~1857 Flying Eagle from the cornfield~

[Goes4ever]

Today I met up with Kyle (Nooberz) for some field hunting, started off with 22 degrees and frozen hard ground! We literally had to chip away at the dirt with our lesche's shovel were almost worthless to start. Finally it slowly warmed up and the sun came out about 11am. The first field I got 2 flat button and that was it, basically no conductive signals at all. On to the second field site where I got the 2 piece button, looks like it has a dog head on it, can anyone tell me anything from the backmark? I only got that button and a couple pieces of scrap, another signal-less field. Kyle nabbed a large copper there and that was the only coin found in that field.


We then went to the 3rd field, by now it was around 30 degrees and the sun was starting to warm us up, much appreciated. I got a solid 12-24 screaming at me, and less than a 1/2 inch deep..... I found a coin, I thought I had a fatty indian when I saw the one cent on the back, but when I flipped it over and saw the eagle and the date I knew I had a flying eagle! This is my 5th flying eagle cent now in 6 yrs of detecting, made my day, as this turned out being the ONLY coin I found! Kyle got another largie at this site and couple indians, just wasn't my day for coins, so sure glad the only one I dug was a GOOD one!

 

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[bountyhuntergirl86]

Love the flying eagle and 2 piece button great job... cornfields drive me crazy sometimes... any ideas on the best way to confront cornfields..

 

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[Scotdixon]

Lovin it my man

 

[copperpenny]

Nice digs !!!!!

 

[dtiger2k]

Nice finds, I'm still hoping for my first anything besides clad and tabs :-)

 

[poorman15]

Do you all just hunt random fields or try to find ones that once had buildings or places of previous gathering spots?

 

[Goes4ever]

Love the flying eagle and 2 piece button great job... cornfields drive me crazy sometimes... any ideas on the best way to confront cornfields..

well I use my small small and go down the rows, back and forth

Do you all just hunt random fields or try to find ones that once had buildings or places of previous gathering spots?

not random fields, we look at old maps and locate old homesites

 

[granthansen]

Nice finds, I'm still hoping for my first anything besides clad and tabs :-)

Good finds will come, without a doubt. As will more clad and pull tabs!

 

[poorman15]

Thanks for the reply. I seached part of an old house yesterday that is still used and came up with an old skeleton key, a 1940 quarter and a 44 mer and a wheaty + tons on modern memorials and clad coins. So much ground to cover and so little time. I hunted for about 4 hours and it seemed like 10 minutes. I get lost in time when I am metal detecting. Such a great hobby and cheap one all the equipment is purchased. I use a Garrett GTI 2500 and a garrett pinpointeer. The pinpointer is a life saver. Found my quarter with it. Had already taken it out of the hole and never saw it. Sure beats waving hand fulls of dirt over the coil. Thanks again for the reply.

 

[DJWEHAGE]

wow that is a sweet one! here is one I dug in 2011....has some awesome details and has a odd light green patina...I say odd because most all copper nickel indians and flying eagles normally come out of the ground red, like yours
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Both are in awesome shape for being dug. I have found 2 or 3 of them and they were not nearly in as good as shape!

 

[WHADIFIND]

wow that is a sweet one! here is one I dug in 2011....has some awesome details and has a odd light green patina...I say odd because most all copper nickel indians and flying eagles normally come out of the ground red, like yours
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Wow! Yeah yours is a VERY nice one! It also shows me something I wondered about. If you notice, mine has the word America just about gone. Yours does too. I guess that is a mint mistake. Neat!

HH!

 

[wheatfinder13]

Great job again, g4e

 

[TiBorn]

As an eagle lover I would say that's a cool find regardless but the fact of the matter is, I've never seen one of those "flying eagle cents" and that peaked my interest. Great find!

 

[artyfacts]

Flying high, great save. Not to bad of shape compared to the ones I have dug.

 

[nsdq]

nice diggs the fe looks nice the button with dog is cool

 

[Goes4ever]

Wow! Yeah yours is a VERY nice one! It also shows me something I wondered about. If you notice, mine has the word America just about gone. Yours does too. I guess that is a mint mistake. Neat!

HH!

I never even noticed that. Thanks for mentioning it

 

[SilverDreams]

Amazing!

 

[dimedigger]

great find and great shape for a field. the fertilizer really does a number on coins

 

[birdman]

Very nice! You don't see many of those dug.

 

[detroitdigger]

Those are awesome finds.