..on a cool piece of history like this....I was trying to think of a way to tie this find into coins so I could show it off on this forum....kind...
I "dug" them out of the ground after finding them with a metal detector. :smile
"hi. i take it that you have only the years from 1959 to 1982 - Dug ??" Yep those are the years. I have the newer ones too but they are...
..from the year they stopped making wheaties til the years they took the copper out. These are all dug cents. Are there really any years and...
I found this one outta one of my best free places to look. You know those free realestate magazines they have out at stores and markets? I...
Any mid range name brand detector will work for ya. Whites, Explorer, Fisher, Garret. I would find one of those on e-bay at a good price....
gotta know how and where to find is all. :secret:
This home pictured was one of my best places to detect over the years. It was built by a civil war colonel. I was given permission to detect...
I think our Michigan soil has real good drainage. Not sandy. I have a picture of it somewhere before the cleaning. I think its on a disk. I'll...
I could tell it was gonna be a nice one because the coin was caked in dirt. Usually when they are covered with stuck on dirt, like a coating,...
...that is dug up from the ground that is. This is the best conditioned large cent I have ever found detecting. Found her at an old farm house...
Check out the detail that this one "had". The flying eagle pennies don't hold up well in the ground at all. Just like the nickels. But look at...
I am in Jackson County. You should check out the MXT as well. I hear good things about them. I have a friend who had a DFX but had problems...
Howdy, I use a Minelab explorer 2. Had an original minelab explorer xs first. I started with a Whites QXT back in 98. The explorer is the...
A guy at work let me detect his small front yard of an old farm house. There was plenty of fill dirt at this place. Putting the older coins...
Yep. sure em. Mainly hang out on the findmall forums though.
They don't hold up to well in the ground either... The ground is not kind to nickels.
Nope, the indian head was in the ground all those years. Our Michigan soil keeps the coins real nice. IF they are not in soil that has been...
Why are you using wd-40?
Sure. How did the cleaning of the cent go?
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