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Glancing up from his search of a Civil War camp, Ron Stump saw a familiar face approaching. The two had "talked detecting" on a number of occasions, and when the other fellow offered to take him to a different hunting spot a couple of miles away, Ron agreed. When they arrived at the wooded location, he learned that it included not only a Union camp but a pre-Civil War house site. True, it had already been heavily hunted and given up some really nice stuff, but the potential was still there. After finding a shotgun shell, Ron got another signal and dug through 4" of hard, dry ground to claim a Liberty Cap large cent dated 1794- only the second year that the U.S. minted large cents. Though not heavily worn, the coin has a fair amount of surface porosity and some light corrosion (particularly on the reverse), resulting in an overall grade of Good... and good enough to make it Ron's best coin for 1997!
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