digger27
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A 1912 George V big bronze Penny in really nice shape.
Two mints made these that year, one in London minted 48.3 million but they needed more so they subcontracted out to a private company, the Heaton Mint, and they made only 16.8 million so the rarer of the two.
That tiny H next to the date tells them apart.
The Heaton Mint was in Birmingham England and I found it in a neighbor's lawn here in Birmingham Ala so apt and fitting.
Happy about the big coin but more happy that the Mojave found it easily while it was sitting down there at 5.5" next to something else...might have actually been touching it.
I had been over this lawn before but missed this thing every time...not today.
My gamble on getting the Mojave hoping it would do well in my mineralized and iron infested dirt is continuing to pay off dividends big time.
Two mints made these that year, one in London minted 48.3 million but they needed more so they subcontracted out to a private company, the Heaton Mint, and they made only 16.8 million so the rarer of the two.
That tiny H next to the date tells them apart.
The Heaton Mint was in Birmingham England and I found it in a neighbor's lawn here in Birmingham Ala so apt and fitting.
Happy about the big coin but more happy that the Mojave found it easily while it was sitting down there at 5.5" next to something else...might have actually been touching it.
I had been over this lawn before but missed this thing every time...not today.
My gamble on getting the Mojave hoping it would do well in my mineralized and iron infested dirt is continuing to pay off dividends big time.
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