One of my finds this last week

millennium

I did get to go out last week.....I stay so busy right now, it's hard to squeeze in the time...I was fortunate enough to get to go with another member on another forum....The Garrett forum....we hunted here locally, and I got to run my updated GTi 2500...the more I use this machine, I realize the potential it now has...I can run the sensitivity now at around 6.5 where before it was 10.0...I found a lot of newer clad and cents, but this was recovered from a small park that I used to hunt....It's been burned, and the lot it was on used to have a house on it...Burned perhaps????


Other than the bubbles on the surface from heat...it looks good.

ricko

Interesting... try putting it into a potato for 10-12 hours.... Cheers, RickO

madmacabre

always in moderation , Ive heard the potato will eventually eat away at the patina of the coin. i would check it ever 3 to 4 hours

ricko

Good point MM... although usually, on dug coins, there is not much hope of any patina remaining. Cheers, RickO

bsshog40

Cool Find. I've only found two wheat cents. A 1919 and a 194??? It's soaking in olive oil.

speer34

Very nice Indian Millennium. I have yet to find one. Personally, if that coin was the first Indian I found, I would probably leave it as it is--my luck I would end up screwing it up and be mad at myself.

With that being said, I keep having a nightmare that goes something like this--I'm out hunting and I get a solid sounding signal (quarter/dime--either or, you pick) and as I'm digging, I slip with the lesche and scratch the coin. As soon as I get it out, I see that I have just found my first Barber---with a BIG, HUGE gouge mark on the obverse.

When the time comes and I dig my first Barber, I sure do hope I'm in the right frame of mind and don't half-as* it.

millennium

<< <i>I slip with the lesche and scratch the coin >>



LOl...been there...I scratched the reverse of this...see across the shield?




The back of this....




Through the date o f this...




It happens...