February's Big Copper!

[Bell-Two]

The weather here in Ohio has been very cold, rainy or snow with just a couple of exceptions since New Years. Today was cold in the morning with a brilliant full moon accompanied by the planet Jupiter off to its upper right a lovely scene for sure. As the day progressed the sun warmed the air a bit so I took the opportunity to get out for a few hours back to the field that has been very good to us. The ground was muddy a bit on top but underneath the mud the ground was iron hard frozen solid. Right off I got a nice little buckle and a few pieces of copper bits and a rifle ball. I got a very solid 12-45 signal and tried to dig it, the ground was so hard I could not get the shovel to penetrate the ground even when jumping on it! I managed to get down about two inches…but the target according to the depth reading was at six inches. So I marked the spot with some broken brick and glass and decided to let the sun work on it a bit as I continued searching for other targets. I went back to find the spot and at first I could not see it…turned frozen muddy soil has the distressing quality of looking all alike. But at last I spied my little cairn of brick and glass and swing the coil over it confirmed it was a sweet sounding target. I decided no matter what I wasn’t leaving without whatever was giving that signal. Twenty minutes of chipping away with the shovel vibrating with each blow got me down to a level that I was able to get the shovel blade in a bit farther and levering with all my strength I was able to pop out a chunk and lo and behold I see the edge of a green disk protruding from the side of the hole.

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Working it a bit with my fingers and it comes loose and I had another Large Cent from this field!

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It is an 1843, a new date for me and in reasonable shape. It actually looks better in person than the pictures show. A nice find for February in Ohio.

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[Lodge Scent]

You were well rewarded for your efforts! That is cool see it stick out of the hole like that. :congrats:

[Tony Two-Cent]

You are on a roll with the large cents, Tony! :thumbsup02:

You really had to work hard for that one, but you were handsomely rewarded for your efforts!

Congrats on the 1843 Large Cent, and I hope that 2015 brings many more nice finds your way! :yes:

[aloldstuff]

Good thinking on marking the spot and letting the sun try to thaw the ground a little. Very cool pic of the LC sticking out of the side like that. Hope you can still get out hunting, us here in the NE are about to get buried again with another storm.

[Trooper Bri]

Great work Tony, and nice reward! Nice to see the reports still coming in.

[GA1dad]

Gotta love commitment!! Congrats on your great find!!

[Pacivilwarluke]

Awesome largie! glad your hard work paid off! :) HH!

[Isaac]

Great job on the largie , that's what i call determination. :) Congrats

[MangoAve]

Nice largie. Good thing there was something to mark the spot. I think I have a spare trowel I could have used but not everyone carries such.


Great job on the largie , that's what i call determination. :) Congrats

There's so much trash buried everywhere that good finds are scarce in comparison. If it was a field or woods I would be out there with a hatchet breaking thru the ground. Lol.

[Digger Don]

Persistence does Pay off.
I'm glad you went back and found it. It looks to be in very nice shape.
:congrats:

[RIdirtdigger]

nice job on the large cent, id be doing the same thing if it weren't for a foot of snow on the ground

[kpmoose]

Congrats on that large cent. Very cool seeing it sticking out the side of the hole. Nice to see someone can still hunt, even if it is frozen ground. I can't wait for this snow to be gone- no time soon, unfortunately. Thanks for posting.

[The Rebel]

WTG on the frozen copper. Sure would have sucked that after digger for 20 min's it was a headstamp, LOL!