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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25405269, member: 10461&quot;]Actually, the late H. Glenn Carson, author of the classic book <i>Coinshooting</i>, which I mentioned earlier, was a Colorado digger.&nbsp; He made a number of nice finds of older coins in CO.&nbsp; He hunted a lot of ghost towns.&nbsp; But he also did plenty of urban coinshooting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember seeing photos somewhere of a 2-cent piece he had found in one of those ghost towns.&nbsp; The coin lay buried beneath a collapsed plaster wall, and was in such a pristine state of preservation, it still had some of the original mint red remaining!&nbsp; That doesn’t happen often with buried copper or bronze coins in most soils.&nbsp; I think y’all might have some gentler soil conditions in some areas.&nbsp; The plaster debris might have also served to protect his 2-center for more than a century in the ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Down here (SE coastal GA) we occasionally have some areas of well drained sandy soil that are kinder to copper.&nbsp; Some of my local buddies have dug some <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1803-large-cent-small-date-large-fraction.368274/#post-4943348" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1803-large-cent-small-date-large-fraction.368274/#post-4943348">amazingly preserved early large cents</a>.&nbsp; But I’ve never seen any come up that had the original mint red remaining.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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