kelpike
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I've been hunting the yard of a house we have been working on for a few weeks. The house is the first or second house built in that town and has some decent history. So far I have only found 3 old horseshoes, a completely shot rusted pocket watch, a few pieces of lead pipe, a few newer coins, many rusted cans, and a ton of rusted chunks of steel. I was about to leave the job and decided to search for a half hour or so. When I was done hunting and decided to leave I had another signal that sounded decent. It ended up being an Indian Head Penny. I was pretty excited to finally find an old coin on that property. After rechecking the hole I ended up finding 8 more IHP in a space about the size of a table place mat. I searched all around that area and found one more less than two feet away from the first hole. They are in pretty rough shape. After only rinsing under the faucet, the top 2 show dates of 1891 and 1883. The bottom 2 are unrecognizable. Hopefully with some cleaning I can get a few more dates off of them. The next day I fanned farther out from where those were found and about fifteen feet away I found 8 more. Not all in one hole but very close to each other. The second batch are also in very rough shape. I can only read one date, 1889. I can't imagine how 18 pennies were lost in an area like that but no other coins were there.
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