Found My Oldest Indian Today

[MetalMiner]

Short 2 hr hunt, 2 old flat buttons, one is sliver plated, 2 wheat pennies, Musketball, a Junk Ring & my oldest Indian Head Penny, 1864,. Found all these except the ring in the most unlikely spot on an old dirt baseball infield, I hunted all around it & never did the baseball diamond thinking there was fill dirt layed down, not so, the small flat button was laying on the surface, all the others were less than 4" deep. The Indian really surprised me, was reading 26 in All Metal, High trash, never seen an IH read like that.

 

[kschae4]

M2,congrats on great short hunt. Very surprising tid on the IH. Good back detail and shank on button to help id it, further. Like the lead,too.

 

[Will1877]

Cool man. I have over the last few years dug pretty good amount of Indians not like some of these pros or nothing but upwards of a hundred. And wouldn't you know it I have yet to come across a fat one. Every year it moves up on my wish list. Congrats nice coin.

 

[Dave400]

Great coin ' It is a fattie right.Found an 1864 my self and it was a fattie.Nice looking coins.Looks like it willclean up some more. Are you going to try and clean it more,and how

 

[Spider-F5]

way to go MM......... isnt the '64 the first year for the second generation of IH pennies?

HH<Spider