Westernlegend1
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Ever wonder what is possible to find in the area where you hunt? I am talking about older coin types that you have not as of yet found. The age of occupation in the United States is of course much older in the East than most of the land West of the Mississippi River. Exceptions in coin finds do occur from time to time. A friend in Minnesota that I know of had found a Conn. Copper, that as far as I know of, is his oldest coin find. It was most likely dropped by a fur trapper long ago. My oldest U.S. coin had pre-dated the founding of the city I had once lived in and was older than the forming of that particular state. The oldest coin I had found was from 1821-1840, but the actual date was worn off, but enough detail was there to determine what the coin was from France.
I had at one time formed a list of coin types that I figured were still in the ground in the area where I lived. I found some of them, but others still remained on that list. So what is on your list of obtainable coins type finds? An example would be if your home town was founded in the 1850?s, do you have the twenty cent piece and silver 3 center on your list?
I had at one time formed a list of coin types that I figured were still in the ground in the area where I lived. I found some of them, but others still remained on that list. So what is on your list of obtainable coins type finds? An example would be if your home town was founded in the 1850?s, do you have the twenty cent piece and silver 3 center on your list?