Todays

[absosecur]

This is todays remembrance. Riding near my home i passed by an old run down place that 30 yrs ago was a bait shop. I met an old gentleman 30 some odd yrs ago one morning while eating breakfast as i was talking about my new found hobby of detecting. At that time he was in his mid to late 80's. So he proceeds to ask me if i am familiar with this same bait shop and i said yes. He told me that as a young boy he lived near that bait shop which was a home back then. He was born around 1900 give or take a few years. He told me that when he was young he would always pretend that he was George Washington and would also pretend that he was tossing a rock across the Potomac river. It gets good right here. He said his father had a 2 or 2 1/2 gallon milk pail in the parents closet and his father had filled it to the top with large cent pieces. That is where he would go to get handfuls of the large cents when his father wasn't there and those were his pretend rocks he was tossing across the Potomac. The great news is he told me how many homes down the street he lived from the bait shop. Even better is the bait shop is there now, enough of the homes are still there for me to determine where his home was and all that area behind the homes has never been cut or cleared so it should be as simple as getting my grandson to toss something of comparable size and weight and see how far it goes and i should easily start pulling these things up. Living in mississippi we don't see a lot of large cent pieces. I did find one around 2 yrs ago and i actually posted it on here and you guys were great help in identifying it for me. So I'm pretty sure anyone who has read this will say what are you waiting on get out there. Am i correct?This is 100 percent a true story. Are any of the large cent pieces worth any money like key dates and such. That really doesn't matter because I'm all over it regardless. I look forward to posting success and results with y'all before too long.

HH
Howard

 

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[trapperart]

Nice story and good luck

 

[Wildcat1750]

Those are the kinds of stories and local lore that get me all fired up and eager to hunt such a spot. It matters not whether they are worth big $ or key dates. A concentration of Large Cents like that would be a huge find in my book. Good luck!

 

[absosecur]

I agree. This hobby has never been about money or worth of items found by me. It the thrill of the hunt. Comradery of friends and my two grandsons and the excitement of a goodie peeping out of a hole at you.