New Permission Got Its Two Cents In

[F350Platinum]

Got this permission a while back but waited for Chase to be able to make the grueling 2 hour drive to search it with me for the first time.

A huge 100+ acre farm that has potential, it is part of a very old land grant. There are another 100 acres nearby as well.

We got in about 4 miles of walking, up and down hills, across slopes, and pretty much covered the outer edges. Chase had to go but I stayed a couple hours more.

Honestly with all that coverage we didn't find much but I did make one find that was on my "Why haven't I found this yet" list:

An 1864 2 Cent piece that looks good on both sides.

It's the more common "Large Motto" variant, in pretty good shape.

We both agreed this place has been heavily detected, but I managed to get a few things, it's a lot of walking. Here's all the stuff too big to put in a display box:

A large spring scale plate, a brass hook fragment, a belt buckle I think it's from the 70s or 80s, a rope cinch or pulley, and some sort of brass finial with a square hole in the bottom.

Here are the keepers:

A dog tag from 1955, some broken brass tab that I think may say "Jan 6", one really old button and an aluminum two hole, a copper memorial, two clad dimes and an IHP with a completely obliterated obverse. The 2c coin is next to the brass ring I got as I was leaving.

Lots of trash today, no iron but lots of junk. 

Got a great fall sunset while cleaning my gear. 🙂

[kac]

Nice 64! Grounds look really promising.

[ColonelDan]

Good job soldier...love that 2 cent piece.  👍

[F350Platinum]

10 hours ago, kac said:

Nice 64! Grounds look really promising.

Thanks kac,

We thought so too, but I'm pretty sure this place got hit really hard in the past. It should have produced a lot more in less time than it did. 🫤 I'm afraid it will only give up random finds after lots of searching. I think I know who was there before.

[F350Platinum]

1 hour ago, ColonelDan said:

Good job soldier...love that 2 cent piece.  👍

Thanks Colonel, that was one I didn't have, so I'm happy to get a good one. It was a solid 85 like a (good) Zincoln, memorials come in at 90, and IHPs for some reason are 80.

The digging conditions were so good, it's really sad that I had to go to such great lengths to find anything. There is no mineralization. That copper scale plate was over a foot deep.

[Doc Bach]

That's a good lookin Two center 350! It is always great to see the old stuff....Looks like it's game on!

[Digalicious]

It looks like great hunting grounds, and all things considered, that 2 cent piece is in great shape.

Are you guys giving up on it, or going to give it another go?

[Geologyhound]

Looks like a lot of bullets and shotgun shells. Still, if I could turn up a two cent piece at a hunted out site, I would be happy!

[F350Platinum]

2 hours ago, Doc Bach said:

That's a good lookin Two center 350! It is always great to see the old stuff....Looks like it's game on!

Thanks Doc,

Well yes... And no. 😀 While one find proves Colonial activity and others are in line with the family that has owned this place since, it's like another of my permissions that has to be thoroughly checked for hot spots. This farm was apparently not a center of social activity or much to do with horses, which signal better finds like buttons, old jewelry, and coins.

If my suspicion is correct it was cherry picked for all the easy silver coins, so finding iron patches and digging some of it out will be de rigueur. 😅 From the date on the 2¢ piece it would indicate a probability for at least a Trime, a very difficult coin to find.

100 acres might not seem like much, but you're talking 4 million square feet 🤔

[F350Platinum]

2 hours ago, Digalicious said:

It looks like great hunting grounds, and all things considered, that 2 cent piece is in great shape.

Are you guys giving up on it, or going to give it another go?

Thanks Dig,

The farm is nothing short of excellent condition-wise, easy non-mineral loose dirt. Some of y'all would kill for these conditions, but it's so big it's not really suitable for a grid search which would produce the most return, and render it done. 😀 I'm sure I'll return to it but I do have other farms that IMO have much higher potential than this one after this survey. 🙂