Half Cent, Flying Eagle, Large Cent, Merc and more

[Steve in PA]

I was able to get out a couple times over the weekend and found a few things. First site is a mid 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century tavern site that I have pounded pretty hard over the last year. I managed to get an 1835 half cent in decent condition, a flying eagle cent in not so nice condition, a thimble, a button, a drawer pull escutcheon, and a chain out of there.
The other site was an old iron furnace that operated from 1809 to 1826. There was later activity on the site from the early 20[SUP]th[/SUP] century up till today. I got a mixed bag of stuff from this site, including a bunch of modern coins not pictured, but the only furnace period finds were a couple buttons and a toasted large cent. One of the buttons has a nice basket weave pattern.

I like the half cent the best. I've dug at least 25 half cents over the years, but most have been Draped Bust. This 1835 is the latest date one I have found.


I'm sure I have swung over this coin a dozen times, but there is a lot of trash at this site and it was straight up and down on edge.


Another weak signal turned out to be this Flying Eagle


My brother and I spent a few hours yesterday hunting around this old iron furnace.


We were mainly finding modern coins - my first hole was a 1920-D Mercury Dime. Towards the end of the hunt I got mixed signal, opened up a hole and saw this - Big Coppa! Unfortunately it's pretty toasted.


Here are all the keepers minus the modern coins and a few other things.

 

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[park pirate]

Outstanding hunt...

 

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[Truth]

Steve what a dream hunt. Congratulations on you array of bucket listers for this good ol boy.

 

[VTColonialDigger]

Those are some really great finds! The coppers are really cool. The item (round piece of brass with square hole in it) at the lower left of your picture of all the finds looks like a part of a drawer pull off a really old piece of furniture, if that's what it is, it's probably 1700's.

 

[Gridwalker306]

Heck of a hunt, congrats on the coveted half cent and flying eagle

 

[Steve in PA]

Those are some really great finds! The coppers are really cool. The item (round piece of brass with square hole in it) at the lower left of your picture of all the finds looks like a part of a drawer pull off a really old piece of furniture, if that's what it is, it's probably 1700's.

Thanks VTCD! I believe it's a drawer pull escutcheon. I have found similar ones on mid 19th century sites, but this one appears to be cast, as opposed to stamped like the other ones I've found. I'm not really sure as to their age.

 

[A2coins]

Beautiful half cent you got a lot of my bucketlisters, Thanks for the great post I like reading the stories along with the finds Well done

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice Hunt!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[The Dirt Pirate]

Awesome.

 

[Calabash Digger]

nice digs!