VTSwinger
Jr. Member
- May 5, 2017
- 90
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT PRO
XP DEUS 2
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Got the chance to hunt a 1840's farm house that the owner suspected was a rebuild on an older home site. I spent several hours pulling trash with not so much as even a button for my troubles. Every hole seemed to have a giant piece of iron at the bottom making discriminating and even pin pointing near impossible. I decided to leave the area of the house and walked towards the road in hopes of finding an area less riddled with trash. No sooner did the iron targets disappear I get my first tight coin signal. It's a toasted silver! At the time I had no idea what it was, I suspected it was a real but knowing I had less than 30 minutes on the site left, I didn't want to waste any time trying to figure it out. I started doing wider and wider laps around the hole and the next target I dug was a 1803 draped bust cent! I continued to hit the area hard but that's all she had for me that day. My first 1 Real and first draped bust large cent (my oldest US coin to date) within a matter 10 minutes out of 5 hours of hunting. The nature of metal detecting is a weird one.
Is it safe to say that the site is older than the date of the house or would these coins still be in circulation into the 1840's? I know there is no true way of knowing but what's your hunch?
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Is it safe to say that the site is older than the date of the house or would these coins still be in circulation into the 1840's? I know there is no true way of knowing but what's your hunch?
![20190609_135729.jpg 20190609_135729.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1573/1573738-334796e578a37a46b23a4155a0c8bab4.jpg)
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