Day 1 Amazing Woods Site - likely ancient logging camp

mdmike

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Have been to this wooded site 2x before, thinking there had to be something going on there, but came up with just a few brass doodads and many shotgun shells and bullets. Today was different, started out finding a 3 Cent Silver which made me go into thorough mode. After another 1/2 hour came a large cent... then an hour later, "the mother load"... started finding 3 cent nickels and more three cent silver pieces, dimes, half dimes (maybe 1/2 reales) more large cents, half cents then this 1834 Half Dollar... i brushed it off with soap and water and its a gem. Have to admit, i felt a little guilty finding all this stuff... its like 30 lifetime finds in a few hours .... there were no Indian heads, so this was probably pre-cw or thereabouts.

Update, including Day 2: Dont judge a book by its cover... cleaned the dirt off these coins... seems to be a wider spread in dates and some post CW. 11 Large Cents, 2 Two Cent pcs., 9 Three Cent Nickels, 7 Three Cent Silvers, 4 Half Dimes, 1 Dime, 5 Canadian silvers. Why so many 3 Cent pieces?
 

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WOW!!!! Awesome finds!!!! Congrats!!
 

What a beaut!!! Great save!
 

Banner Finds Spread them out. Lets see em all!
 

Drooling again....you must have been beside yourself...would love to see what the others look like once cleaned up...congratulations!
 

Ummm wow :occasion14:

Dream site
 

Congrats man! What an awesome day! :occasion14:

That half dollar is a beauty! Let’s see some of the other coins!
 

Very nice silver. Small date/stars/lettering variety
 

Outstanding hunt mdmike. That capped bust half dollar is a stunner! I wouldn't feel guilty at all. You put in the time and effort to find that site...you earned it.
PS- Please, please please post pictures of all of your coins when cleaned up. I would love to see them.
 

Wow what a motherload, clean the rest of that silver up and let’s see it all laid out!
 

That is one sweet coin and those others too yet. You're very fortunate, huge congratulations but as others said let's see good photos of them also.
 

Amazing is right! That Capped half is awesome! Would love to see those 3-centers as I'm 30+ years into my THing career without finding one of either type.
 

what a haul, big time gratz and love that half dollar
 

An ancient logging camp. I was expecting to see some rusty iron, old logging tools.
 

Very Nice 1/2 Dollar, cant wait to see what the other look like. Very nice saves!!
 

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