The first penny I found today was just. . . HUGE!

[watercolor]

Today was fun. . . I had breakfast this morning with Kimsdad, Mayo and Lowbatts and
were then later joined by DP-Bob. We all headed out to a camp that had been impossible
to hunt during the summer because of all the overgrown vegetation & poison ivy so we
thought this might be the perfect place to end the season. . . if it's going to end .

I was walking along an old path and got a perfect 88 VDI. . . which I thought would be a
clad quarter. . . I was wrong. . . it turned out to be my oldest and largest penny ever!
When I first held it in my hand, I thought it was a horse rosette until I saw the stars
and the Liberty profile. I had just found my first Large Cent and my oldest coin. . . ever

Thanks for looking!

[DigginThePast]

Nice find along with good times with friends. Congrats.

[kimsdad]

WOW!!!

Am I ever glad I was there to see that one come up! I heard this yelling over my headphones & threshhold - there you were 300 feet away yelling "Large Cent!"

Congrats on the great find, buddy!!!

She's got lots of detail!

I'm really glad you grabbed her!

[Brett]

Congrats Mark!!!! That's one nice LARGIE!!!!

[etrac007]

CONGRATS ON ALSO FINDING YOUR FIRST LARGE CENT! THATS GOING TO LOOK GREAT IN YOUR DISPLAY TABLE. GREAT DETAIL AND A NICE DATE .

[justdigging50]

Nice find! Great detail on the coin, it looks Fantastic That's finishing the year large. Congrats

[litefire56]

Wow! Beautiful large cent!!!
So, it must have not been too deep with solid readings... or?

WTG Mark, I can't wait to dig one.

[AmericanCoinHunting]

Great find..........Congrats on your first LARGE cent watercolor.........Thats on my wish list as well

[p2c]

Great Find Watercolor!
Large Cents are always a good find and yours looks to be in fairly decent shape for being copper in the ground for so many years.

[ivan salis]

nice very nice indeed

[DPBOB]

Welcome to the L C CLUB......

What a fantastic find...

That had to be laying in the ground all those years...

Maybe dropped by the first settlers of the property.....or it may have been dropped by a person
building the original house.....

Congrats on your first LC

[ivan salis]

dp bob --time to get that gal some "anger manangement" classes

[Pocket Spill]

Fantastic Big Penny! Congratulations!

[treasurefiend]

Awesome job buddy, BIG TIME congrats on joining the LC Club!!!!!!

[Lookn4Seated]

Way to go on a spectacular find.

[Lowbatts]

Yeah Baby!

She celaned up pretty nice too!

Well if you don't get out again this year that's what I'd call a big finish!

[cntrydncr1]

beautiful detail on that coin! congrats

[mikewaz]

Congrats Mark!
That's gotta be one of the nicer ones dug that I've seen so far.
Mike

[twistidd]

That IS one huge penny! Wow, congratulations, Mark! What a way to top off a great year. Seems a lot of people lately have been finding large cents. I walked right over one just over a week ago

It sure did clean up nice, but then all of your coins do using the watercolor method. Sorry I couldn't get out with you, after this week finals are over!!!

Joe

[watercolor]

Thanks everyone for all the comments. . . every once and awhile (like every 20-minutes )
I have to pick that LC up and just look at it and wonder how something that big could get lost.

So, it must have not been too deep with solid readings... or?

There was only about 2-inches of snow on path I was hunting and the coin was only about
3" or 4" down however, the soil was fairly compacted. The 88 reading I got was really solid
in several directions which made me think it was a clad quarter.

Take care everyone. . . (still should be a few good hunting days left )