If Nate can do it then so can I

Well Nate went out to hunt a particular spot but all the people at the place he wanted to detect prevent this. So he went to the local "hunted out" school. He came home with a silver rosie and a merc. Wow, I thought, if he can do it then shouldn't I be able to at least find one? Turns out I was right. I found the Silver Rosie in the same hole with the 1959 penny.

After 5 years - oldest coin yet!

We had Easter at our house this year. A few days afterward I had to return the table I borrowed to my mom. Since the weather was decent I figured I might as well do a little detecting. I started in the back and fairly soon found a wheat penny. This was surprising but then I found another penny. I dug some more junk in the area and as I was about to leave the thought struck me: “If I found this stuff in the back maybe there might still be some finds in the front where we found all the good stuff”.
Sure enough, after 5 minutes I got a good signal, dug it and couldn’t believe I found a Large Cent.
1835! Wow, I thought, after 5 years we just now find the oldest coin!
The back doesn’t look to good.


Here is the spot where I found it (in the center of the four flags). All the red flags mark iron signals. That is why we missed it all these years - iron masking. The Large Cent itself was within a few inches of a nail.


Some other stuff from another hunt at my moms: