What the heck are you doing here?

[vferrari]

I was doing a low key, relaxing bay beach run looking for some long shot late season recent jewelry drops, but pulling mostly the expected clad, junk earrings, e-cig parts, bottlecaps, and pull tabs. Then the Deus hit a weird high 70's signal with odd audio in full tones. When I first plopped the target onto the sand from the scoop, it looked like the outline of just another clad quarter except for the strange light green corrosion. Weird, because I wasn't even expecting a coin at all based on the Deus audio and target ID. Looking closer, I realized this was no quarter. I could make out the faint outline of a shield and an 1800's date stamp. Sure, I've pulled wheaties and mercs off this beach but mostly clad and modern jewelry. So this was a complete but pleasant surprise. Ironically, I pulled my first 2-cent piece off the beach instead of from the Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania relic fields that I thought would eventually give one up. Strange, but I'm not complaining. I wish this coin could talk and give me it's two cents worth and tell me how the heck an 1864 two-cent piece ended up in the recent dry fill sand of an eastern shore bay beach. Go figure. That's what keeps this hobby exciting. Expect the unexpected.

 

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[Blak bart]

Very nice V.....possible replenishment find.....maybe that sand came from richer parts...at least in terms of relics and older coins....go back. Congrats on your pleasent surprise !!

 

[pepperj]

Very cool recovery, congrats on getting your first.
Finds like these make the on all the possibles. It looks in pretty good shape considering the environment it has been laying in for all these years.

 

[sandchip]

That's a beauty and in great shape!

 

[JeffInMass]

You said it best, you never know what to expect- nice find!!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your first 2 Cent piece. That one is in pretty nice shape.

 

[Jeff H]

Good one V. I would agree that it likely hitched a ride to the beach in some fill. It does have that "abandoned homestead coin find" patina look to it. On the other hand it also could have been right there for the last 150 years.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Just goes to show that anything can turn up any where.

Nice find too!

 

[WannaDig3687]

What a very pleasant surprise for you. Congratulations! I like your written account, also.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

My white wale! Congrats!!

 

[ArfieBoy]

Cool 2-cent piece! Congratulations! You never know for sure where the fill material comes from, so anything can be in it! Thanks for sharing.

 

[smokeythecat]

Cool! You know in the centuries I have detected I still don't think I ever found one and yours is especially nice. Go back and get the gold coins.

 

[washingtonian]

Congrats on a great coin!!

 

[Iron Buzz]

> I wish this coin could talk and give me it's two cents worth

Just wanted to let you know that I caught that. Haha!

I have found 6 two-centers in my 3 (or is it 4?) years of detecting, and not just one, but two of them were surface finds! The first one was just while walking a field without my detector. The 2nd one, I was detecting, but spotted it before swinging over it.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A great find - congrats !

 

[vferrari]

> I wish this coin could talk and give me it's two cents worth

Just wanted to let you know that I caught that. Haha!

I have found 6 two-centers in my 3 (or is it 4?) years of detecting, and not just one, but two of them were surface finds! The first one was just while walking a field without my detector. The 2nd one, I was detecting, but spotted it before swinging over it.

That's a pretty good number of 2 cent piece finds considering of the total 45.6M minted for circulation, 17M were returned/recalled by the mint and melted down.

 

[sprailroad]

It's what keeps me detecting for so many years, you just never know.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Nice find! As far as being brought in with fill dirt, nope. I’ve been corrected on forums that all fill dirt is first screened before dumped.

 

[Calabash Digger]

congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet old 2 cent piece, congrats!