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:
