Let me start by saying RESEARCH PAYS OFF! I had heard that a church sat on the corner of a road in the 1860s-1900s as did everyone else but nobody could find it. Until, I learned that the road had been realligned since then, making the corner it was supposed to be on nearly a half mile down the road. As soon as I got there, out pops a 1902 indian head penny, right then I knew it was going to be a good weekend of hunting. As the day goes on I pull out a few buttons, a shotgun shell with the paper still attatched, an 1899 and 1884 indian, and a 1910 wheatie. After the first day I had found my oldest Indian by 3 years, doubled the number of Indians I had ever found, and found the oldest wheatie I had ever found by 3 years. I thought I had the place hunted out but I decided to grid the place going the opposite direction as I had on Saturday. I found out, the church was far from hunted out. I found 2 more Indians, another 1910 wheatie, and a flat button with the shank still attatched. The first Indian was a 1901, the second was standing perfectly on edge and would not get a reading going the way was going the day before. As I wiped it off I could see 187-. My heart was racing because I knew all the 1870s Indians were at least semi-key dates. As I used my finger nail ever so gently to chip off the corrosion I saw that 1878 and I was esctatic! It wasnt the famed 1877 but still my rarest coin, next to a 1924 peace dollar and a 1819 Large Cent. What a weekend of metal detecting!!
