ANY WAY

M L HUDSON

 

[BuckleBoy]

There is always a time that we revert back to our rookie times in our metal detecting careers.

Yep. Doesn't happen too often for me--but occasionally I'm out to lunch...or outer space, perhaps.

 

[Johnny Cache Hunter]

Congratulations anyway! That's still one hell of a nice looking field there.
You couldn't possibly have hit all of it could you?

 

[vegas247]

Well I guess you get to say 1 on the foriegn count on your finds! sorry cout your luck being new at this are large cents worth a lot my best coin was a 1905 10 gold piece found in a cache in Nelson,NV elderado canyon. anyway I'd hit that spot again if you could... Grant

 

[Merf]

Still a neat find BB.. ...That would have fooled me too.