Sunday was a beautiful day to dig some colonial with Danny LaMontagne and Brian Bari. I only had one significant find among the four sites we hit but it is absolutely gorgeous and my very first Connecticut Copper ever! I found it at the first site we visited and the rest of the day I was on Cloud Number 9!
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Congrats on a really nice looking copper and another one off the bucket list!
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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
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For our first CT coppers, most of us would be happy with a toasty, bent, barely identifiable specimen. That is an awesome CT Donnie. You are making some quality finds.
Oldest find: 5,000 year old copper spearhead
Oldest coin: 1699 William III halfpenny
Purdiest coin: 1832 Capped Bust quarter
Coolest find: USA button with blue threads still on shank
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What a beautiful looking CT copper. Congrats on your 1st and I am sure not your last. As Jeff said, you are making some great finds. Keep it up.....love it.
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TOTAL 100 YEAR OLD COINS - -280
2020:
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Oldest U.S. Copper - 1795 Liberty Cap
Oldest U.S. Silver - 1829 Capped Bust Dime extra large 10C
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Incredible shape, Donnie. Well done.
Future goals: Capped bust coin, Flowing hair LC, Classic head LC, VT copper, MA copper, Pistareen, Two-cent pc, SLQ, GW inaugural button, Excelsior button, Civil war token, and a gold ring.
WTG on the CT, lots of nice detail on it to be able to ID the variety. I love my CT's!
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Oldest Copper: 1694 William & Mary Halfpenny. Oldest Silver: 1663 1-Reale
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Major congrats, Donnie B! That coin is beautiful.
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Oldest coin: 1693 W&M halfpenny
Oldest silver: 1751 Ferdinand VI Pistareen1 Real
Oldest US coin: 1787 Mass State Copper
Oldest US silver: 1821 Capped Bust Dime
Favorite Find: 1806 Carolus IIII 8 Reales
Absolutely beautiful Connecticut Donnie , Robert and his dad beat us to that site by about a month but they didn't score any coppers ! well done
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so don't expect it from cheap people"
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Wow! I'm sure they probably made a couple of great finds at that site. It was definitely good to us with your Draped Bust and my Connecticut! There's more to be found at that site so we should do a return visit some day. I like the time period of our finds there too!
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Absolutely beautiful Connecticut Donnie , Robert and his dad beat us to that site by about a month but they didn't score any coppers ! well done
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Robert , mentioned that it was pretty barren to them as well . they got a couple of buttons is all . They did get their monogrammed dandy buttons where Brian found his fancy dandy and I my tombac.
"Honesty is an expensive gift ,
so don't expect it from cheap people"
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man all I can say is wow! thats really nice. congrats
Best finds GW Button and John Adams Cufflink.
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We didn't find any buttons at that site but we got the coppers. It's strange how this hobby works some times. I was thinking after I posted a few minutes ago if that might have been the site where Mark's GW was found! The date range works!
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Nay, Mark found his GW pretty darn close to where I got my last LC. Jim A knew the spot from my pics and had gone that way on their hunt.
Future goals: Capped bust coin, Flowing hair LC, Classic head LC, VT copper, MA copper, Pistareen, Two-cent pc, SLQ, GW inaugural button, Excelsior button, Civil war token, and a gold ring.
Best obverse I ever saw on a CT! Great looking coin!! Hugh congrats Donnie!
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Thanks! I have been very, very, lucky lately and I owe it all to Danny and Brian for letting me tag along with them. Digging colonial is really the stuff of dreams for so many detectorists and I am living the dream!
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That is one beautiful coin. Very, very nice!
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Oldest coin: Roman Silver Denarius (Titus) 79-81 AD / Oldest US coin: 1786-1788 NJ Copper (x4)
Best relics: Medieval lead seal matrix (1200s) / 1789 George Washington Inaugural Button (x2)
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You don't have to be an expert to know that that's a prime specimen!!
She's in great shape !!
Congrats!!
I just hope that there's one like that still left for me when I come out.
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
Danny has given me some excellent tips and all of my recent coppers have come using his advice. Work close to the trees, scrubby areas, and places that other detectorists would skip by preferring the wide open swings. There's always something that somebody missed.
You don't have to be an expert to know that that's a prime specimen!!
She's in great shape !!
Congrats!!
I just hope that there's one like that still left for me when I come out.
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Reminds me of my first 2 large cents, as to the condition. Amazing! What Dreams May Come!! Some day.
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