borispriva
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Went to the old park in Connecticut last weekend - the same location where I found my oldest cooper last year - William III half penny from 1698 - and this silver beauty - Carolus IIII 2 reales from 1803.
Dug some usual old iron - this place is infected with square nails - and next to the big old rusty one dug my first large cent of the year - 1802 Draped Bust in pretty good shape.
The soil in this park is pretty gentle to the coins as you can see.
I dug draped largies at other locations before - very often there are not that much to see.
This one has some details left on it.
The other find was small shoe buckle frame.
I also found deliciously green 1890 Indian.
And some usual silver - the quarter was hit by lawn mower.
Update!!!
As promised - more finds from this park.
Like I told you earlier today - parks like this one still exists, you just have to find them.
This one was definitely hunted before, but...
Between me and my hunting partner AndreyNY we pulled about 160-170 silvers from this place.
AndreyNY also found another Largie (pretty toasted one) and beautiful 18K crucifix.
First old things from this park were damaged part of the colonial shoe buckle (my first!) and piece of horse harness.
After that I dug old and beautiful silver pendant with little bird etched on it by hand.
Next find was George II Halfpenny in unbelievable shape - the coin looked very strange to me until I realized that someone was trying to make a ring out of it, but never finished the project.
The condition of this 1730 Halfpenny is simply amazing.
Here is obverse.
And reverse.
My next significant coin from this park was another Halfpenny - this time William III.
This is my oldest cooper coin found in US - 1698!
It was almost worn flat, but not completely.
You can see the coin here before it was cleaned and revealed the date.
Another interesting find in that area was 4oz. bronze scale weight with some sort of masonic symbol(?) etched on the top.
The place my largie, two reales, George II and William III half pennies came from was definitely a house site in the past.
I found about 10 silver coins over there starting from barbers all the way to Washingtons and Rosies.
And - of course - every time I was hunting there I was getting this - square nails and other iron garbage. Tons of it.
Here is the one night harvest.
The last find from this park I want to share with you will be this massive 1951 10K gold class ring.
The ring has no name or initials - so it will stay with me.
As always - thanks for looking and HH!
Dug some usual old iron - this place is infected with square nails - and next to the big old rusty one dug my first large cent of the year - 1802 Draped Bust in pretty good shape.
The soil in this park is pretty gentle to the coins as you can see.
I dug draped largies at other locations before - very often there are not that much to see.
This one has some details left on it.
The other find was small shoe buckle frame.
I also found deliciously green 1890 Indian.
And some usual silver - the quarter was hit by lawn mower.
Update!!!
As promised - more finds from this park.
Like I told you earlier today - parks like this one still exists, you just have to find them.
This one was definitely hunted before, but...
Between me and my hunting partner AndreyNY we pulled about 160-170 silvers from this place.
AndreyNY also found another Largie (pretty toasted one) and beautiful 18K crucifix.
First old things from this park were damaged part of the colonial shoe buckle (my first!) and piece of horse harness.
After that I dug old and beautiful silver pendant with little bird etched on it by hand.
Next find was George II Halfpenny in unbelievable shape - the coin looked very strange to me until I realized that someone was trying to make a ring out of it, but never finished the project.
The condition of this 1730 Halfpenny is simply amazing.
Here is obverse.
And reverse.
My next significant coin from this park was another Halfpenny - this time William III.
This is my oldest cooper coin found in US - 1698!
It was almost worn flat, but not completely.
You can see the coin here before it was cleaned and revealed the date.
Another interesting find in that area was 4oz. bronze scale weight with some sort of masonic symbol(?) etched on the top.
The place my largie, two reales, George II and William III half pennies came from was definitely a house site in the past.
I found about 10 silver coins over there starting from barbers all the way to Washingtons and Rosies.
And - of course - every time I was hunting there I was getting this - square nails and other iron garbage. Tons of it.
Here is the one night harvest.
The last find from this park I want to share with you will be this massive 1951 10K gold class ring.
The ring has no name or initials - so it will stay with me.
As always - thanks for looking and HH!
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Especially the green Indian.
Certainly a wide range of dates.
