dwayne sueno
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Sweet 1856 Seated Quarter and a Loaf of Toasty LC's
found these in three different fields this week over five hunts.
today i returned with the se to a house site i discovered earlier in the week and managed to pull an 1853 LC out of some wet ground. i've had a mini-streak of undateable LC's recently, so it was nice to finally see some numbers on a copper.
yesterday, at the same site, i got a totally toasted copper that has no surface features left, but based on it's thinness, i'd say it's a KGII or III counterfeit. this was, at the time, the fifth undated LC i'd pulled out this week, so i started thinking it would be nice to find some silver that was perhaps a bit more well-preserved. perhaps i should think like that more often... not long after the LC, i got a deeeep silver signal, cut a monster plug, and right at the bottom of the plug was sitting this sweet '56 seated quarter. i was pleased.
a little earlier in the week, i pulled the draped bust half cent out at my favorite hunting ground, an old house site that has not produced any coins more recent than 1809. i think this one is a stemless 1806, but i can't make out the last number for sure. this was one of those signals that was deep in the iron, and sounded more like iron falsing than not, but i dug it anyway, and was pleasantly surprised to hear some high-pitched notes when i got the probe down in the hole.
and the day before that, i went to a field that has produced some nice relics and two 1 reals in the past, but no coppers. hit a different spot in the field, and got these two not far away from each other, and both quite deep, 8-10". one looks to be a classic head, and the other has been pounded out to half dollar size, and has even had some reeding cut into part of the edge. it seems that someone was thinking of making a counterfeit half, but decided that their craftmanship was wanting midway through the project. who knows?
all-in-all a good week, warmish, and not too many ticks, to boot.
found these in three different fields this week over five hunts.
today i returned with the se to a house site i discovered earlier in the week and managed to pull an 1853 LC out of some wet ground. i've had a mini-streak of undateable LC's recently, so it was nice to finally see some numbers on a copper.
yesterday, at the same site, i got a totally toasted copper that has no surface features left, but based on it's thinness, i'd say it's a KGII or III counterfeit. this was, at the time, the fifth undated LC i'd pulled out this week, so i started thinking it would be nice to find some silver that was perhaps a bit more well-preserved. perhaps i should think like that more often... not long after the LC, i got a deeeep silver signal, cut a monster plug, and right at the bottom of the plug was sitting this sweet '56 seated quarter. i was pleased.
a little earlier in the week, i pulled the draped bust half cent out at my favorite hunting ground, an old house site that has not produced any coins more recent than 1809. i think this one is a stemless 1806, but i can't make out the last number for sure. this was one of those signals that was deep in the iron, and sounded more like iron falsing than not, but i dug it anyway, and was pleasantly surprised to hear some high-pitched notes when i got the probe down in the hole.
and the day before that, i went to a field that has produced some nice relics and two 1 reals in the past, but no coppers. hit a different spot in the field, and got these two not far away from each other, and both quite deep, 8-10". one looks to be a classic head, and the other has been pounded out to half dollar size, and has even had some reeding cut into part of the edge. it seems that someone was thinking of making a counterfeit half, but decided that their craftmanship was wanting midway through the project. who knows?
all-in-all a good week, warmish, and not too many ticks, to boot.
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