A Friend Keeps Giving Good Sites

[rod-pa]

Ozzie took me out to a new site he has visited previously.  It was a working farm from somewhere in 1700s, but is abandoned now.  Things are grown up so badly around most of the property that even though the house is only 30 feet from the road, i bet 99% of folks have no idea its there.  There was so much undergrowth, hunting close to the house was impossible, so we split up and worked on areas of what would have been fields and some yard.  Pretty typical mess for around us....buried large metal who-knows-what probably up to and including farm equipment.  The sun was out, but it was brisk, alternating some blowing rain squalls...jacket on, jacket off, jacket on, jacket off.  Got a couple spoon parts, partial harmonica reed, lead blobs for awhile.  Another really loud lead blob sounding tone, but a hair cleaner, and out pops the most likely civil war era rosette for on a bit.  30 feet further, and the nicest Indian I have gotten in a long time.  love those greenies.  To end the day, found the '40 merc and '43 war nickel under a nice big sycamore.

A big shoutout to Calabash for the videos you make...i watched a couple of them a bunch and worked this summer on FE and FE2 settings, making sure I kept the values low enough to mask as little as possible.  When digging the IndianHead, i had plenty of iron tones with it, but decided to dig because the non-ferrous was mid, and not high so was fairly certain it wasnt just falsing.  first target out was a rusty blob, then scanned again for the high tone, which was still registering, got the coin out, and re-scanned and was still getting another iron object in the hole.

all you folks, have fun digging!

[Tom_in_CA]

The soil was very kind to that IH.  Nice job.

[rvpopeye]

Nice finds👌

[F350Platinum]

Great stuff. Really like the details on the IHP, really all your coins are in good shape. Jury is out with me using the lower F2 numbers, large iron here falses big time. Had a piece today that was an 18 until I went to F2=3. Lots of farm shards and other big iron where I am.

[JCR]

Sounds like that site has a lot of potential. Quite a few of my better sites have been grown up like that. It is amazing how much you can improve the searchability of a place like that with a few hours and some good loppers. Plus you have a helper!

[GB_Amateur]

Impressive results under any conditions, but particularly in thick vegetation.  That IHP sure didn't see much time in circulation.  Might even have graded out in the AU range but looks like it's been cleaned....

 

[Valens Legacy]

Great finds for sure and glad for the rescue of them.

Good luck on your next hunt.

[rod-pa]

10 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Impressive results under any conditions, but particularly in thick vegetation.  That IHP sure didn't see much time in circulation.  Might even have graded out in the AU range but looks like it's been cleaned....

 

if you mean rinsed off with water, yep.

[schoolofhardNox]

Super patina on that IH. Solid, even patina. Great coin. A little tooth picking and soft tooth brush on the remaining dirt and that's all I would do to it. Nice find. Why didn't you find an 1877 like that? 😄

[GB_Amateur]

1 hour ago, rod-pa said:

if you mean rinsed off with water, yep.

Good deal.  The color in the photo made me think more was done.  The chemicals in the soil must have resulted in that.  It's as nice of condition of an IHP just coming out of the ground (only subjected to a water rinse) that I've ever seen.  Mine are always green and usually scaled.  Yours is a beaut!  (I wouldn't do anything more, but that's me....)