Wildcat1750
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- Nov 18, 2012
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Garrett Pro-Pointer/Garrett Pro-Pointer AT/
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Back to my hunting spots at the Turn of the Last Century Park and a full morning of hunting. 
Scored a 2 coin spill on a steep trail. Had to work about 4" down under some roots to get at a very nice 1916-S Wheat Cent and a Buffalo Nickel with a barely legible date.
Elsewhere on the trail I found 2 matching parts of a ribbon buckle fairly close to each other. There are still traces of gold plating visible on a nice vintage design.
In some heavy underbrush at a remote and rocky end of the park was the Brooks Bros. button. According to Wikipedia.org, Brooks Brothers is the oldest retail brand and clothier in the U.S. and was founded in 1818 as a family business. This button appears to be rather old.
Having covered most of the trails, I began to scan an old growth thicket of mountain laurels that have yielded some nice Victorian age relics on previous hunts...
This is where I hit the last good target of the hunt... an 1878 Indian Head Cent. I knew it was an IHC but I was pleasantly surprised by the level of detail hidden under that layer of caked on dirt! It is a full LIBERTY with full detail on the feathers, diamonds on the ribbons, nicely detailed necklace, and Longacre's initial "L" clearly visible under magnification!
As might be expected, there is some pitting around the rim which can be expected after 142 years in the ground...
I just missed that 1877 by one year!
Happy Hunting & Thanks for looking!
Nick
Scored a 2 coin spill on a steep trail. Had to work about 4" down under some roots to get at a very nice 1916-S Wheat Cent and a Buffalo Nickel with a barely legible date.
Elsewhere on the trail I found 2 matching parts of a ribbon buckle fairly close to each other. There are still traces of gold plating visible on a nice vintage design.
In some heavy underbrush at a remote and rocky end of the park was the Brooks Bros. button. According to Wikipedia.org, Brooks Brothers is the oldest retail brand and clothier in the U.S. and was founded in 1818 as a family business. This button appears to be rather old.
Having covered most of the trails, I began to scan an old growth thicket of mountain laurels that have yielded some nice Victorian age relics on previous hunts...
This is where I hit the last good target of the hunt... an 1878 Indian Head Cent. I knew it was an IHC but I was pleasantly surprised by the level of detail hidden under that layer of caked on dirt! It is a full LIBERTY with full detail on the feathers, diamonds on the ribbons, nicely detailed necklace, and Longacre's initial "L" clearly visible under magnification!
As might be expected, there is some pitting around the rim which can be expected after 142 years in the ground...I just missed that 1877 by one year!
Happy Hunting & Thanks for looking!
Nick
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