Search for old homesite turns up 1875 Indian and gold gilded button!

[treblehunter]

Oldjerseygirl and I have been looking for an old homesite she found on an 1876 map overlay since last winter. We kept looking far from her house which the old map suggested was on one side or the other of an old spung/ swamp. We walked about an mile from her house (felt like) down these old ox cart roads yesterday only coming up with a ox shoe and headstamps. She found an Indian Head Cent about a week ago in this area, where there is also a property marker which looks very old. Last year on her own in a different section of these same woods, along one of these ox cart roads, she found a different Indian Head cent. This area was a old sandstone quarry/ mine used back in early 1800's.



Today we were not on the ox cart roads, like last year we were going through open woods searching along the way with our detectors for an iron patch. We were looking for awhile when we came up with nothing, had circled back wide to check some more in the direction of her house. When we were almost out (ten feet from her yard) she got a scratchy jumpy signal that she dug which turned out to be a 1875 Indian Head Cent.



We started looking in that area when I finally got a nice sounding shallow 82 - 84 hit on my Deus, it was in the yard in a spot that was frozen sand. It was like concrete, in the woods the leaves and pine needles leave the ground dig-able, here it took me quite a time to chip out this beautiful button. Any help dating this button would be appreciated.



I guess if the weather stays nice I'll be at Becky's tomorrow looking for more. All that time looking, the old homesite is right in her back yard.

Enjoy the pix
HH & GL
Brad

 

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[treblehunter]

Nice hunt bud good year on the IH...

Thanks.

Becky was close to a really, really good year, 1877 1877 1C MS Indian Cents | NGC

Here is hers, 1875
1875 1C MS Indian Cents | NGC

 

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[Scrappy]

I love the IH. Always a nice surprise

Thanks for the look. It warms my heart to see others digging pliable ground! Lol

 

[Don in SJ]

I tried to narrow your date down on the Robinson button a bit more since Tice's Dating Buttons book lists numerous date time frames and b/m for that company. The closest is when the company was known as Robinson, Hall & Company, 1832 - Ca. 1837 All the punctuation matches except yours has a small o in Co. The other choice is from when the company was called Richard Robinson & Company, 1813 -1828 which has several variations of the b/m all very close but again not exact. Toss up to which era in my opinion. Robinson buttons are known for coming out of the ground with lots of gilt left on them.

 

[smittyman]

Very nice and time well spent! Being able to get any treasure this time of year is a blessing but these are terrific!