Post your Lincolns!

I agree. Anywhere people have gathered is a good area for coins and jewelry. I always like to hit the oldest parks in town and yards if I can get permission. I own what I suspect to be the most expensive hobby detector (ctx 3030) and it has paid for itself many, many times over.

Pretty rare to find a 1909S but they're out there. I've got books filled with silver, gold rings and buckets full of Wheaties and Injuns. Lots of fun but don't expect to pick up a detector and start finding keepers. It takes time, patience and lots of digging to learn your machine.

Good luck!

 

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Nice! How long have you been detecting?

 

My friends and I started a Metal Detecting club. 3 of the members picked up Garrett brand detectors and they are really good.
Garrett Ace 400 and the Garret AT Pro are the ones that are popular now.
I'm the guy on the left of the group

 

About 6 years now

 

I picked up a Garrett AT gold as a back up machine but struggled with whether to get it or the Pro. Wish I'd went with the Pro but either way, the first time I turned it on I felt completely lost. So it sits in the corner as long as my current machine works.

 

What are some of you guy's best finds?

 

I have tried to get into metal detecting but in my town they have made it just about impossible to hunt . So sadly I am selling my detector, hoping it goes to an avid hunter. Would have liked to get into it , all sorts of treasures out there waiting to be found

 

I didn't find this but my hunting partner did... Probably 15 feet or less from where I was hunting.


I did buy it from him and it happily sits in my collection!

 

Not to be the Grinch, but isn't this a Lincoln thread?

With that in mind, here's one which....didn't strike up well.

 

...and it's a nice one at that!

 

Here's my attempt of a struck thru:

 

That looks like heavy ghosting - I wonder if it wasn't just an absolutely terminal die state which was no longer capable of striking any better? It'd be equally interesting to me either way.

 

Yes, sorry for the hijack.

 

It's all good. Threads derail, it's a fact of life, and all we need to do to fix it is post more Lincolns. Which is never a bad thing.

 

Indeed....save us from the hijack! LOL

That's odd, where are the planchet lines?

 

Very late die state, not sure I've seen a 63 die that far gone. My guess is it's a combination of LDS and some grease in the dies. The pitting is quite strange, if those marks weren't on the planchet, then the grease contained some big chunks of debris.

 

Okay, we're back on the rails here.

So here are some cracks but I don't think die cracks. Although these cracks were "I'm sure" caused by the strike of the die, it looks like the planchet split open in spots.

 

I believe that's usually a lamination issue.

 

Hmmm, maybe. I usually associate lamination with peeling of some type. No peeling here. Although you might be right. It is an uneven surface and splitting going on. No, you're right. I just relabeled the 2x2 "Lamination".

Thanks for the feedback!