The Fog
Jr. Member
Hello tnetters, I don't post very often, I'm more of a sandbagger! I hunt with Brian W who has posted some of his finds here before. Today we hit an area we've had our eye on for quite some time and it didn't disappoint. An hour into the hunt Bri comes walking down a hill towards me with an incredible button.... I'll wait for him to post that if he chooses to. It was quite a nice button to say the least. Anyway I'd been digging shotgun shell after shotgun shell, flashing, lead pieces, can tops etc. With little light left in the day I found a complete colonial shoe buckle, very nice shape, my day was made, I was happy with just that. The sun was dropping behind the horizon and I was content with my buckle and an undetermined Indian head penny. Just before i was ready to leave I got a decent signal but it was reading only and inch deep, I kicked the leaves and pine needles aside to get to hard earth. I swung the area of bare dirt and the signal was gone. I checked the debris pile of leaves and pine needles... I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw the 16! This coin was barely below the surface. Unfortunately I have some light scratches on it from brushing the leaves and pine needles away. I have no idea what variety it is or if it's a counterfeit. Brian told me to post it here and Iron Patch would be the guy to ID it. Anyway, we had a great day and it was amazing to find this coin.
Breezie
that is long time not to find anything to post up a thread 
Not only did we talk about it, and even post pictures, it's part of the main question about it being 17.1. When you do read the thread you will see a big part of the history of Noe 17 was a die clash. This damaged the die and the coins never came out the same again and it seems quite apparent how things might have changed when you see the two 17 types I posted. The big question is at the time of the die clash were they repaired and altered in such away to change the detail slightly to show the slight differences we see on the 17s today, as compared to the dug coin if it is 17.1 and was originally how it should have looked before the die clash. At this point who knows... could be ctft, could be a new variety, but because the detail is so close, and the variety has the die clash history, what makes the most sense to me by process of elimination is it's 17.1. It sure would be great to see a picture of it because you could likely say yes or no in a few seconds given the slight changes that we all agree are there. The coin has been posted in front of people who do have the reference material to most likely get to the bottom of it, but they are just not close to that reference material! Never the less, someone will ID it soon, probably today I would think, so we should find out the answer. Whatever it is, it seems like a period coin so will be a winner no matter what. Not near as many OT sixpences around as I thought before this thread got posted and I started reading about them.
