An Old lady and 1 fat injun and 1 skinny one

[WeaponUSMC]

Got out to my ghost town today with acouple of buds. Yesterday I had broke my oldest coin mark with a fatty either a flying eagle or fatty indian, so I knew it was between 1856-1864, vague but it had to be one of those dates. So today we meet out at the old train depot and start swinging. I struck first with an 1889 Indian (the newest coin actually found there, except one mysterious out of place 1976 penny). About 20 minutes later I hit another signal, this one became my new oldest coin, could read the date clearly, 1860 "fatty" Indian head. About this time I was starting to fear for my life from my digging partners. Now this farmland/ghost town has a railroad depot and 4 or 5 house that were on it. the last dated map I could find with anything built on it was 1870. I have never really detected around where the house's were yet, so me and Jon and my two kids started swinging that way. About 40 minutes later I recieved a very strong quarter signal about 6" down. The meter wasnt swaying at all so I was becomming very excited due to never having dug a silver 1800's coin. About that time Jon piped up and said "its a large cent" and on the next shovel full, out popped my "new" oldest coin to date, an 1851 (I believe) Braided Hair large cent. What an amazing weekend, I have broke my oldest dated coin not once, but three times in two days. HH ya'll.....Bill

[schoser]

a big congrats on those finds... theres an old train depot out here we been checking out too...aren't they fun? hope theres more for you there!

[WeaponUSMC]

This land is all owned by my best friends mother and father, unlimited access. Corn was planted this past year and wheat the year before, so this year is beans, I am actually waiting for them to plow it. The only downside to swinging at a train depot is the amount of IRON, its very hard to decipher the signals. I will most likely be out there again tomorrow doing some swinging, after the morning parade and after I go pay my respect to my fallen brothers and sisters.

[EBCIII]

Congrats on those great finds! I do have a question. Is "Fatty" a term used for the Indians of certain years? Or just something else, like "man that was some fatty music"? As in good? Just wondering, Beale.

[Digging Fool]

I believe you may have diggin' paradise there!

[WeaponUSMC]

"I do have a question. Is "Fatty" a term used for the Indians of certain years?" A fatty is an Indian head between the years 1859-1864, it was much thicker than the Indian heads between 1865-1909. The weight was 4.67 grams for the Fatty's and 3.11 grams for the later years. Hope this helps EBCIII

[Buster]

That was an awesome hunt..congrats..bet you can't wait till they plow those fields...that will be real good..Congrats again...Buster...

[echostar61]

Fantastic Finds, Love the old cents. Cool info on the difference in IH's too. Silver finds are Fantastic , but the old cents really intrique me.

Terri

[Lt1stone]

Nice Finds!

[INDY]

WOW very nice coins you found, and what a great hunting place. WTg and Continued Good Luck