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Vermont Finds......
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I had to go to Vermont about a month ago on Business. I was there for 3 weeks. I took my detector along and managed to find quite a bit of stuff. The first photo is more modern stuff that I found hitting old schools and parks. The ugly green discs at the top are Indian Heads. The large coin is an 1890 Canadian large cent.
The next group of finds all came from a cellar hole that I found out in the woods. I asked some guys I was working with if they ever run across old stone line foundations out in the woods while deer hunting. One of them gave me a lead on the site I found all of this stuff at. I had to hike in about a mile to find it. All of this stuff came in about 6 hours of hunting. Nearest I can tell based on the finds it was abandoned around 1830 or 40.
Photo1 is the buttons I found...The large ones are about the size of a half dollar.
Photo2 is coins I found...2 connecticut coppers 1 Large cent and 2 unidentifiable coppers.
Photo 3 and 4 is a better photo of the better Connecticut I found.
And the last photo is misc. finds. Check out the nice crude pewter spoon.
The next group of finds all came from a cellar hole that I found out in the woods. I asked some guys I was working with if they ever run across old stone line foundations out in the woods while deer hunting. One of them gave me a lead on the site I found all of this stuff at. I had to hike in about a mile to find it. All of this stuff came in about 6 hours of hunting. Nearest I can tell based on the finds it was abandoned around 1830 or 40.
Photo1 is the buttons I found...The large ones are about the size of a half dollar.
Photo2 is coins I found...2 connecticut coppers 1 Large cent and 2 unidentifiable coppers.
Photo 3 and 4 is a better photo of the better Connecticut I found.
And the last photo is misc. finds. Check out the nice crude pewter spoon.
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Jerry
Lafayette Grading Set
I can see I DID miss some excitement while I was gone!
I'd have been over the moon with a CT copper! Awesome!
You gotta love them big flat buttons, too. Any time those big 'uns come up, you know the big copper coins are nearby, too. The flat buttons were really big in the late 1700s and got smaller later.
One time, back in '95 or so, at a Rev War era shipyard site down here, I found one, and my heart stopped, because I thought I had my first large cent. But then I saw the shank on the back.
Then, about ten feet away, a similar signal at nine inches deep produced what I thought was an identical button. But no shank.
It was my long-awaited large cent! A Draped Bust, too. You could see Liberty's hair bow and read ONE CENT on the back, sort of. It had gotten below the brackish marsh water table, though, and was pretty corroded. Sadly, I ruined it while trying to electrolysize it, so I'll never know the date. 1796-1807. That's all I know. It remains my oldest US coin find to date. (My oldest readably-dated US coin being an 1829 half dime and my oldest dated coin, period, being a 1658 Spanish 4-maravedis).
(But I live too far away.)
RickO, where in the Catskills are you moving to? That's a great area, I drive through it en route to Lake George mutliple times a year-very historic too, if they let you detect you'll probably find some really cool stuff! There's a lot of spots on the national and state historic register and they might not want you digging there-I don't really know.