Colonial Copper Zeus
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The three detectateers got out to one of Kyles new sites that he has been jibbering about all year. I got ahold of the landowner back in August and she said that since the crop was up we should wait until harvest. Well folks harvest has begun. After contacting her again just the other day she said she had time to discuss it with her husband and he was fine with it. I told her that we can't wait to show her the goodies recovered from her land. We began on a foggy sunday morning by scattering out in the field. Let me just say that the field we began hitting this morning is not the field that has Kyle chirping like a cricket in heat. 
That field still has crop in. I was humming along for about an hour when I got a signal that seems to me I have gotten a million times before. Penny / Dime on the analog meter. 4 inches deep was a nice 1801 Draped Bust Largie. The sun came out from the fog to warm it up to a comfortable 60 degrees as a smile got plastered to my jib. Dropped musketball here flat buttons there indicated that we were doing A- OK. 8) About another hour later I got a nice solid pulltab reading which turned out to be the K.G. III copper , not bad shape but a very thin obvious counterfeit. It still spent nicely i'm sure. A nice couple soon pulled their car up and began asking questions about what we were finding and proceeded to tell me that they both grew up in the area and would be glad to give us some sites that might do well for us. After talking to them for a while and thanking them very much I was off again. About 20 minutes and more dropped musketballs later I got another very familiar signal. Another Draped bust large cent. It looks to me to be an 1807.This ended my hunt for the day. 3 coppers today, 6 coppers today for the group, 24 coppers for the year for Zeus, 51 coppers this year for the group. Not bad if I do say so myself. 
Thanks everyone.
Chris
That field still has crop in. I was humming along for about an hour when I got a signal that seems to me I have gotten a million times before. Penny / Dime on the analog meter. 4 inches deep was a nice 1801 Draped Bust Largie. The sun came out from the fog to warm it up to a comfortable 60 degrees as a smile got plastered to my jib. Dropped musketball here flat buttons there indicated that we were doing A- OK. 8) About another hour later I got a nice solid pulltab reading which turned out to be the K.G. III copper , not bad shape but a very thin obvious counterfeit. It still spent nicely i'm sure. A nice couple soon pulled their car up and began asking questions about what we were finding and proceeded to tell me that they both grew up in the area and would be glad to give us some sites that might do well for us. After talking to them for a while and thanking them very much I was off again. About 20 minutes and more dropped musketballs later I got another very familiar signal. Another Draped bust large cent. It looks to me to be an 1807.This ended my hunt for the day. 3 coppers today, 6 coppers today for the group, 24 coppers for the year for Zeus, 51 coppers this year for the group. Not bad if I do say so myself. Thanks everyone.Chris
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) I believe the savior in the condition of the coppers in our wooded sites is the fact the soil drains very fast, being so sandy, but if in a low area, they can be worst than any farm field find..................
.....Helluva Hunt Bud!!! 
