Tumbled some dirty wheats, found a Flying Eagle

[fistfulladirt]

Well I'm not much of a jewelry hunter, but I really wanted to get a piece of gold before the year's end. So, I hit two county park lake turf areas last weekend, and on Christmas eve, and out of three 2-hr hunts, I dug a few, half .925, half junk. And one tiny 14K pendant, that I eyeballed, so it really doesn't count lol.

I really had to work the pulltabs and couldn't believe when I squeaked out the Barber dime about 10 feet from the shoreline.

I also dug two pennies that were stuck together, and tossed them into the tumbler with about 20 wheats that I also dug on the lake. Imagine my surprise when I pulled them out, still stuck together. An 1880 IH stuck to an 1858 flying eagle! Really toasty and it was stuck face-in, the only thing that saved it.

 

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[testing123]

nice saves! And that pendant counts!

 

[Z.K.]

Are you kidding me? An IH and FE sandwich?? Never heard the like. Very cool assortment of finds.

 

[cooper1841]

Nice finds................still waiting on my first Barber of any kind!!

 

[against the wind]

Really nice haul.
The Flying Eagle is a bucket lister for me.
Congrats on a sweet hunt.

 

[Subterranean]

Heck yes the pendant counts as your gold find! What a great set of hunts with cool prizes, congrats. Sub

 

[Nepa-Will]

Great stuff! Awesome job pulling that Flying Eagle! It looks much better then the ones I have found. Congrats

 

[Loco-Digger]

That is awesome, getting a FE and not knowing it. Last summer I was cleaning wheats or so I thought, ended up finding an indian in the bunch from the day's hunt. You sure did score in the bling and old coin departments. The FE still eludes my coil.