Follow the lead picture post.

No, I didn't dig this one.

Have yet to dig any odd-denomination US pieces.


Test yourself- GTG if you like- then click the link to see if you were right.

https://www.pcgs.com/cert/28729754

 

PCGS XF40

 

Haven't been out digging in probably two-plus years. I am in pathetic shape from a physical fitness standpoint. Knees are poor and respiratory condition not so great (I get winded very quickly).

Still have a detector, though, and were they to suddenly bulldoze some very promising relic site, or if the opportunity arose to hunt certain Victorian house's yards in Old Town, I'd be at it again, though I'd be wheezing and dripping with sweat and using my small shovel for a crutch to help raise myself off the ground.

Funny, I've seen multiple two-cent pieces and even the odd 3c piece (both nickel and silver) dug by buddies, on sites we were at. Just never got one. One time at an old ca. 1800 stagecoach inn, I thought for sure I had a silver 3c piece but it turned out to be a 1953 aluminum play money "dime".

Another time I thought I'd found the elusive 2c piece when I found a greenish, crusty, concreted coin of about the right diameter on a hotspot of mine. It wasn't, but it was still interesting.

 

But anyway...