LM...you're gonna be sick........

millennium · July 16, 2006 12:03PM

Had a chance to MD an old plantation built in 1800...still there to this day......a LOT of potential...and very little trash...We got completely rained out by a severe thunderstorm. I Found this button or some type of fastener....it still has some of the gold gilt on the front and what looks like the letter "P" in script. Also the best find for me in a while...a half cent dated 1794!.....The condition while not the best, is still pretty good. Some discoloration and damage, but heck I'll take it!

Here is a link to the site:
Linda Plantation

More info

Pictures of the house and area

The area we were detecting in was near here:

Revolutionary War Veteran homesite

SilverDreams · July 16, 2006 2:23PM

Wow! That Half Cent is amazing! Oh yeah, almost forgot: YOU SUCK!

lordmarcovan · July 16, 2006 3:31PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I WAS GONNA GO WITH HIM, BUT I CANCELED!

lordmarcovan · July 16, 2006 3:46PM

Now I'll never get a chance to hunt that site...

... 'cause I'm gonna jump off the top of the Lanier Bridge on my way home.

lordmarcovan · July 16, 2006 3:46PM

BTW, the Old English "P" is usually seen on old police buttons.

Zot · July 16, 2006 8:29PM

Awesome! The condition of that half cent looks very nice to me, particularly the obverse!

The "P" button/badge looks interesting as well.
Interesting additional info in the links.

Way to go!!!!

Riccar · July 17, 2006 2:52AM

<<The condition while not the best...>>

Have you found better?!

Congrats on the super old U.S. coin!

millennium · July 17, 2006 5:09AM

Riccar...we are pretty lucky down here when it comes to soil damage on coins....The sand this coin was found in is great. It has very little acid content and is on a hill, so it stays pretty dry....Still all in all, I guess it is in pretty darn good shape!

loditom · July 17, 2006 6:02AM

Dude that is one sweet find,congrat's!!HH,Tom

TheGuy · July 17, 2006 6:03AM

Those are some great finds there!

HKnJ · July 17, 2006 7:14AM

SWEET FIND!

goose3 · July 17, 2006 11:21AM

that is AWESOME!

phut · July 17, 2006 11:55AM

Cool site and sweet finds millennium.

lordmarcovan · July 17, 2006 5:00PM

I have never owned a half cent of that type, let alone DUG one.

Steve, you do realize that this is possibly your most valuable coin find yet, probably worth even more than the two goldies you dug?

Figuring on VG prices, it is probably a $500+ coin, even dug. I think VGs go $700+ nondug. Even if one only graded it G4 with environmental damage, that is one helluva find.

That detector has paid for itself for sure, now, as if the two goldies hadn't already paid for it.

Oh, it is official, now- I will be the owner of a GTI-2500 myself, in a week or two. Swapped some coins to John (goldrush) for his. He is getting another 'tector.

millennium · July 17, 2006 6:32PM

I was wondering just how much it would be worth...It's got environmental damage, that can be seen, but not too bad as to make it undesirable. I would never sell it though, you know how that is, it's like a child of mine now....As I have said before....if a coin is in the ground, and I sweep over it, I have all the confidence in the world my GTi will find it.

Now the best part of this site....I am 100% confident it has never been searched until I did it, and I only spent about 2 hours at it and one heck of a lightening storm came up.....The bluff and the area I found the half cent has "that feeling"..you know. I am certain that there is probably a post hole bank or buried caches there......it's too remote and too far from a bank to make it feasible for someone that had money, (and the owners did back then), to go to a bank...So far, we are welcome, but I am worried that if we go too often we are going to arouse suspicion. Gregg was hysterical when I found the coin, he actually was the one that recovered it from the hole. I pinpointed it and he did the digging...I thought it was a button at first. He was holding it trying to see a date....then he said...."United States of America".....1794!..

I was hunting in Coin Mode, really not looking for artifacts. There are however, a lot of bullets there.....The members of the Satilla Hunting club do shoot in there a lot. The area has some earth mounds, and there is are lot of old English brick in there....(I know....I was drooling the whole time)....

lordmarcovan · July 17, 2006 6:53PM

Gaaah, I am still kicking myself for not going. If it had only been 24 hours later, I would've had the day off, but it came between two graveyard shifts. I had a feeling you would be rained on but in retrospect, I think it was worth it, eh?

I still wanna see your dug lovelies, including the latest addition, and PLEASE give me another chance to head out there with you the next time you go!

millennium · July 17, 2006 7:07PM

Oh yea....you're going, no doubt. Too much area for just me to hunt. It was hot as he** though in the woods. Lots of humidity and no wind....at least until the rains came.

