1808 half cent!

[joad]

They finally mowed a field that had gotten permission to hunt about a month ago, so I decided to hit it for an hour this evening. Only dug 4 targets, the 1st being an 1808 half cent. By far my oldest coin dug! Its pretty crusty, but I'll take it. Don't have much free time to hunt, but I may have to make some now! Also, found some sort of clip. Thx. for lookin.

Joad

 

[teleman 2525]

nice find love those coppers

 

[PANNONIAN]

Great find! I never find one,good for you,and good luck next time.

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice coppa!!!! MR TUFF

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Some 400,000 were struck, although there were 167,000 half cents already sitting idly in storage. Coinage of this final date began with a bold 1808/7 overdate. Later coins were struck from a die in storage bearing only the digits 180 and to which the final 8 was added by overlapping two small `o' punches to create the Tall 8 variety.

The hard-driving Reich worked his way around to half cents late in 1808, and his Classic Head made its first appearance on the denomination in 1809. By then a total of 3,416,950 Draped Bust half cents had been struck, all at the Philadelphia Mint. No proofs or presentation strikes were made. Nice~

 

[rileyboy]

Hey Joad!
Great find. There is a lot of history with that coin!
Congrats!
rileyboy

 

[billydabeeg]

Nice find and thx for the history 4H

 

[DigginThePast]

Great find joad.

Excellent history 4-H.

 

[Steve in PA]

Congrats on your your first half cent! I remember when I dug my first back in 1988. It was an 1804, also my oldest coin at that time. Your clip is a suspender buckle from the mid to late 1800s.

 

[caveman2]

great find,

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Nice one! It looks better than the 1808 I found a few weeks back for sure!