Colonial Copper Zeus
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It's going to rain on Sunday so the twins and I decided to do a permission mission and detectathon all at once today. The first place we tried was a bust. The landowner was not home for the second week in a row. The second place we had better luck and was close to the site where 2 weeks ago Kyle and I found a few coppers. We began at the new site by spreading out and blitzing the field. Nothing but sporadic signals and a severely corroded Memorial penny and victorian era copper or brass spoon. In other words skunksville. We decided to mosy over to the previous site where 2 weeks ago I found the Draped Bust and Braided hair largies. I wasn't swinging 5 minutes and found a decent if broken large Tombac button. Good sign. 20 minutes later I found what would turn out to be one of my best coppers ever. A beautiful 1749 KG II Farthing. It was 4 inches or so deep and worth every drop of perspiration that I excreted today. What a stunner and as Kyle said numerous times today...It beat the odds. Meaning it is no worst for the wear for the 250 plus years it waited patiently for this Homo Sapien to free it frrom the dirt. Fertilizer usually plays havoc on our Pa. farmfields coins. Our clubs first confirmed Farthing and I couldn't be more pleased about that. Hope every one enjoys this post.
Chris
***I was reading about British coinage sent to the colonies and gleaned this little nugget. Most likely where and when my Farthing came to America.***
In 1749, the largest shipment of British coppers to be sent to the colonies arrived in Boston on the ship Mermaid. The British parliament sent Massachusetts Bay almost two long tons of Spanish silver coins (650,000 ounces in 217 chests) as well as ten long tons of English coppers (in one hundred casks), in order to reimburse the Colony for the assistance it provided to the Louisburg Expedition on Cape Breton Island, Novia [sic] Scotia, during the French and Indian War. The coppers included over 800,000 halfpence and more than 420,000 farthings, all dated 1749; approximately thirty percent of the entire mintage for the year.”7
Chris
***I was reading about British coinage sent to the colonies and gleaned this little nugget. Most likely where and when my Farthing came to America.***
In 1749, the largest shipment of British coppers to be sent to the colonies arrived in Boston on the ship Mermaid. The British parliament sent Massachusetts Bay almost two long tons of Spanish silver coins (650,000 ounces in 217 chests) as well as ten long tons of English coppers (in one hundred casks), in order to reimburse the Colony for the assistance it provided to the Louisburg Expedition on Cape Breton Island, Novia [sic] Scotia, during the French and Indian War. The coppers included over 800,000 halfpence and more than 420,000 farthings, all dated 1749; approximately thirty percent of the entire mintage for the year.”7
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I knew we were bound to strike a farthing here in PA! 
The odds the fertilizer get the coins are stacked, so this is a cool save.
This is alot more satisfying than those late largies. I'll take them though to increase my copper total. Hope to see you posting soon.
with excellent detail good find 
nice looking coin