...

lordmarcovan · July 17, 2006 7:12PM

Yeah, knowing it was gonna be a scorcher and knowing I hadn't slept after getting off at 7 AM, besides hearing it was gonna rain, were all factors in my decision not to go. But taken individually, none of those would have stopped me. Had I not been preoccupied with a coin project and needing some shuteye, I would've gone anyway. As soon as you started talking about tabby and old brick, I was interested.

Speaking of which, there are both on this site Billy and I have been hunting near my house. Haven't gone back there since the day after my last Digger's Diary report (when I found the silver dime). But the next day was mostly sweaty and uneventful, except for a small brass suspender buckle. Even Billy has struck out the last couple times he went there, at least when I last spoke to him. But of course the spot still has potential, and if you are free to go there sometime, you're welcome to. We can do it sometime when it ain't so hot.

millennium · July 17, 2006 7:29PM

Oh yea....I'm always ready.....It's always a timing issue with me, as you know.....But I'm up for it.

marym · July 17, 2006 8:24PM

What does GTI stand for? That is one sweet coin you found with that machine!!

lordmarcovan · July 17, 2006 8:54PM

GTI= "Graphic Target Imaging", or something like that. The top of the line (GTI) Garrett models have a little graph that not only does the usual target ID functions, but it also tells you the approximate size of the target.

CROCKofCOINS · July 17, 2006 11:10PM

<< GTI= "Graphic Target Imaging", or something like that. The top of the line (GTI) Garrett models have a little graph that not only does the usual target ID functions, but it also tells you the approximate size of the target. >>

What would it tell you on this "cache" :-) It was about one foot down!

Jerry

lordmarcovan · July 18, 2006 12:17AM

That would be "Size E", or "larger than 12 oz. can", if I remember correctly.

Size A is smaller-than-coin, Size B is coin-sized, C is silver-dollar-sized, I think, D is can-sized, and E is bigger. Something like that.

So if the GTI picked those cans out individually, they would probably read as size D. Together, they would read as E.

Me, I'm all about those Size A and Size B targets.

millennium · July 18, 2006 4:14AM

LOL....LM's right..It would have said the target was too big to be a coin....There's a learning curve on this detector, but as with all of them, the more you use it, the better you become.

CROCKofCOINS · July 18, 2006 11:52AM

<< LOL....LM's right..It would have said the target was too big to be a coin....There's a learning curve on this detector, but as with all of them, the more you use it, the better you become. >>

Cool___ Thank You :-)

Jerry

TheKidCollector1991 · July 19, 2006 5:59AM

I'm going to puke!
Woah!!

goldrush00013 · July 20, 2006 2:23AM

That's a winner!!

Nice work Steve!

lordmarcovan · July 21, 2006 1:05AM

<< I'm going to puke!
Woah!! >>

Imagine how I must feel.

gregorio41 · July 21, 2006 1:34AM

Did u need permission to search the place ?

lordmarcovan · July 21, 2006 2:35AM

He has permission.

That's the thing, though- the guy who invited him there has an unusual schedule (to say nothing of Steve and I having weird and often conflicting schedules), so opportunities to hunt the place will be limited.

I just hope I get another invitation.

millennium · July 21, 2006 5:43AM

<< Did u need permission to search the place ? >>

Yea.....the guy I went with's aunt USED to be the caretaker there...she knows the current caretaker, and she asked them if it was alright for her nephew and I to hunt there....On the weekdays, a group of people from Florida and Georgia use it as a hunting/fishing club. It is only searchable after 12:00 noon on Sundays...That's the biggest problem, along with LM and my schedules...It's a great site, obviously, and it will be searched again. Another great thing, is the river that runs right by it too....ALL kinds of places to look.

lordmarcovan · July 21, 2006 6:54PM

<< That's the biggest problem, along with LM and my schedules... >>

Hmm. The next time you go and hunt that site, if I am scheduled to work, I predict I'm gonna suddlenly fall very sick with a 24-hour flu bug. Terribly unpredictable, those sudden viruses, y'know...

millennium · July 22, 2006 12:54PM

<< I predict I'm gonna suddlenly fall very sick >>

sirlamre · August 9, 2006 4:08AM

<< AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I WAS GONNA GO WITH HIM, BUT I CANCELED!

>>

ROFL!!!! <sigh... poor Rob...>

FoundingFather · August 11, 2006 8:07AM

Man, I am jealous! I used to metal detect - in fact, I used to post in this forum a few years back. I never found anything as cool as that half cent, that's for sure! I can confirm: you do suck! I'm a colonial coin collectors, so we are talking about some impressive sucking!

LittleBitOEverything · August 12, 2006 8:50AM

That is an awesome find

..U don't see to many of them coming out of the ground at all now do we

Speechless..

just give him the banner now..don't even need to run a best coin

LM...you're gonna be sick........

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