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Meeting house site

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RonNH

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I went to this site 3-4 years ago with a different machine and a lot less experience than I have now. This place is pretty neat, 1/2 mile up a hill in the middle of nowhere. There is a stone monument about 8 feet high erected in 1904 which reads, in part.....THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE WAS BUILT ON THIS SITE IN 1791. THE LAST SERVICE HERE WAS DECEMBER 25, 1808. So almost 200 years after that last service, I decided to go and see if I could save a little history. I looked at the site and figured where they would have parked the carriages and started swinging away. I heard a faint beep with a good VDI lock. 10 inches down, I saw a green disc and thought button, but it was instead a Draped Bust large cent, no date but those were minted from 1796 - 1807 which fit in nicely to the time frame of the meeting house. I like to think one of the congregation dropped it on that cold Christmas night 2 centuries ago.

I plan on donating the coin and a nail found at the site to the town's Historical Society. I think it would mean more to them than to me. RonNH
 
smart play!..ron!..i would do the same!.nice gesture!

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
congrats on a nice find!! Now.......go back......reduce your disc to "0".and put it in monotone.........and dig that pine tree you missed!!! :laugh:
 
It's people like you who making detecting one of the best hobbies around.
I am sure they will appreciate your wonderful find Sir.
 
I have tried to do some donations & some displays, etc. Unfortunately the historical societies around here are mostly all affiliated with the archies that call us "looters" and "pothunters" and they would have said why were you out there digging in the first place?.....:rant:
 
Ron,

Very nice coin and Kudos in your willingness to donate the coin to the local historical society. Hopefully your very generous gesture of good will, will go a long way in hoping to change some of the very negative mindsets/attitudes that "many" historical societies/archies hold towards us and our hobby. All it takes is one person at a time to influence others that we're not all "renegades". My first large cent was the same as your find with no date. Please let us know how receptive the historical society was in receivng your coin and whether you were able to locate other coins.

Cheers and HH

Wayne
 
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