It makes you wonder what happened to all that old currency. I do metal detecting and have found indian cents, V nickels, seated liberty quarters and even a 3 cent piece. I have never found a 2 cent piece though.
The indian cents you can find almost anywhere there are old houses. The v nickels I found around an old hotel, and the Seated Liberty Quarters and silver 3 cent piece I found at an old Confederate river crossing used by Nathan Bedford Forrest. I found all kinds of interesting stuff there. I found buttons, hundreds of cast bullets, and some kitchen utensils.
I really should have gotten into metal detecting. I'm a serious detritophile, so finding stuff like this makes me go nuts. I asked my parents to get me a metal detector when I was a kid, but they said it was too expensive. I couldn't convince them that it could ultimately pay for itself many times over!
Wow, I had to look that one up. That doesn't happen to me too often. Am I right that you like dead organic particulate matter like leaf litter? I have dug old bottles at dump sites and found really odd stuff. Bottles with pills still in them from the late 1800s, intact shoes, and bottles with their paper labels intact (until they dried out and blew away). I was helping train cadaver dogs once and one of the dogs got a hit in an unexpected area. *We hide body parts months and months in advance for this training. It turned out to be a 1,500 year old indian grave.
I mean detritus as in the stuff you find in the ground that people discarded as junk, or lost. Like old bottles, broken pottery, china, things like that.
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