Went to a old farm house and plowed field site today with my friend Don. He is friends with the farmer and rec'd permission to hunt a bunch of properties the family owns. The day started out slow but got a lot better by the end of the hunt. We did the plowed field first and this is where I found the large copper A's all folded up. I thought they were trashed and was a surprised to find out how big they were. I thought the big A's were possibly silver coins from the way my V3 hit on them. Rest of the finds for a while were Memorials and then a quarter, dime here and there. Finds started coming once we went around the owners farm house. First find here was a 1903 IH. Then the wheats started popping up some real close to one another. Suprise find was the 1918 Wheat and 1889 IH stuck to one another, you can see the contact mark in one of the pics. The best find for the day is a 1911-D Wheat, lower mintage that books for $6 in G-4 condition and is my best wheat $$ wise to date. I'm sure its worth 1 cent rofl. Had fun and the V3 was working well, still learning too. Also found a crumpled sterling silver spoon marked J. HOLLISTER - PURE COIN, nice pece of silver weight wise.
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That was according to census at the time (typo ??). I'll have to look into it someday. Thanks for the research update.
