Back to our early 1800s farm site.... 1819 LARGE CENT!! possible error coin?

[Evolution]

Got out for a hunt at our early 1800s farm site with my buddy today (FatTony315). I dug a lot of targets...a lot of junk. I thought I was going to have to settle for a few horse tack buckles and several rusty pieces of iron when I got a fairly good hit (65 VDI on the VX3) in the side yard of the house that was pinpointing at about 4 inches deep. The coin must have been on edge because the large cents are usually high 70s to mid 80s on the VDI on this machine. I was definitely happy to see a large copper coin pop out of the side of the hole. I scooped it out of the hole and threw it onto my towel for a picture.



It still has a bit of detail on it and turned out to be an 1819 Matron Head LC. On the reverse where it says one cent the "O" in the one cent seems to be very weakly struck. It almost looks like there is a very weakly struck "S" there that is slightly higher than the N and the E.



I also found a portion of a crotal bell that has half of the makers mark on it so maybe I'll be able to date it.



The only other coin I found today was a 1934 wheatie.



Here;s a compilation picture of todays finds.



Thanks for looking and HH.

 

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[Evolution]

Is there any chance this large cent is an error coin? I enlarged it quite a bit and the "O" in one cent appears to be missing and there is definitely a higher weakly struck letter "S" where the "O" should be. Does anyone else see this?

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[Argentium]

Yeah , the S is clearly visible - gotta be a rare error ! excellent find !! please keep this thread bumped up to the top so enough
people can see this to properly nail down the variation/value .

 

[Jeff H]

Nice digs ! Can't say I have ever seen that error before....This should be interesting! I hope it is a good one !

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

relic Bonanza Hoss !

 

[wvdirtdigger]

That is one nice coin !!! Congrats !!!

 

[cjon455]

very nice LC!, nothin like popping those outta the earth!

 

[Bubba65]

Very nice Largie Congrats

 

[johnnyblaze]

Nice variety of a day man

Blaze

 

[creade]

Waiting for my first one!

 

[pong12211]

That's a nice variety of finds.. Love the coin.. Congrats.

 

[testing123]

Congrats on the LC! Not sure what you have there. Not sure it would be easy to miss an S in the dies... Maybe someone did that post minting? I've seen the E in cent changed to another vowel on large cents.

 

[Erik in NJ]

Could be a filled die or the "O" may just have flaked off. I see a nice rein guide there next to the spoons. Is that a rosette there in your hand as well?

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Here's a couple of sources that may help to ID your croatal bell.

Classic Bells: American Horse Bell Makers

Bells

 

[Fattony315]

Great LC pal, hunting the old farm has been good, I hope that coin is something rare. I think we need to hit it again. I am sure there is another coin waiting to get taken from that ground. That's 4 good ones for us.

 

[Steve in PA]

That looks like a nice day of digging!

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[relicmeister]

Very nice collection of finds,

 

[Evolution]

Here's a couple of sources that may help to ID your croatal bell.

Classic Bells: American Horse Bell Makers

Bells

Thanks for the info Bill. I'll check it out.