kimsdad
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- Apr 17, 2008
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This key IH is so bad the Indian was embarrassed & left!
I went to a small town to visit my daughter & her family. Of course while I was there, I had to do a little hunting. My son-in-law had arranged for several sites to hunt.
There was an old railroad depot that had been torn down & was now a grass covered site. This spot was so loaded with aluminum - I think they got the fill from the Alcoa Company! 
I was finding shiny new pop cans at 8". I had limited time to hunt with all of the family things going on, so I put that on hold and drove around the town & found a crew tearing out the sidewalks & parking area in front of the school. 
DesPlaines_IL_SilverBob & Watercolor told me never to pass that opportunity up, so I fired up the DFX. After finding a bunch of iron from the old reinforcing mesh, I got a solid hit and dug an ugly green disc that had been churned up and was only an inch down in the mud. Indian Head!
The only reason I knew it was an Indian head was because I had seen other posts on TreasureNet with similar photos. The construction workers were really cool about me hunting there, but when they looked at it, they couldn't understand my excitement (I don't think Mrs. Kimsdad did either). As you can see, no part of the original metal was visible.
I decided I had nothing to lose on this coin and tried hot peroxide. Over the course of five days, the crud slowly began to dissolve, and the coin gave up it's date. I've been working on it with peroxide again to see if I can get any more detail to show. This is it so far. Unfortunately, there is a big pit right where the Indian should be, and it will never come back. So, it's somewhat of a key date coin, but probably not worth anything because of its condition. Since it's my first IH and my first coin from the 1800's, it's worth a lot more to me.
I never would have recognized this coin or known about hot peroxide to clean it if not for T-Netters, and I never would have believed that it would work so well. I also found a cute little bird charm or part of a ring under the same concrete. At a vacant lot, I found a copper plate embossed with a cowboy roping a steer (belt buckle insert?) and a red lens in a metal holder. Nothing great, but that's how it goes sometimes.
We've got some more sites to hit out there when it gets cooler. One has a lot of potential, but at first swing it looks like the town had a can shredding contest there.
It'll take a while to get all that aluminum out of that hard-packed dirt before we can get to deeper signals. I left my son-in-law my Land Star so he can learn it and get ready for the next trip. (Hopefully he'll use it to clear cans from the site.) This was some hard digging. I take my hat off to all of you hard core hunters who work like dogs in the bugs and heat to extract treasure for the rest of us to see! Thanks for checking out my headless Indian!
I went to a small town to visit my daughter & her family. Of course while I was there, I had to do a little hunting. My son-in-law had arranged for several sites to hunt.
There was an old railroad depot that had been torn down & was now a grass covered site. This spot was so loaded with aluminum - I think they got the fill from the Alcoa Company! I was finding shiny new pop cans at 8". I had limited time to hunt with all of the family things going on, so I put that on hold and drove around the town & found a crew tearing out the sidewalks & parking area in front of the school. DesPlaines_IL_SilverBob & Watercolor told me never to pass that opportunity up, so I fired up the DFX. After finding a bunch of iron from the old reinforcing mesh, I got a solid hit and dug an ugly green disc that had been churned up and was only an inch down in the mud. Indian Head!
The only reason I knew it was an Indian head was because I had seen other posts on TreasureNet with similar photos. The construction workers were really cool about me hunting there, but when they looked at it, they couldn't understand my excitement (I don't think Mrs. Kimsdad did either). As you can see, no part of the original metal was visible. I decided I had nothing to lose on this coin and tried hot peroxide. Over the course of five days, the crud slowly began to dissolve, and the coin gave up it's date. I've been working on it with peroxide again to see if I can get any more detail to show. This is it so far. Unfortunately, there is a big pit right where the Indian should be, and it will never come back. So, it's somewhat of a key date coin, but probably not worth anything because of its condition. Since it's my first IH and my first coin from the 1800's, it's worth a lot more to me.
I never would have recognized this coin or known about hot peroxide to clean it if not for T-Netters, and I never would have believed that it would work so well. I also found a cute little bird charm or part of a ring under the same concrete. At a vacant lot, I found a copper plate embossed with a cowboy roping a steer (belt buckle insert?) and a red lens in a metal holder. Nothing great, but that's how it goes sometimes.
We've got some more sites to hit out there when it gets cooler. One has a lot of potential, but at first swing it looks like the town had a can shredding contest there.
It'll take a while to get all that aluminum out of that hard-packed dirt before we can get to deeper signals. I left my son-in-law my Land Star so he can learn it and get ready for the next trip. (Hopefully he'll use it to clear cans from the site.) This was some hard digging. I take my hat off to all of you hard core hunters who work like dogs in the bugs and heat to extract treasure for the rest of us to see! Thanks for checking out my headless Indian!
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