1737 King George II Colonial Copper From The Dirt Road

[bookfisher]

Got back today to the field with the dirt roads where I found the 1877 Seated Quarter yesterday. Hit a promosing area off the roads, where I was hitting some 19th century junk, but the growth was too thick so I moved back onto the dirt road. I was passing a spot where I haphazardly hunted yesterday, but I slowed down a bit and was more methodical when I got a strong, but iffy, midrange shallow signal. Thinking maybe I had a flat button or some other incidental piece of 19th century metal, I was once again pleasantly surprised that the target turned out to be a coin and it was a King George II copper! As soon as I dug it, I knew I had a George II, but it was too dirty and corroded to tell if the date was visible. It wasn't till I got it home tonight and cleaned it in hot peroxide (and a light brillo cleaning) that I was able to clearly read the date. Needless to say, I was pretty psyched. Also found some buttons, relics, a badly corroded Shield Nickel (1866-1883), and a 1984 clad quarter, that reminded me not too get my hopes up too high on those quarter signals.

 

[Colonial Zoyboy]

Great copper, man, great copper! The date is perfectly readable.

zoyster...BDD

 

[Roger Mn.]

Looks like it's in nice condition.Real nice find.

 

[t-bucket]

Thats awesome ,I wish we had coins that old.Good luck on your next hunt.

 

[crocop]

Very nice, that beats my 1785 Nova Constellatio from last week.
CC

 

[panzermeyer]

Homerun !!! HH....Panz

 

[Mona Lisa]

Oh yea...Bookfisher does it again!! Way to go!

 

[imafishingnutt]

man im lucky to get past 1929 here...lol

 

[azmetaldetector]

SWEET!!!...every time I read one of your posts I regrret not even thinking about metal detecting when I lived on LI back in the ealry 1990s....when I had all SORTS of time to do it..(no family).

 

[Evolution]

Nice copper bookfisher. Great condition, especially the back of the coin. I wonder what other treasures that road is holding?

 

[pulltabsteve]

Bookfisher, I would be more than happy to weedwack that whole area for you. Where is the exact location? Great, great finds! Congratulations!

 

[CarolinaDigs]

Great find

 

[romeo-1]

Now that's the ind of Geo. I'm looking for...perfectly readable! Nice find!

 

[Rebel Man]

Book,
Fine job on the recovery of the coin, and nice job gettin the date to show, its always a thrill when ya see the patina of copper poppin out of the hole! Yea man!
Hope to get out in the woods tomorrow, neck is still a little stiff from the shot today.
Rebel Man
Out in the woods & fields

 

[Merf]

Fantastic find

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Awesome KGII, buddy. It looks to be in decent shape. You rock!

BDD...Kirk

 

[Don in SJ]

The beauty of another colonial copper being posted. Congrats, waiting to see a few more before you are done there.

Not sure if anyone ever noticed but KGII coppers in general are usually found in much better condition thatn KGIII, and the reason is simple. A very high percentage of KGII coppers are Regal, meaning thicker, proper copper content, which gives them an edge of the KGIII coppers which are over 95% (100% in my survey) counterfeits which is thinner, lightweight and lots of times less pure copper.

Your 1737 is a nice one , lots of detail left!!!

Don

 

[halfdime]

My standard "very nice" just doesn't seem adequate!

 

[funkman]

that is one great find Bookfisher!!!!!

Congrats!!

Funkman

 

[LI Tom]

Another super find Bill,that reverse is in sweet shape.In about 6 weeks a lot of growth will have died off and more of the site will be open to detect.