John Oliver

Glad I could help! Best of luck this detecting season!

Oh yeah, GB... I also found this cool suspender clip with a turtle on it near the 1870 IHP in the same park, same day.

Thanks GB, It is one of the fun years for sure. A few years ago I found a really, really nice 1870 shallow N Indian head cent in a city park along with a gold cufflink and three percussion caps. With the environmental damage of being a dug coin, I don't know if it would be worth having it graded or not.

Thanks RvPopeye, I think Karma can come in good and bad varieties. It's good to have a bunch of good karma in the bank. Maybe when those kids get older they may run out of good memories, and need to think back of finding treasure...

Thank you Valens Legacy. I like the word Legacy in your name. Legacies don't have to be expensive. Sometimes I do stuff to not just finish the task, but to leave something behind for others to find. When I was building a barn last fall, I placed a 2022 nickel on top of each of the footings and wrote the date it was built before setting the poles on top of them. Someday someone will find these and wonder what the story was and wonder who this John Oliver guy was...

My excitement to think this could be a Shallow N error coin was dashed when I stepped back and thought about it... The huge crease in the obverse face probably dented the coin toward the reverse face and that is what created the shallow N... Even without the error, if it were to grade at the poorest grade of G-4, it still holds a premium.

A year ago on our property I found some old stoneware in our pasture and it turned out to be made prior to 1897. Of all the heavy research I have done in search of places to detect, I have done extensive research on my own property and I have not found any evidence that there was a house on the property, except for the older things that keep showing up/ The first photo is the mark on the bottom of a broken plate. The second photo is some info about Alfred Meakin. The third photo is the mini horses trying to help me find treasure in their pasture. The fourth photo is the "Teamwork" poster.... Two littles trying to use the same little digger.

The first pic is a close-up of the date. At first I thought it was a 1878, but it's a 1872. The second pic is from over two years ago when on April 4th 2021 I seeded my sand driveway with 250 modern zinc cents for my nephews and niece to find with my metal detectors.

So... Two years ago on April 4th, I took 250 modern zinc cents and hid them about an inch deep in our sand driveway for our nephews and niece to find with my metal detectors. The detectors were too big and heavy for them so they just used my smaller pin pointer detectors and a couple of sand scoops. The had a ball for a couple hours and found quite a bit of them. Since then after a rain a couple of the modern cents will surface & I smile thinking back how much fun the kids had that day... Fast forward to tonight, I was walking back from the barn with Jody after doing the evening chores and I looked down and saw a green cent on the ground. When I picked it up, I could see that it was a worn Indian head cent and I told Jody, "Holy smokes, its an Indian head cent". She said "You must have thrown it out there that day you buried the coins for the kids". While still walking back to the house I told her "I wouldn't have thrown an Indian head cent out for them to find". When I got in the house and put it under the magnifying glass, I see that it's a 1872... I looked back at my records and old face book posts and I have never found a 1872 Indian head cent. Could this be that this 151 year old coin has been on the property all this time? Not only is this a 1872 Indian head cent, it is an error coin as well. The error is that it's a "Shallow N FS-901 1872 Indian head cent". Here is the link to the PCGS website that explains the error: https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1872-1c-shallow-n-fs-901-rb/404547 I did find some old stoneware last year on the property that was made prior to 1897, so anything is possible.

Thanks GB. I hear you on the luck having a strong relationship to persistence. I like those two quotes you mentioned and I might need to poach them from you.

Thanks for the info GB. Being I was born in '66 it could be about as old as me then. On the bottom it says Tootsietoy Made in USA. Mario Andretti was my favorite driver when I was growing up. There was a Scottish formula driver named Jackie Stewart that was my second favorite. A.J. Foyt was as arrogant as the day is long so I never cared for him.

Thank you Chase Goldman, I have a few nice errors, but looking at coins in detail works better for me when its freezing outside and there is not much else I feel like doing. I have been saving a lot of RPM errors and lamination errors. I did get a nice 1823 half dollar with an ugly 3 error from a bank. That is is another story though, but the best fifty cents I ever spent.

Thank you Geologyhound! I want to have it graded, but I haven't set up an account with PCGS yet. The design on this year half eagle is incused so it looks better than it would probably grade to. Just guessing it should grade to XF 45 or maybe a little more.

Thank GB, I do have some really long lucky streaks I guess. I have had my share of bad luck also. I think it has a bunch to do with Karma somehow though. There have been people suggesting that it was probably one of the anonymous donations of a gold coin in a red Salvation Army kettle and it was probably overlooked when sorting the red kettle change. I had my doubts when I first heard this possible reason, but then I started looking up how many gold coins that are anonymously donated every year and I think it's plausible. I did find two different lots of wheat cents from customer wrapped rolls a couple years ago. One group was 747 wheats and a week later I found another 923 wheats. Here is a long video of me opening that second group:

Thanks Bedrocker. I appreciate that.