Tony Two-Cent's 2014 Year-in-Review

[Tony Two-Cent]

I really enjoyed metal detecting this past year. I made some new hunting buddies and found some bucket list coins. I am thankful that my health and the weather here in Illinois allows me to go detecting often.

So if you will forgive my shameless self indulgence I would like to share a summary of my finds from 2014.

I was happy to finally find a US large cent with my E-Trac. I found 2 of them in 2014.



I found 62 Indian Head Cents including my first ever 1877:



I found these 4 Indian Heads in with my Wheat Cents as I was tumbling them today. I guess I need to get my eyes checked.



468 Wheat Cents sorted by decade. (Not a very good photo.)




I found this 1864 Two Cent Piece on September 20:



My first ever half dimes and my first capped bust silver:




I found 4 Shield Nickels in 2014:




14 V Nickels:



21 Buffalo Nickels:



6 Seated Dimes:



16 Barber Dimes:



60 Mercury Dimes:



35 Silver Roosevelts:



2 Seated Quarters:




2 Barber Quarters:




1 Standing Liberty Quarter and 24 Silver Washington Quarters (Which I forgot to photograph.)

5 Walking Liberty Half Dollars:



Here are all of the silver coins I found in 2014:



Tokens:



Silver jewelry and 1 piece of gold:



Costume jewelry:



Buttons:



Buckles:



Dog Tags:



Bells:



Watches and watch parts:



Toy Guns:



Toy Cars:



Spoons:



Thimbles: (Maybe someday I will find a nice one!)



Cub Scout items:



Harmonica, accordion, pump organ and squeezebox reeds:




Coal Company Scatter tags:



Lead Bag Seals:



Medallions:



Militaria:



Lead Bullets/Slugs:




Shotgun Shell Head Stamps:



Keys:



Foreign Coins:




Fobs:



Miscellaneous:






I hope everyone has a prosperous 2015 and that you make lots of amazing metal detecting finds!

[Digger Don]

WOW

[aloldstuff]

Tony, is there anything left in Illinois?? Very impressive grouping of coins, your total silver picture is great. Pretty sure you got more IH's this year than I do in my career . By the way did you count the one in your token picture?

You should be very proud of your finds and please do not consider your sharing them with us as "shameless self indulgence".

I hope that your detecting in 2015 is as good if not better than 2014. Any thoughts on what state your going to....

[del]

WOW

indeed!!

[Digger Don]

What an absolute impressive year you had. I'm pleased that i had the chance to witness a few of your awesome finds first hand. I'm equally impressed on how organized you keep all your finds. Thanks for posting your 2014 review, I enjoyed seeing it. Great Year Tony

[PL8MAN]

What a year you had !! Super finds Tony ! Hope 2015 is even better
Glen

[dpdave38]

Looks like you had a great year. Thanks for sharing all the photos of your stuff, those kind of photos makes me want to go out and hunt right now. lol

Dave

[denny2w]

Holy Zoko Wow!
I'm trying not to be jealous...........................it's not working!
Congrads...

[giant056]

Wow!!!!!!! Tony you had one awesome year of detecting for sure

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[OxShoeDrew]

Super year Tony! That holed bank token half penny is really cool, what's on the other side?

[nalc472]

Starting out my year with a new e-trac. Used a V3i all year and only found 13 silver coins. Did find 3 large cents. Found my deepest nickel ever with the etrac yesterday at 8 inches. V3i best nickel at 6 inches.

[Tony Two-Cent]

That holed bank token half penny is really cool, what's on the other side?

The other side of the bank token isn't as nice.

[RIdirtdigger]

What an incredible year Tony. Plenty of seated coinage as well (I'm still looking for my first). Great job on the relics and jewelry as well. I hope 2015 is even better for you. Once again, congrats on a fantastic year.

[Isaac]

Iceedible year Tony !!!!!!!! Can't wait to post mine now!!!! BIG congrats!!!

[fireman109]

Holy crap!!! Awesome year buddy!! Lol some people won't get that in a lifetime, great year buddy!!

[mownomo]

Very impressive presentation. I hope this year will be as good to you as 2014. BTW, some of the HotWheels in your pics are good finds. If you find any with red-stripe wheels in mint condition, call collect!!!! Happy New Year and may God bless you and yours.

[Full Metal Digger]

Very nice finds Tony. You did well in every category. Your ability to sniff out hidden treasure is second to none and your photographic skills really shows them off well. Best wishes for 2015.

[Trooper Bri]

Think I got hypnotized looking at all that silver. What day is it ?!?

Love that 2-cent piece Tony. Congrats on a helluva year!

[Swing-N-Dig NY]

WOW.....how do you do that?............Sweet

Way to go Tony! Congrats.

[milco]

Hello Tony,

Those are some amazing finds!! You had a super year! I really like all the tokens, you guys in IL always seem to find a lot of them. The capped bust is a great find and a nice one to knock off the bucket list!

Were all these tokens found at the same site?