Here's a video showing a metal detecting trip using my minelab X-Terra 705 on a friends farm permission. The week prior, I found my first silver coin and this time out, I found my oldest coin to date, a George II half penny. The date is too worn but the coins were made betweek 1729-1754 so it's getting close to 300 years old. It was the only coin I found on the hunt but also found lots of things I thought were coins on their way out, until a bit of cleaning revealed most was junk.
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Great find! My oldest coin in the US is a George III cent!
Coins found so far: (DETECTING SINCE JULY 2015)
Silver - 1 SLQ, 6 Washingtons, 11 Mercs, 8 Rosies, 1 Barber Dime, 7 War Nickels
Others - 6 buffalo nickels, 1 large cent, 1 colonial copper, 5 IHP, and too many wheats.
DETECTORS USED
Garrett AT Pro, Ace 250, and Pro-Pointer AT
Congrats on your oldest coin find. My oldest coin here in the US is a George III half penny dated 1806.
Oldest Coin: 100-60 BC Gallic bronze coin (Sequani Tribe)
Oldest Silver Coin: 1156 hammered Pfennig from (now) Bavaria
Oldest U.S. coin: 1805 Draped Bust Large Cent
Best Coins EVER: 1625 4 Sols from Kingdom of Chateau Renaud, France
1662 15 Kreuzers, Leopold I, Austria
Best Relics: Bronze Age Arrowheads & Spearhead, 2c Roman silver ring, complete medieval knight's spur (x6)
YouTube Channel: Full Metal Digger
Congrats! My oldest coin is an 1841 LC. Of course that's only 5 years or so after the first settlers arrived in the area.
Equipment:
Minelab: CTX 3030, GPX 4800, X-Terra 705. Whites TDI SL.
2024: Silver 1, Gold 0
Best finds: 28 silver dime spill, 1800s Dutch customs seal.
Oldest/best coins: Late 1700's Chinese Cash Coin, 1837 Upper Canada large cent, 1877 Seated Dime
Oldest Relic find: 1800 Sailors Luck token
You Tube: Rediscovering America
Quote: Treasures are like potato chips, you can never have just one!
great find, I'd take that anytime as my only find on a trip. Nice find WD
Total silver 3 - Goal 50 (2024 Finds) - 1 Washington - 0 Barber Dimes - 0 Mercury Dimes- - 3 Roosevelt Dimes - 0 V Nickels - 0 Buffalos - 1 War Nickels - 1 Indian - 14 Wheats - $ 5.71 in clad
Relics: MILESTONES since 2012: 1700 silver coins - 8000 Clad Quarters - 500 Roosevelts - 750 Mercury Dimes
congrats on your oldest coin Goldgrabber, the coin is a "younger head" variety these were minted from 1729 to 1739 .
Dan
"Honesty is an expensive gift ,
so don't expect it from cheap people"
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Nice find!
Congrats!
I found a KG II this past fall! I took a trip out to Connecticut to hunt some colonial cellar holes with a few forum members.
Some days you get the corn, some days you get the cob
Oldest coin: 70 B.C. "Harlow Flyer" gold qtr. Stater
Oldest U.S. coin: 1814 Capped Bust Dime
Congrats on a great find. We just recently moved from southern NH to upper state NY and I really miss the potential to find those really nice old coins.
That is a really nice find.
Minelab E-trac; CTX 3030
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