Popular Post F350Platinum Posted October 8 Popular Post Share Posted October 8 I'm getting ready for my last camping trip of the year this week, really didn't have time to travel to a permission, but this afternoon I got this really strong feeling that I should hunt a small field behind my house. I'm glad I did. The field is only about and acre or so, I've found an early buckle, some buttons and tombacs here. I really thought today that I would find a coin. If you can you should always follow your hunches, if you get a feeling in the field that you ought to "go over there", DO IT. I have found many great things this way. Today was no exception, and a great feeling. I didn't get much junk: Just a few headstamps and an old copper nail. I think the pull tab is probably from the War of 1812 🙄 The British came up the river behind my house and brought a lot of beer. 🤣 Seriously though, my relic finds were cool: A lead weight or game piece, a lock box keyhole escutcheon, an old brass thimble, and the coin I thought I would find: An 1869 IHP, a semi-key date coin in its own right, only 6 million were minted. It's in pretty good shape, but examining it under my coin microscope revealed another attribute that makes it even more desirable, the "9 over 9" restrike. Here is a pic from the USA coin book: I'm pretty sure of it. 🥳 Follow your hunches! 🍀 21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okara gold Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Wide open field and a nice coin find! Nice going on your hunch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted October 8 Author Share Posted October 8 34 minutes ago, okara gold said: Wide open field and a nice coin find! Nice going on your hunch. Thanks Okara, Once a hunch that I should "go over there" netted me a 1690 1 reale cob. I guess after a few years of detecting your hunches and feelings are honed by experience, never second guess. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCR Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Excellent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Bach Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Once and if a person that has the abillity can develop that built in radar for lack of a better expression which is almost like a sixth sense and have the discipline to follow up on it they become more than just a detectorist or whatever their particular genres may be and enter the realm of being a true treasure hunter. Nice going 350 thats a nice featherhead! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Nice going on the hunch that you had, but we all know that you would have come up with something just as good. It seems that you know how to read the area and use the right equipment to find almost anything you set your mind to. Good luck on your next hunt as the days are getting colder now. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Wow 350 , you're a finds psychic ! Some would say that's BS but I'm a believer . 🤩 There's not a trace of doubt in my mind... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted October 8 Author Share Posted October 8 9 hours ago, Doc Bach said: Once and if a person that has the abillity can develop that built in radar for lack of a better expression which is almost like a sixth sense and have the discipline to follow up on it they become more than just a detectorist or whatever their particular genres may be and enter the realm of being a true treasure hunter. Nice going 350 thats a nice featherhead! Thanks Doc, The landowner retained a few of the "waterfront" sites after selling the rest off to a farmer. The new owners have all given me permission to hunt them until they build, a very difficult process here. 😅 I've always been kinda lucky, I'm just paying attention to these instances more often now that I can. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted October 8 Author Share Posted October 8 4 hours ago, Valens Legacy said: Nice going on the hunch that you had, but we all know that you would have come up with something just as good. It seems that you know how to read the area and use the right equipment to find almost anything you set your mind to. Good luck on your next hunt as the days are getting colder now. Thanks VL, No doubt having good tools to do the job helps. We had quite a bit of rain recently, the owner came down a few days ago and cut the grass, so since I had a break I went over there and looked again. Everything sorta came together. I've had a hunt or so recently that hasn't produced much, it was nice to get something cool a few hundred feet from my house. 😅 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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