Short evening hunt nets a beautiful 1731 KG II and my daughter finds first CW bullet!

[matt092079]

I had an itching to go detecting today and I got my fix. Went out in the hot sun around 3:30 and started the hunt by finding a nice gray flat based sharps and a nice gray 3 ringer. Down in this lower bottom of the field, the bullets don't have the white patina like normal. My 3rd best target was this beauty of a KG II! This is my oldest copper and coincidentally, my best condition colonial copper. My wife called and I told her to bring my daughter out so she could see the cow and sheep. My wife and her got there and they went to look at the cows. I met up with them and walked side by side and I got a good ole signal and my daughter got to see and hold a nice 3 ringer bullet. Doesn't get better than that, does it? I'll post pics of all finds, but for now here's a before and after of the KG II. Thanks for looking and HH!

 

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[333Demon333]

Awesome finds! Congrats

 

[joeyfresh]

Holy cow Matt, that KGII is in great condition!! Your daughter's a cutie too.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Ok, you win! Nice Find!

 

[testing123]

wow, what a beautiful coin. How'd you clean it?

 

[Greylock]

Wish my coppers would come out like that. Nice

 

[matt092079]

Holy cow Matt, that KGII is in great condition!! Your daughter's a cutie too.

Thanks, Joey! Wish they all came out that way. Last one I dug on Sunday was blank on both sides!

 

[matt092079]

wow, what a beautiful coin. How'd you clean it?

Thank you. Hot peroxide bath until the "fizzing" slowed down, rinsed with cold tap water and wiped with q-tips. Then rubbed aquaphor(for babies bottoms, kinda like a petroleum jelly) on the coin with a q-tip. Really brought out the detail. Mind you I wouldn't normally use a cleaning method such as this on copper, but I could see there was nice detail with a nice thick patina so I went for it. So don't hold me to that method! lol

 

[VaMark]

That's cool! The coin is in amazing shape and you got to spend some quality time with your family to!

 

[flyinryan2]

Congrats man. The lower corner is an awesome spot, can't wait to go back out. Father's Day coming up. I'd say that would be a great Father's Day gift.

 

[goldnugget]

Thanks for the information on cleaning that copper. I've tried so many thing this month on some of my Finds. Thats 2 Nice Keepers in the photo's. Check out my greenies I just posted on the Beach Forum. goldnugget

 

[Evolution]

I love the pics of that coin fresh out of the ground. That emerald green patina is awesome!

 

[BadM0nkey]

Awesome. I found $.39 clad today.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Awesome. I found $.39 clad today.

You did better than I did. I got $.13 cents. Why didn't you post your finds! I did!

 

[Jeff95531]

1731?!! OMG That's fantastic! 282 years old and from the looks of it, lost the whole time. What a find!

 

[BadM0nkey]

You did better than I did. I got $.13 cents. Why didn't you post your finds! I did!

Not cool enough. I think my pint of bottlecaps and pulltabs was cooler but I threw them away at the beach.

 

[VOL1266-X]

Very nice coin Matt and you will never forget the day with your daughter. WTG, Q.

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[JohnnyMac]

Wow that's in great shape?

 

[silversurfer1111]

awesome