Quite A Day!

[foreverteachable]

It was quite an afternoon. After school I  planted some shrubs, painted some chairs, and replaced our central air filters. I was waiting for the bulldozers to leave one of the last cornfields in town so I could save some history before it was lost forever to another housing development. The workers were still there so I fished the river for a while and caught my biggest walleye ever on my fly rod. I then headed back to dig with only a half an hour of light left and I started finding treasures right away. I metal detected in the dark for an hour or two and came away with four coins and 6 buttons. It is important to try to make everyday count. If anybody knows what type of coins they are I would much appreciate to know ?

 

 

[Flowdog]

58 minutes ago, foreverteachable said:

It was quite an afternoon.

The understatement of the year! Fantastic way to live an afternoon. Congrats on your finds. BTW, where did you catch that fish? ?

 

[groundscanner]

Fantastic!  Sounds like you had a full day.

[foreverteachable]

9 hours ago, Flowdog said:

The understatement of the year! Fantastic way to live an afternoon. Congrats on your finds. BTW, where did you catch that fish? ?

 

Thanks a bunch! I caught it in the Mohawk River in Clifton Park, NY.

[foreverteachable]

10 hours ago, phrunt said:

Wow, is that coin from 1780 something? looks like it from where I sit, what a fantastic find!

Thanks for the story too, sounds like a fun afternoon.

 

The Connecticut Colonial copper coin was from 1787. I had never found one before and I'm actually from Connecticut originally and I found two in one day I can't believe it. The other coin I believe is a georgius triumpho from 1783 or around that time. It is really hard to detect in my town because the ground is all sand and even modern coins can be found down 8-inches or so so all the old stuff is really deep unless you go to a plowed field. I found six coppers in this cornfield last year and they're going to build up on it in a few days so it's nice that the bulldozers helped me uncover some more before it was gone.

[foreverteachable]

48 minutes ago, groundscanner said:

Fantastic!  Sounds like you had a full day.

Thanks a bunch!

[schoolofhardNox]

Great finds. 2 Connecticut coppers, a nice Tombac button and I believe your other copper is a British George III copper. Some of those British coppers can be counterfeits too, so a little research on the date should help you. Also, counterfeits ring up much lower on your machine. It's either a half penny or a farthing. Nice digs.

[Cal_Cobra]

Very nice colonial era coppers!!  I'd probably detected there all night ?

[foreverteachable]

10 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Great finds. 2 Connecticut coppers, a nice Tombac button and I believe your other copper is a British George III copper. Some of those British coppers can be counterfeits too, so a little research on the date should help you. Also, counterfeits ring up much lower on your machine. It's either a half penny or a farthing. Nice digs.

Thanks a bunch!

[foreverteachable]

5 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Very nice colonial era coppers!!  I'd probably detected there all night ?

I wanted to but my phone was dead and my wife would have worried ? I went today in the snow and found a button and a musketball but that was it.