dwayne sueno
Bronze Member
A "Large" Year
90% of these finds come from one 400 acre property along the hudson river in upstate new york. I use a white's dfx, a white's silver eagle and a minelab se.
I found 36 large coppers this year. 34 are pictured here. i'm no expert on identification, but i will try to cover some of the high points. the first is a william III 1690's halfpenny. there are two george I "dump issue" halfpennies from the late 17teens, a cull hibernia/rosa americana-type copper, many george II counterfeit halfpennies, and one machin's mills counterfeit halfpenny from newburgh, ny, i believe. My oldest US copper of the year is a 1798 draped bust. There are several draped busts here, one classic bust from 1813, several coronet coppers, two hard-times tokens from 1837, and two braided hairs. The last coin pictured was found at a colonial site, but has no distinguishing markings except milled edges...
Here are some of the nicer silver coins from the year. There are two one reals, and three half reals. The trade dollar was in the middle of a large field, and i wouldn't have found it except that i was walking home with the dfx on and trailing on the ground. I thought it was going to be a lost tractor part...
The bust half-dime sounded terrible on the dfx, but there weren't many signals and every signal seemed to be an old coin at this one particular site. I dug an 1865 2 cent piece that isn't pictured here (gave it to a hunting buddy) and an 1866 shield nickel (pictured later) in the same hole at this site, and both sounded bad.
The darker disc between the seated half dime and the seated dime is a counterfeit 1842 seated dime that should never have been found. I was way out in the woods along a creek and under a modern tree-stand, and was digging nothing but shotgun shells. after five or six low-conductivity hits that proved to be casings, i got another hit that sounded a "little" different. Or maybe it didn't...
Here's some 2 centers, some nickels, my only flying eagle of the year, an 1857, a few "fatty" copper indians, a couple of nice bronze indians and two 1870's indians.
Here's a few relics from the year. the second row is all buttons from the war of 1812, found at one of my most productive sites, an old house site that has been ploughed for the last two hundred years, leaving no visual clues of it's existence. one day i stumbled upon an iron patch...
Happy hunting, Dwayne
90% of these finds come from one 400 acre property along the hudson river in upstate new york. I use a white's dfx, a white's silver eagle and a minelab se.
I found 36 large coppers this year. 34 are pictured here. i'm no expert on identification, but i will try to cover some of the high points. the first is a william III 1690's halfpenny. there are two george I "dump issue" halfpennies from the late 17teens, a cull hibernia/rosa americana-type copper, many george II counterfeit halfpennies, and one machin's mills counterfeit halfpenny from newburgh, ny, i believe. My oldest US copper of the year is a 1798 draped bust. There are several draped busts here, one classic bust from 1813, several coronet coppers, two hard-times tokens from 1837, and two braided hairs. The last coin pictured was found at a colonial site, but has no distinguishing markings except milled edges...
Here are some of the nicer silver coins from the year. There are two one reals, and three half reals. The trade dollar was in the middle of a large field, and i wouldn't have found it except that i was walking home with the dfx on and trailing on the ground. I thought it was going to be a lost tractor part...
The bust half-dime sounded terrible on the dfx, but there weren't many signals and every signal seemed to be an old coin at this one particular site. I dug an 1865 2 cent piece that isn't pictured here (gave it to a hunting buddy) and an 1866 shield nickel (pictured later) in the same hole at this site, and both sounded bad.
The darker disc between the seated half dime and the seated dime is a counterfeit 1842 seated dime that should never have been found. I was way out in the woods along a creek and under a modern tree-stand, and was digging nothing but shotgun shells. after five or six low-conductivity hits that proved to be casings, i got another hit that sounded a "little" different. Or maybe it didn't...
Here's some 2 centers, some nickels, my only flying eagle of the year, an 1857, a few "fatty" copper indians, a couple of nice bronze indians and two 1870's indians.
Here's a few relics from the year. the second row is all buttons from the war of 1812, found at one of my most productive sites, an old house site that has been ploughed for the last two hundred years, leaving no visual clues of it's existence. one day i stumbled upon an iron patch...
Happy hunting, Dwayne
Hope you have a better year next year 
RR
