Tom_in_CA
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Hey gang, as promised, here's an assortment of the group-of-hunter's finds from the place where I got cob about a week ago.
The place was an old-town turfed park, that was being bulldozed around by tractors for a recent renovation project. The project is finished now. All told, there were 6 hunters in on the action, over various treks in there.
Some of the notable finds made by the various hunters:
A) two large cents surfaced (not an easy feat for CA ! )
B) The cob (ID'd as being likely Peru, which can make it date to as recent as 1773)
C) An 1849 Mexican reale
D) seateds dating back to the 1830s & '40s
E) a near mint 1914 s barber half (albeit with some ground-kiss on it)
F) a female end of a gold rush, square-style, tongue & wreath buckle
G) A silver 3c piece (yeah, yeah, common on the east coast. But hard in CA
)
H) A 1909s Lincoln (no VDB durnit)
I) Miscellaneous foreign coins from the mid to late 1800s
The place was an old-town turfed park, that was being bulldozed around by tractors for a recent renovation project. The project is finished now. All told, there were 6 hunters in on the action, over various treks in there.
Some of the notable finds made by the various hunters:
A) two large cents surfaced (not an easy feat for CA ! )
B) The cob (ID'd as being likely Peru, which can make it date to as recent as 1773)
C) An 1849 Mexican reale
D) seateds dating back to the 1830s & '40s
E) a near mint 1914 s barber half (albeit with some ground-kiss on it)
F) a female end of a gold rush, square-style, tongue & wreath buckle
G) A silver 3c piece (yeah, yeah, common on the east coast. But hard in CA
)H) A 1909s Lincoln (no VDB durnit)
I) Miscellaneous foreign coins from the mid to late 1800s
Or maybe they'll be bashful 
Because some zones were only scraped a few inches at most. Not deep enough to rid the clad. Other areas had soil jumbled back in. So there was no rhyme or reason to new vs old via depth.
