tmanfromtexas
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Hi everybody!!! I dont post my finds much since my digital camera quit working. Posting finds without a pic is like taking a bath without soap imo so I just sit back and look at all the nice finds everyone else posts. (I will get a camera soon though). Thanks to GOIO for taking the pics. They turned out great buddy. Today he and I hit a park in Chicago. Its been hunted pretty hard but we figured what the heck. About 15 minutes into the hunt I got a sweet little signal on my etrac and out popped a barber dime. I was really happy. I told Greg what I found and we kept swinging and diggin. After about an hour of not finding much I got a broken 10-47 on the etrac at about 6 inches. Woohoo, maybe a quarter. I opened the hole and stuck the probe in. 8-42 was the reading. Well I said a few expletives thinking I had a memorial. I kept digging and out popped this dark disk. It was bigger than a quarter so i was thinking half. The problem was it was dark all over. I thought to myself that is strange, it should show some silver somewhere, until I looked at the front real close and saw the bust of Liberty. I couldnt believe that I had found a large cent. I took it over to Greg smiling. He knew something was up and looked at me like "what did you find this time TMAN?" I showed him the coin and he said half? I said no large cent. He looked at me like I looked at the coin the first time. He went to watch my stuff while I washed it off. It was minted in 1845. It turned out that there was a memorial in the hole too above the large cent. We continued to hunt and I found a merc and an indian along with some other stuff. I told him that all I needed was the flying cent and I would have the grand slam of pennies but it wasnt meant to be this time. We had a good day overall and as always it is good to get out with my hunting buddy. Thanks for looking and HH!!!
it'll be very hard to top that one off 
Big congrats for finding that BIG cent T-Man....... 
