Old cut corn field 1/2 cent

[Mark kus]

I hunter Saturday with a friend and my father who is 88!
We started in a old corn field that was recently cut and within 15 minutes I had a 14-16 on my Nox a good solid signal so I dug it out turns out was a half cent!
I’m not sure if I ever dug one before because most of these coins are worn pretty badWhen I find them but this one definitely is one We stayed there for about two hours digging some modern coins and lots of bullets I’ll go back as I heard there was a capped bust pulled from here last year!
HH
Matk

 

[laplander]

No doubt about that one, congrats! A bust would be icing on the cake
HH Jeff

 

[wildwilly]

I'm impressed esp. about your dad. My kind of guy.

 

[Mark kus]

I'm impressed esp. about your dad. My kind of guy.

Thanks he loves detecting goes almost everyday being 88 and still swinging!!!

 

[carver]

I wish I still had my father to hunt with. I envy you. I lost my father when he was 56 years old. I was six weeks old when he went overseas during ww2. He was wounded three times.

Carver

 

[IowaRelic]

That’s very cool. Imagine if he would have had a modern machine back in the 40s or 50s. No telling what the old timers would have found. do you ever just drive around and have him show you where things used to be along time ago?

Lost my dad when I was 16, cancer. He was 45. He showed me bottle digging when I was 10 or 11. Been digging and finding ever since. I know he would love detecting if he was around. Luckily I spent all my years following and learning from him and now my kids follow me as I teach them the same lessons. Having faith, and a good woman helps a man heal up and move on. Kids too. If I sit still I start to hurt again. Always moving forward.

 

[Mark kus]

Thanks Carver sorry to hear about the passing of your father I thank him for his service.
I believe my father started detecting in the 70’s as I remember when I was a kid and I was detecting with him then I stopped and started again in 2016.
Sorry Iowa that’s quite a sad loss at such a young age I’m glad I have some time to spend with him we were out swinging a corn field for two hours he never stopped being a swamp Yankee!
Mark