1825 Half Cent

[Mr. Magoo]

Back to a few of my favorite sites and this time brought my wife along. She took pictures and I detected. First target 1825 half cent in great condition! Only 63,000 made after a halt in production for 14 years. All are rare, but this one is special to me because I can actually read something off this coin! Last half cent was 1810 from smae general area but couldn't get much detail. Also found a D- brass buckle 1800's time frame to add to my growing buckle collection. All in all not bad for about thirty minutes of hunting!

 

[kevin11]

Cool digs That half cent looks good.

 

[The Buzzard King]

NICE find! Congrats!

 

[oldschool]

the half cent is soooo neat!!

 

[RiverRat3]

Nice Find for just 30 minutes of detecting. I hunted for about an hour today and had no luck.

 

[Goldiver]

Nice work finding that Half Cent!! Congratulations!

Steve

 

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[Deno]

Congrats on the half cent. I have never dug one and have only seen around 3 that i can think of ever
come up.

 

[John987]

Very nice coin!!
Congrats!

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Congrats on your find! They are definitely hard to come by. I only dug one, an 1809, and it was almost a year ago.

Happy Hunting!
Neil

 

[coltdavis]

Congrats on an awesome find! keep it up! best of luck and HH

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Very nice coin Chris! Another nice rare find of yours! Till our next hunt partner..mike

 

[Hill Billy]

Nice Save.

 

[JimBeHuntin']

Nice coin find and in decent condition as well ... good job!

 

[allen]

congrats on that awesome half cent !!!!

 

[DCMatt]

Sweet half cent. Nice to see one you can read for a change...

We had a recent discussion as part of a large cent posting in Best Finds. My question was "Why so few half cents found compaired to Large cents?" Everyone agreed that MANY more large cents are found, but nobody had a good answer why. Someone suggested the half cents had so little value that they were used for other things like washers. If they had so little value, I'd think there would be more in the ground instead of less. It's a mystery...

DCMatt

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very nice job on the 1825 half cent! I bet you were shocked when that came out of the ground!!!

 

[PA]

hi mr. maggoo,

i love the half penny. great find. go get more now.

henry

 

[dfxmatt]

that coin wreaks of oldnessnessness

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Nice work magoo,great old coin