1793 Flowing Hair Wreath Cent

[Bell]

Hi gang. Sorry I haven't posted lately. Figured I'd better share this one. Found Friday in NC.

 

[BigWaveDave]

wait for it.....

 

[Argentium]

Sounds wonderful !- should be a banner find (with images )

 

[Bell]

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[Bell]

Sorry I had a really hard time getting the picture to post.

 

[BigWaveDave]

it was worth the wait....she is a beautie!!! congrats on a great find!!!

 

[Greatday05]

Nice find! I have a question. How did it look when it came out of the ground? Did you have to clean it and if so, how? The reason I ask is I have five large cents that I dug up this year, six if you count the 1917 Canadian penny. The last one was last night, and it has a lot of crusty patina on it. I don't want to do anything to that would make id-ing it impossible, or harder than it has to be.

 

[Bell]

Thanks Dave! I was def pumped. It was pretty toasted. I was not able to tell what it was till I had been working on cleaning it back home for a while. You can't really tell anything from the back except that it is wreath and not chain. BUT I took it to the Charlotte coin show Saturday and discovered it still had some pretty substantial value even in its condition.

 

[Bell]

I def had to clean it, but I'm no expert. I cleaned this one with hot peroxide and soft toothbrush, but what really brought out detail was a soft brass brush which everyone will rightly tell you is a bad idea. But brass is softer then copper and it works for me. Swab with olive oil after brings out detail. The guys at the coin show told me acetone bath is the way to go on removing green crud, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

[Threshold]

AmaIng find! Congrats

 

[Ahab8]

Hey Bell that's an awesome find! Congrats on finding something that most of us will never find. Just a thought but I have a buddy that owns a coin shop and he's got a microscope for viewing a coins surface to see micro scratches and to decipher grades. He let me use it to take pics of a couple of coins I found and it's amazing the detail you can see. If you could get that baby under a microscope you may be able to see a lot that you can't with the naked eye. Here's a couple pics just to show you examples














Again that's a great find and definitely has value due to its rarity. Awesome awesome awesome

 

[Vino]

Awsome find!!!! But if I was you stop doing anything else to it....And a brass brush will destroy the coin...Ive done it....In that condition the coin is worth around 1000 to 2000 dollars....Great save..
George.

 

[Bell]

Thanks!

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Huge Congrats , rare flowing hairs are starting to show up here as often as the elusive GW inaugural butt'ns

Well Done

dawg

 

[MichiganMan]

You've got my vote for Banner. Although three good pictures of front, back and the edge, and a little story to boot would make me whistle! Congratulations on a superb find.

Sorry, I haven't used coinspeak since the early 80's: I meant pictures of the obverse, reverse, and edge.

 

[Argentium]

Well with that image- I'll certainly give you a BANNER vote - one of the earliest dates possible for an American coin - not too many of these
appear on t-net - Congratulations on a rare find ! The site where you found this may hold more incredible finds .

 

[Mduece]

Awesome find congrats

 

[testing123]

nice coin!

 

[hogge]

A bucket list coin for me! Great Find!!

 

[Bell]

Thanks everyone. I have more photos but that's really the best, I may try to post more tomorrow but I'm no photographer and the coin was wear worn. Fortunately being one of the rarer US coins all that mattered was being able to tell what it was to ID it. Good story. We were in a spot where we needed to come up with some cash to make ends meet and I was planning on selling my machine. I've detected since I was seven and my wife knows how important it is to me so she insisted that I go out Friday one more time to see if I could turn up something to make ends meet. Now as you all know we don't find anything of serious value for years at a time, and I generally don't sell finds regardless, but I was happy to have one last dance with a machine I love. I had gotten permission on a vacant lot I knew no history on, and a stream where a rev war mill had been. Plan was to hit the lot early before it got hot and hope for some scrap silver before I moved to water hunting the stream. I got out to the lot and the first target was a rose head nail so I thought ok. Second target was a colonial knee buckle I hit with my shovel so I thought heck I'm on to something. About three feet away I turned up the coin with a few shards of colonial pottery in the hole. It was too encrusted to tell what it was but needless to say I hunted there all day and roughed out the heat. My only copper previously had been a Mexican colonial although I have found a few reales, so I was excited, but I did not know what I had until I cleaned it up that night. I obviously got very excited and knowing there was a coin show in charlotte the next day I set out in the morning. I got it evaluated by probably fifteen different dealers and ended up taking the best offer. It was very difficult to part with one of my best finds, but the timing was a blessing and the story is too good not to share. Also I get to go right back to that spot this weekend!