1831 Large Cent found by Accident

[ridger12]

I was looking for a lost heirloom ring for a friend in an old field yesterday. There was no junk in this field, not shotgun hulls, can slaw, pulltabs, absolutely nothing. I'm sorry to say I didn't find the heirloom ring either but in the middle of this field I get a good goin signal. I figured it had to be a coin that a hunter dropped and out pops a 1831 Large Cent. The property used to be owned by my friends wife's family all the way back into the 1800s so I gave her the coin. It can't replace the lost ring but she was happy to have an ancestors lost coin.

 

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[terryo]

Wow ! That must have been a hard thing to give up, but it was the right thing to do ! Kudo's !

 

[snorton750]

too bad about not finding the ring, but sometimes giving is better than keeping. congrats on the find, I'd love to find something that old here in Wa.

 

[calihunter1958]

You know what they say....Sometimes it's better to be lucky then good

 

[leprechaun]

Exellent coin find.

 

[pumice]

Way kewl on both accounts.......

 

[G.A.P.metal]

good find nice LC

 

[Bbchevelle]

Nice shape! The only one I've ever found came out pretty rough.

 

[nsdq]

well done

 

[oldsalty19]