1794 Large Cent found in Atlantic City

[The Jersey DEvil]

This past summer, my brother was searching his front lawn on RT 30 just outside of AC & he popped out one of the most amazing coins ever found in his MD'ing career. It must have been lost new as it is thick as the day it was made, has all it's details & the lettered edge is still readable.

Attached is a pic of it.

Anyway, I bought it off him for $100.00 & I sold it on eBay for $700.00. But I now regret selling it.

 

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[The Jersey DEvil]

OOPS! My apology for the very large pic. Can anyone enlighten me on how to post smaller pics on this forum?

 

[romeo-1]

Looks like a good one!!

 

[goldeagle]

that coin could be worth over 100,000.00 ? if the it had the right wreath on the back. very nice i would have kept it.imo

 

[Curious The George]

That is a large cent alright! Nice find.

 

[CRUSADER]

it should be your brother that regrets selling it

 

[DigginThePast]

What I do to reduce pics:

1) Open the image in paint.
2) Go to "image", wait for the drop down.
3) Click Stretch/Skew.
4) In the box that comes up, change the Horizontal and Vertical size under Stretch (in this case I went from 100% to 25%). Click OK.
5) Save your new file.

That coin was a great find, one I would have held on to.

edit: Welcome to T-Net.

 

[IAsoldier]

Good grief wtg on the score. For me I would of kept it but hey nice find though.

 

[Hans R Dirty]

it should be your brother that regrets selling it

Agreed, nice find too.

 

[Iron Patch]

Yep, and I wouldn't part with it for either of the prices paid.

Good find though!

 

[allen]

welcome to treasurenet
you made a nice profit, but id rather
have that great looking coin !!

 

[creeper71]

That coin shouldn't have been worth NO LESS then 1250.00..looks like the ebay buy got a good deal...

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

I found one just like it that made the banner last month. I sold it for 10 bucks to a guy from Australia....Just kidding. I'll never sell it. You did make a nice profit though.
Chris

 

[The Jersey DEvil]

I shouldn't have sold that coin but I've found a lot of LC's & maybe I'll find one like it someday. At the time I needed money so I took the $700.00 & was happy with making a $600.00 profit. Afterall, it wasn't my find. However, if it was I would have kept it for sure. Anyway, the guy who bought it ended up selling it for $1500.00. So he ended up making $800.00 profit. The coin has a BV of $2K. God only knows where the coin is now but I'm sure it is in good hands.

One great thing I enjoy about the hobby is unearthing something a couple hundred years old & getting it to see the light of day again. Even though that coin is a museum piece, it is now cherished in someones collection & who knows...it may get in circulation again within the collecting comminuty & it may even get lost again. Its all the evolutionary process of a coin.

BTW, my oldest coin found this year is dated 1775 & is a King George copper. It was found near an old foundation in the woods. It was 5 inches deep well preserved in sugar sand in the pines.

At the end of the year I'll tally up all my finds, will take pics & I'm going to write an article & send it in to W&E Treasures for publication consideration. I already had several articles published in the past. One was about the 1882 five dollar gold coin I found. But that is whole other story.

HH

 

[Iron Patch]

I shouldn't have sold that coin but I've found a lot of LC's & maybe I'll find one like it someday. At the time I needed money so I took the $700.00 & was happy with making a $600.00 profit. Afterall, it wasn't my find. However, if it was I would have kept it for sure. Anyway, the guy who bought it ended up selling it for $1500.00. So he ended up making $800.00 profit. The coin has a BV of $2K. God only knows where the coin is now but I'm sure it is in good hands.

One great thing I enjoy about the hobby is unearthing something a couple hundred years old & getting it to see the light of day again. Even though that coin is a museum piece, it is now cherished in someones collection & who knows...it may get in circulation again within the collecting comminuty & it may even get lost again. Its all the evolutionary process of a coin.

BTW, my oldest coin found this year is dated 1775 & is a King George copper. It was found near an old foundation in the woods. It was 5 inches deep well preserved in sugar sand in the pines.

At the end of the year I'll tally up all my finds, will take pics & I'm going to write an article & send it in to W&E Treasures for publication consideration. I already had several articles published in the past. One was about the 1882 five dollar gold coin I found. But that is whole other story.

HH

So how much would you need for the 1775?

 

[jersey devl]

uuuuuhhhhh...are we related?

 

[Iron Patch]

uuuuuhhhhh...are we related?

Yeah, detecting cousins.

 

[pinebarrens1]

RT 30 just outside of AC , has alot of history . just pick up a book of the area and see what else is missing out there .

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Please tell me your brother was OK with you buying the piece for $100 and selling it for $700.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Gotta love that mild soil. Great find, and nice story!