Early coin

[ravenguide]

Greetings,
I was out early and picked this up , I can not make out anything,but a great find,believe it to possibly be
a 1700's penny..maybe?

 

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[Don in SJ]

Congratulations, you have found a 1785-1788 Connecticut State Copper, WTG.

Don

 

[kane23]

It's no doubt a 1787 Conneticut copper, way to go....Kane23

 

[Hunter]

Congratulations nice find!

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Congrats on the copper!

 

[Detectingfreak]

Thats awesome! If you really want to clean the coin here is some ways that this one guy cleans coins on our forum and they turn out spectacular!

I use limeaway gel on nickles.
Baking soda and water on silver.
The 3 corroded silver I actually had to use a little electrolysis first.

 

[Derek752]

Congrats Ravenguide on a NICE Connecticut coppa !

9 times outta 10 when ya dig a coppa upstate Ny its gonna be a King George or Lg Cent.

State coins are rarer
Great find !!

D.

 

[Ron B]

Be careful!
Don't attempt cleaning that coin!
It may be valuable; check with a local reputable coin dealer and let him advise you.

Great find!
GRB

 

[lonewolfe]

Nice find

HH

 

[ravenguide]

Thank you all for assisting me in this, I really do not know how you guys figure these things out!
Greg

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Awesome Conn. coppa, dude!

I love those State copps!

Kirk

 

[Evolution]

On the right (in yellow) you can see where it says C O N N E C. On the left (in red) you can see where it says A U C T O R I. I think I can even see the date (1787) on the bottom of the first picture.

 

[Green1]

sweeeeeet !!!!!

 

[halfdime]

Early is right!

 

[hogge]

AWSOME.......I got a 1787 Conn copper too! Be careful......It could be a RARE one. Mine is a M-33-1-z-19 A rarity of 5 which means about 30-40 of mine exist. Some of these can be ULTRA RARE so consult one of the experts on here (Don is good) before you try to clean it! GREAT FIND!

 

[X-Terra70_TreasureHunter]

Hi goto the local Wal-Mart & purchase kids Play Doh
& try too do some impressions which will end up
being in reverse then photo them after trying to remove
more of the crud from the object.

 

[hollowpointred]

nice find! its always fun to dig a colonial copper coin! i agree with the others, most definitely a Connecticut copper.