173 and counting....a real beauty!

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Miss halfdime joined me for an afternoon of archaeology yesterday (sorry, couldn’t post last night) on a spectacular warm day in still winter, Pennsylvania. I/we have done it all at this site: detecting, dug a privy, sifted soil, excavated and moved stone, etc. Our goal is to clean out the inside of the stone foundation, which had to be two stories easily. We uncovered a doorway into a basement/fruit cellar and are working our way along getting down to the clay layer in the floor. There’s enough room for us to work together and I was the lucky one to spot this large! I wish it had been her; even though she will someday have all my good stuff, she still likes her own discoveries:laughing7:. Also, I’ve probably dug a dozen myself over the years. None of them had this detail. The question is: did this lay where I found it all these years (the house is not visible on photos from the late 1930s), or did it settle there as we dug? Anything in the house when the walls collapsed or were collapsed will be there. We still anticipate a gold piece:laughing7:!
 

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Very nice congratulations
 
Nice! I suspect it was there all along. Hey, I just got to know......What was the destroyed tool that ticked off Floyd?
 
Gotta love those Large Cents! :icon_thumright:
 
Very Nice!!! Great Shape!!! Congrats!!!
 
Nice LC - congrats !
 
Nice! I suspect it was there all along. Hey, I just got to know......What was the destroyed tool that ticked off Floyd?

Floyd was my maternal grandfather, and he was a very creative man. He had built this monstrous wood and iron contraption and we (my brothers and I) decided to help him by dismantling it. At some point in the process, he came outside on his porch (all my life he walked with two canes) and yelled for us to stop. How did we know it was his snowplow, pulled behind his 1946 Ford tractor?:laughing7: The limerick tells the story quite well:laughing7:.
 
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Nice largie! Now what is the significance of the number 173?
 
Look at the detail in her hair! Awesome!!!
 
That's a beautiful old LC- Congrats!!
 
Awesome finds, thanks for posting
 
Great largie. Fun piece of early American history. Nicely done!
 

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