1793 Half Cent

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Well I finally found my first 1700's US coin and it's a good one, only 35,334 minted. It's pretty toasted but I can see the date and the edge lettering is in pretty good shape. When I dug it I didn't know what I had at first I thought it looked a little big for a nickel and gave a signal like a copper coin. When I got it home and started looking at it and comparing it's size to other coins l I noticed the edge lettering. So I started looking through my Red Book for coins with lettered edges but didn't see any pictures of small coins like that. Then I decided to check the size of the early of Half Cents to see if they made any early coins smaller. Well that didn't take long, the very first one was only 22mm and when I read the description it said there was edge lettering that said TWO HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR. I wish it was in better shape but I'm still very excited to have found such a rare coin! By the way I pulled three nails out of the hole before I found the coin, thanks to the XP Deus I had a good signal with all that iron!

 

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Thanks, I don't know if I could have identified it without the edge lettering. I don't kiss and tell and only my coins and I know what happens behind closed doors.

Huh , still a great coin ,

 

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