This past summer, my brother was searching his front lawn on RT 30 just outside of AC & he popped out one of the most amazing coins ever found in his MD'ing career. It must have been lost new as it is thick as the day it was made, has all it's details & the lettered edge is still readable.
Attached is a pic of it.
Anyway, I bought it off him for $100.00 & I sold it on eBay for $700.00. But I now regret selling it.
2009 Find Totals (in progress):
1775 King George copper
3 dollars (2 Presential Washington & 2 Sacagawean)
3 Kennedy clad halves
417 Quarters (3 silver dated '34, '48 & '63)
423 Dimes (includes a few Mercs & silver Roseys)
1 Buffalo (no date)
Nickels ?
Cents ?
1 key
'No good comes from thinking about how much time we waste detecting, as wasted time is good soul time' - me 25/06/08
How do you find Gold coins? Reply: 'By finding lots of Silver ones..'
A real man thinks about detecting every 6 seconds
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That coin was a great find, one I would have held on to.
I found one just like it that made the banner last month. I sold it for 10 bucks to a guy from Australia....Just kidding. I'll never sell it. You did make a nice profit though.
Chris
I shouldn't have sold that coin but I've found a lot of LC's & maybe I'll find one like it someday. At the time I needed money so I took the $700.00 & was happy with making a $600.00 profit. Afterall, it wasn't my find. However, if it was I would have kept it for sure. Anyway, the guy who bought it ended up selling it for $1500.00. So he ended up making $800.00 profit. The coin has a BV of $2K. God only knows where the coin is now but I'm sure it is in good hands.
One great thing I enjoy about the hobby is unearthing something a couple hundred years old & getting it to see the light of day again. Even though that coin is a museum piece, it is now cherished in someones collection & who knows...it may get in circulation again within the collecting comminuty & it may even get lost again. Its all the evolutionary process of a coin.
BTW, my oldest coin found this year is dated 1775 & is a King George copper. It was found near an old foundation in the woods. It was 5 inches deep well preserved in sugar sand in the pines.
At the end of the year I'll tally up all my finds, will take pics & I'm going to write an article & send it in to W&E Treasures for publication consideration. I already had several articles published in the past. One was about the 1882 five dollar gold coin I found. But that is whole other story.
HH
2009 Find Totals (in progress):
1775 King George copper
3 dollars (2 Presential Washington & 2 Sacagawean)
3 Kennedy clad halves
417 Quarters (3 silver dated '34, '48 & '63)
423 Dimes (includes a few Mercs & silver Roseys)
1 Buffalo (no date)
Nickels ?
Cents ?
1 key
I shouldn't have sold that coin but I've found a lot of LC's & maybe I'll find one like it someday. At the time I needed money so I took the $700.00 & was happy with making a $600.00 profit. Afterall, it wasn't my find. However, if it was I would have kept it for sure. Anyway, the guy who bought it ended up selling it for $1500.00. So he ended up making $800.00 profit. The coin has a BV of $2K. God only knows where the coin is now but I'm sure it is in good hands.
One great thing I enjoy about the hobby is unearthing something a couple hundred years old & getting it to see the light of day again. Even though that coin is a museum piece, it is now cherished in someones collection & who knows...it may get in circulation again within the collecting comminuty & it may even get lost again. Its all the evolutionary process of a coin.
BTW, my oldest coin found this year is dated 1775 & is a King George copper. It was found near an old foundation in the woods. It was 5 inches deep well preserved in sugar sand in the pines.
At the end of the year I'll tally up all my finds, will take pics & I'm going to write an article & send it in to W&E Treasures for publication consideration. I already had several articles published in the past. One was about the 1882 five dollar gold coin I found. But that is whole other story.
HH
So how much would you need for the 1775?
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