colonial coin pocket spill

leddel

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well upon request from a few good people i decided to post a colonial copper coin spill i found two saturdays ago . this was found at a cellar site that been detected many time by others and was my second time there .

anyway after a several hours at another spot my buddy and i decided to hit one more site before calling it quits for the day . i hinted at this place as it had alot of area and we were only there one other time and it was very close by.

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it was a big center chimney colonial and we found a few buttons last time , well we split up and i was detecting basically alone for about an hour and a half. i started working an area slowly when i got a great high coin sounding target at around 6 inches i was really thinking a nice silver piece and out popped this

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i was very excited to see these , but by their dark color i just knew there was morein the hole

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three more coppers proved me right , wow now i was really floored .
unable to see what they were because of the thick corrosion but they were large coins and i just assumed they were matron head type large cents. later i found out i was wrong and learned that they were a King George III copper , a New Jersey copper and 4 fugio pennies . a real colonial coin spill and my largest multiple coppers in one hole .

heres what they looked like when they got home

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the next job was trying to i.d. the varieties and then tackling the job of cleaning them. well after almost two weeks they are nearly there .

heres a some pictures of them individually
the 1774 King George III
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the 1788 New Jersey copper
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a clubed ray fugio
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another fugio
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third fugio
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last fugio
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if any one can tell the varieties as i'm a little confused on two of the fugios it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks all for the nice comments on the other forums .

Dan
 

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Iron Patch

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leddel said:
hogge said:
VLACK 3-74A. The 3-74 has a stop between the III and REX.......Also the stop lines up with the tip of the nose. Everything is a match. www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/NYC-Vlack.intro.html - Coin is attributed as a James Atlee Group I.

thanks hogge ,
heres the only picture of one i have Patch.



Yep, I was definitely not looking at that variety, just thought I had seen it and ruled it out. All you have to see the the die crack and it's ID'ed. (assuming it was the only use of both dies) Pretty good find, think that was Very Rare under coinfacts wasn't it.
 

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In Breens they only have pictured an 8-74 and not a 3-74 so I had to go searching. :read2:
 

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Yes.....Very Rare. 13-30 known or an R-6. There was on in a Stacks auction that sold for 350. BUT.....There were NO pics???? :icon_scratch: This coin has some great detail. Looks good!
 

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that looks like great fun!
nice job on the cleaning.
hope that kgIII turns out to be
something worth swaddling.
 

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hogge said:
Yes.....Very Rare. 13-30 known or an R-6. There was on in a Stacks auction that sold for 350. BUT.....There were NO pics???? :icon_scratch: This coin has some great detail. Looks good!

Yep, it's the leader of the pack so far. :thumbsup:
 

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AWESOME :headbang: BANNER :hello2:
 

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If this was a pocket drop of 6 crusty old dateless unidentifiable coppers, it would be news worthy enough. But this is off the scale !!! This has to make the Banner :icon_thumleft: :icon_thumleft: :icon_thumleft:
 

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Iron Patch said:
hogge said:
Yes.....Very Rare. 13-30 known or an R-6. There was on in a Stacks auction that sold for 350. BUT.....There were NO pics???? :icon_scratch: This coin has some great detail. Looks good!

Yep, it's the leader of the pack so far. :thumbsup:
IP.........Have you ID'ed any of the Fugios yet?
 

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hogge said:
Iron Patch said:
hogge said:
Yes.....Very Rare. 13-30 known or an R-6. There was on in a Stacks auction that sold for 350. BUT.....There were NO pics???? :icon_scratch: This coin has some great detail. Looks good!

Yep, it's the leader of the pack so far. :thumbsup:
IP.........Have you ID'ed any of the Fugios yet?


I'm not looking. Too busy in another window, just checking in once and a while.
 

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New Jersey is a Maris 67-v. R-1....Very Common. I think Don will confirm also. :wink:
 

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Bloody heck that's a find of a lifetime and all in one hole. I vote Banner :hello2:
 

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Know nothing about the coins :-\ but judging by the replies, from those who do know...Banner :icon_thumleft: looks like some further cleaning and sealing might be needed, but any way just wanted to say that's a great haul :notworthy:

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