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Found Another 1773 VA Half Penny Today

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Shayne

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Maybe they are not so rare - I found another King George III - VA Half Penny today - 1773. It was at a different site than the first one I found in January. Still very exciting to pull it out of the ground. Here is the link to my other thread if you need a photo reference, as today's coin is soaking in olive oil. :detecting:

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?79,1608687,1608701#msg-1608701
 
awesome find. real history right there. what do they read like?
 
Came in at a solid 12/41 - repeatable in every direction - about 9" deep. The coin is 24mm wide (size and thickness of a quarter).
 
A big congrats on finding the 1700's Half Penny - finding any 1700's coin is a real trip back in time !
 
Places to hunt here in Williamsburg VA are VERY limited, as 99% of the public areas are designated historic property and private land owners aren't very accommodating. As a result, I have been hunting the same patch of land adjacent to my house and I basically dig everything. I am actually running out of targets, so when I see something pop up in that wheat penny range I still get excited. This piece of land - less than 1 acre - has produced items from 1773 to 1944, but not one modern coin. Literally 100's of wheat pennies, but only 15-20 silvers - mostly mercury dimes, a few war/V/shield nickles and one barber dime. Also found this little guy the other day - definitely colonial. It is either bronze or brass, about 2 1/2 inches tall and very heavy - 25.2 grams. Wish I new who the figure was intended to represent. Oh well, there is the mystery that lures all of us to this hobby.
 
the trac's a killer for sure! righteous find!
outrageous coin sniper!..just sayin'

(h.h.!)
j.t.
 
Anything older than about 1850 is extremely rare in these parts (Nebraska). If you are able to pull so many old targets from that one strip of land, imagine what is under the remaining 99%!:yikes: It's kind of senseless that so many relics remain buried to be lost to the dirt gods rather than being allowed to be recovered for everybody to enjoy and learn from. I understand the battle site reasoining, but not so much with regular pieces of ground in the VA area. Our country is losing so much physical history every day by keeping it in the ground and letting it ruin.
 
Shayne - I am curious...have you dug EVERY metallic target out of that one acre piece of land?
There was a very scientific study done by Tom Dankowski in 2000 about the masking ability of iron and other objects in the soil that was a real eye opener.

After he dug what he thought was EVERY metallic target from a ball field (using multiple machines and from different directions over a decent period of time) and was convinced that he had gotten everything out, he then used a PI machine to see if there was any more metallic items left in the same field.

Using the PI for 11 days he was able to find an additional 1,100 items including about 50 good targets - some gold jewelry and 39 more coins on top of the 9 coins he had found from the ball field before he used the PI.

Here is the link - it's a good read: http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/behindthemask.htm
 
thanks for the link to Toms blog, would 12 years of new technology changed his view on target masking?

nice coin by the way :clapping:

blank planet
 
Awesome!!!
Bunker
 
barryny said:
Shayne - I am curious...have you dug EVERY metallic target out of that one acre piece of land?
There was a very scientific study done by Tom Dankowski in 2000 about the masking ability of iron and other objects in the soil that was a real eye opener.

After he dug what he thought was EVERY metallic target from a ball field (using multiple machines and from different directions over a decent period of time) and was convinced that he had gotten everything out, he then used a PI machine to see if there was any more metallic items left in the same field.

Using the PI for 11 days he was able to find an additional 1,100 items including about 50 good targets - some gold jewelry and 39 more coins on top of the 9 coins he had found from the ball field before he used the PI.

Here is the link - it's a good read: http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/behindthemask.htm
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Excellent advice! Now all I need is a PI Detector - you tell my wife please. I might be able to make an argument that it is for the beach, as my eTrac is not waterproof - hmmmm. Kidding aside, I have dug tons of iron, as there use to be a school and a railroad station on the property in the late 1800's. I have even tried several different types/sizes of coils up to the WOT. Most recently, the NEL Sharpshooter (5.5x9.5) has been a winner for me. In fact, that is the coil I found the 2nd half penny and the colonial figure with.
 
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