Recent Metal Detecting Find: 1795 LC

Fantastic find :o
The coin will have corrosion associated with having been in the ground. Soak it in distilled water then a super soft toothbrush to remove dirt. Soak it for a few days. It will go into a details slab for sure. I'm guessing Fine-VF Details. For this reason, I wish I lived on the East Coast. I do detect for nuggets out West.

It was in a field and actually was tangled in the grass roots about 2 inches deep. I also got a 1895 IH, some flat buttons, a couple of civil war bullets and a silver plate suspender buckle with sailing ships. Needless to say, there will likely be a return trip.

Very cool...thanks for the info. Hearing stories like this makes me want to live out east again and to take up metal detecting. :)

I've become a metal detecting addict since I got a detector last Christmas. So I can really appreciate what it takes to make a find like that! Short of a gold coin, I'd call that a MD find of a lifetime as far as coins are concerned.

Water and a soft brush are worth trying, but I doubt it will clean up all that much doing that. At least I haven't had much luck with wheats that have been in the ground for only a fraction of the time that this coin has.

Here is a link to a website put together by a guy who is a master of cleaning up metal detecting finds. I'm giving this link for info only. I really don't know if I'd try any serious cleaning techniques on this coin. It is more the kind of thing I'd do to clean up a common date silver coin or IHC.

http://metaldetectingworld.com/clea...n_coin.shtml

What kind of metal detector do you use?

Thanks for all of the comments folks.

Adrew: I use a nautilus DMC II b. It works extremely well in the tidewater and low sandy areas on the east coast. Unfortunatly, I'm currently closer to the Appalachians, and the red soil found in some areas here in central virginia doesn't agree with it. Fortunately, the site I'm searching has a rich black loam for the topsoil. I've found that copper coins coming out of the clay rarely have any details, even to the point where I can't tell what variety they are.

Albumcollector: The site is an old plantation home-site. I stumbled upon it looking for civil war relics. I knew from my maps that there was one in the general area, but the section I was hunting is probably about a square mile in area. The old buildings are gone and its now just a grassy field on a hillside.

If you folks are interested, I've got some other items I can post, or you can check out my page on facebook: ryansrelics at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Fa...164412379635 . But alas, I have to go mail some ebay items, hit the bank, then, since schools on fall-break, I'm off to hit the woods with my metal detector again.

Thanks again for all the comments,
Ryan

Wow! I wish we could use detecters around here. Gloucester, York Town, and most historic areas prohibit metal detecting.

thanks pretty awesome, maybe I should try looking one day. doubt I would find anything interesting in NY