Breaking The 1800 Barrier

Yesterday's metal detecting hunt unearthed an indian head and 2 cent piece. The Indian dates 1897, and the 2 cent piece is an 1866. I found both of these in Salem, MA, after digging numerous zinc pennies in search of older coins. The indian head and two cent coin (also known as a shield cent) were found within 5 feet of each other, and are the only old coins that I found in this location/ park - not even wheat cents. They both cleaned up very nicely in a hot peroxide bath and some gentle picking with a tooth pic to remove excess dirt without harming the patina. Those photos of the cleaned coins will be posted on the next video, since it took so long to clean them.

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• Metal detecting
• Mding
• fisher f2
• cop
• Indian Head
• 2 cent piece
• 1800 Barrier
• 1866
• Two Cent
• Coin
• Breaking The 1800s Barrier

[photorob06]

Thanks Grayson, too bad they tried to boot you... Guess a lot of ppl don't understand what we do. I have yet to be spoken to by "the men in blue", fingers crossed. HH!

[photorob06]

No.. He was setting a speed trap. I saw him pull out 3 times and ticket people. Once I realized that was his business there I got more comfortable. I always dig carefully to preserve the grass, and there were no signs saying no MD-ing. Thanks for watching!

[garagesalervaughn]

nice finds!

[DigginDeepSouthLA]

thumbs up on 1800 and video

[graysondigger]

Very cool! Don't you just live those cops who have nothing better to do? I actually had one tell me I was destroying government property! LOL! I think he was pissed since metal detecting is allowed in that park and he didn't know it.

[xxfirefighter23x]

did the policeman say anything to you?