Big Copper Streak Saver

Black Friday is a tradition event that a lot of people participate in, getting rushed, crushed and pushed at the mall! Well I have a tradition on the day after Thanksgiving is Track Friday, I go to the fields to track out some old finds!

Typical for Ohio fields are such finds, Diane calls them “Choice Junk”! Bits of brass and copper including an old pocket watch piece and a clock plate and one of the things I like to find the old ceramic door knobs.


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My first stop was at a field that on Veterans day produced two Large Cents, an Luggage Tag, and a Eagle button. I was pleased to see that when the farmer spread some fertilizer pellets he also knocked down the corn stalks this mad swinging the coil easier and opened up some more areas to hunt in. Besides the above “relics” I got a scratchy 12-36 signal on the CTX and after pulling out 4 small square nails I found the target an 1890 Indian Head!

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I spent a lot of time in this field going slowly trying to pick good targets out of the massive iron. The Indian was the best find. I will hit this again going in the opposite direction on my grid.

After a short break I went to another site in the same field, this is the field that Diane got the Seated Dime the other day. This site is smaller than the previous one and today it was not giving up much and I was moving fast as I was running out of time. I got some bits of lead which sounded good but not much else when I got a sweet sound and a 13-46 signal which on the 45 degree angle moved to a 12-46 and held steady. It turned out to be my streak saver! It is an 1846 Large Cent. This makes 4 years in a row that the first hunt after Thanksgiving (3 on the Friday and 1 on Saturday) that I have gotten a Large Copper. One 1837 Hard Times token and three Large Cents! Now I will feel the pressure next year for sure!

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Congrats on the streak-saving Large Cent, Tony! :thumbsup02:

It is in decent condition for a field find too. Gotta love those large coppers! :clapping:

WOW...now that's putting some pressure on yourself. :congrats:on keeping your streak alive.

I'm always up and at 'em before the sun comes up...I call Black Friday "amateur morning" :) Everyone is out and about.
That is one nice looking LC Tony!

Really nice copper streak! That LC is in awesome condition for being buried for so long. Big congrats!

Great condition coins for Ohio fields! You have been on a hot streak the last couple months!

Nice! "Choice junk" is what it's all about!

Nice largie! Congrats

Good job as always Tony. Agree with the others that the IH and LC are in quite good condition considering how fertilizer wreaks havoc on coins in general over the years. Looks like the LC is of the small date variety as shown here (http://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/243...all-varieties/).

John

Your LC came out of the ground in great shape.

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Originally Posted by BTV Digger

Good job as always Tony. Agree with the others that the IH and LC are in quite good condition considering how fertilizer wreaks havoc on coins in general over the years. Looks like the LC is of the small date variety as shown here (http://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/243...all-varieties/).

John

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Thanks John and this completes having all the date variants for the 1846 for some reason we seem to find this date more often than other Braided Hair Large Cent.

congrats on the Large cent and Indian Tony , as others have mentioned the coins look to be very nice considering found in a farm field . you've had one successful year !!