testing123
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Yesterday was in the 30s, but still not too uncomfortable. Good time to get out
and finish up the place that yielded the barber half. Started off kind of slow
with a couple of wheats and eventually a 1946 Roosie comes out!
Later, began working over the area that yielded most of the wheat cents from the first
visit. Assuming there wouldn't be much, I was kind of shocked to see more wheat
cents pop out. So much for assuming that area was clean after the first sweep.
It seemed like I never even hit this area... kind of concerning about what I've
missed at other places. Maybe it was because I was working it from a different
direction? In the end, got 16 wheat cents - most from that area. Sometime in
that space (the previously covered area), I got another wheat-cent-like signal.
Dug down probably 6 inches or so, but saw a large copper coin appear instead of
another wheat
No idea what it was then and there, but upon getting it home,
it looks to be an 1807 Great Britain Halfpenny. What an odd coin to pull out.
Who knows if it was lost in the 1800s, or if it was a pocket piece in the 1940s
or so, which was the rough dates of the wheat cents found. Weigh is 8.4
grams.
Was hoping it was a U.S. coin, but it still certainly beats
another wheat cent!
Hoping this wasn't the last hunt of the year, but it
just might be with the colder weather approaching.
HH all!
and finish up the place that yielded the barber half. Started off kind of slow
with a couple of wheats and eventually a 1946 Roosie comes out!
Later, began working over the area that yielded most of the wheat cents from the first
visit. Assuming there wouldn't be much, I was kind of shocked to see more wheat
cents pop out. So much for assuming that area was clean after the first sweep.
It seemed like I never even hit this area... kind of concerning about what I've
missed at other places. Maybe it was because I was working it from a different
direction? In the end, got 16 wheat cents - most from that area. Sometime in
that space (the previously covered area), I got another wheat-cent-like signal.
Dug down probably 6 inches or so, but saw a large copper coin appear instead of
another wheat
No idea what it was then and there, but upon getting it home, it looks to be an 1807 Great Britain Halfpenny. What an odd coin to pull out.
Who knows if it was lost in the 1800s, or if it was a pocket piece in the 1940s
or so, which was the rough dates of the wheat cents found. Weigh is 8.4
grams.
Was hoping it was a U.S. coin, but it still certainly beats
another wheat cent!
Hoping this wasn't the last hunt of the year, but it
just might be with the colder weather approaching.
HH all!
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