Digger_O'Dell
12-11-2015, 08:45 PM
Hi all,
Of all the things on my bucket list, there are the "dream coins" and the ones that have at least a somewhat realistic although often remote chance of being found. So I was in for quite a huge surprise this morning!
I went back to the old church this morning to give the back play field one last chance. In the past I am pretty sure it was once used as a pasture as I found cattle related items there, but no old coins-just a lot of modern clad which were almost all zincolns. Today I started back over an area I had been through before a couple times before, but suddenly I started getting some really nice deep signals, and I started pulling out a couple very early wheats from 8 to 10 inches which turned out to be 1916 and 1919, and a 1946. I suspect that now the soil wasn't waterlogged any more I was betting better signals.
Not far from the other wheats, I got another deep 12-36/38 signal. It was very sketchy and only came up with the coil dead over it-miss it by an inch or so and I lost the signal. It semed much like some of the nails I had dug nearby that were shallower, but showed as penny signals also-just sketchy like this was-but this was just a bit different, as it was repeatable from 90 degrees off unlike the nails. So I dug to the indicated 9 inches and nothing-pinpointer showed a weak signal still deeper. I had a few of these before here too which turned out to be very deep metal fence post ends. But I decided to dig a bit more anyway as the pinpointer was showing it to be smaller than a post. I began to worry as I got to the 12 inch mark, but suddenly I pull up a clump of dirt with the signal. I break it open and see a Big Brown Disc! I couldn't even imagine right away that it might be what I thought it may be. But as soon as I brushed a bit more dirt away I see the "One Cent" and the wreath. Turn it over and I see a bust-braided hair-and a date-1841....AMAZING!! This dates to the time of the first settlers in the region, and predates the church by over 60 years! Large cents are extremely rare in the Midwest, and mostly unheard of in Wisconsin. I know of only a couple ever being found near me.
Saw this, I had to text a friend right away with this pic, and then was doing the happy detectorist dance! (really, I did!)
51876
It wasn't until later that I could really look at the coin-I was shaking too bad! But now it's been washed and I have it in olive oil.
51877
51878
The wheats and dated 1987 Chuckie token
51879
Of all the things on my bucket list, there are the "dream coins" and the ones that have at least a somewhat realistic although often remote chance of being found. So I was in for quite a huge surprise this morning!
I went back to the old church this morning to give the back play field one last chance. In the past I am pretty sure it was once used as a pasture as I found cattle related items there, but no old coins-just a lot of modern clad which were almost all zincolns. Today I started back over an area I had been through before a couple times before, but suddenly I started getting some really nice deep signals, and I started pulling out a couple very early wheats from 8 to 10 inches which turned out to be 1916 and 1919, and a 1946. I suspect that now the soil wasn't waterlogged any more I was betting better signals.
Not far from the other wheats, I got another deep 12-36/38 signal. It was very sketchy and only came up with the coil dead over it-miss it by an inch or so and I lost the signal. It semed much like some of the nails I had dug nearby that were shallower, but showed as penny signals also-just sketchy like this was-but this was just a bit different, as it was repeatable from 90 degrees off unlike the nails. So I dug to the indicated 9 inches and nothing-pinpointer showed a weak signal still deeper. I had a few of these before here too which turned out to be very deep metal fence post ends. But I decided to dig a bit more anyway as the pinpointer was showing it to be smaller than a post. I began to worry as I got to the 12 inch mark, but suddenly I pull up a clump of dirt with the signal. I break it open and see a Big Brown Disc! I couldn't even imagine right away that it might be what I thought it may be. But as soon as I brushed a bit more dirt away I see the "One Cent" and the wreath. Turn it over and I see a bust-braided hair-and a date-1841....AMAZING!! This dates to the time of the first settlers in the region, and predates the church by over 60 years! Large cents are extremely rare in the Midwest, and mostly unheard of in Wisconsin. I know of only a couple ever being found near me.
Saw this, I had to text a friend right away with this pic, and then was doing the happy detectorist dance! (really, I did!)
51876
It wasn't until later that I could really look at the coin-I was shaking too bad! But now it's been washed and I have it in olive oil.
51877
51878
The wheats and dated 1987 Chuckie token
51879