1848 United States large cent coin found today!!

bigchz · May 4, 2016

My oldest coin ever!! What a rush to pull this beauty out!! Doing electrolysis right now, will post updated pics.

scruggs · May 4, 2016

Congratulations on a beautiful coin!

bigchz · May 4, 2016

Thank you! It will be donated to our county historical society, due to them giving me permission to hunt a historic sight. Still a lot of land to cover, going back next week. Can't wait

Loco-Digger · May 4, 2016

Congrats on digging your oldest. :occasion14:

That one should have screamed silver.

bigchz · May 4, 2016

Yeah it was blowing me up around 99 at 4-5 inches. AT pro was screaming!! Lol

trapperart · May 4, 2016

Congrats on a nice copper

always diggin · May 4, 2016

Wow, how cool is that. Congratulations!

bigchz · May 4, 2016

Electrolysis complete and wow!! Incredible detail. Coin is awesome!!

nsdq · May 4, 2016

Pretty coin

Calabash Digger · May 4, 2016

man thats a nice coin! hope you get some more great finds.

MrBlueSkyNM · May 4, 2016

bigchz said:
Electrolysis complete and wow!! Incredible detail. Coin is awesome!!View attachment 1308500 View attachment 1308501

Wow! I'm impressed! Good job!

UnderMiner · May 4, 2016

Pretty good detail on it too!
Last one I found you could hardly even see the outline of lady liberty! :treasurechest:

basque-man · May 4, 2016

Outstanding job with the clean-up!!!! She is a real beauty!!!!! :icon_thumleft:

CASPER-2 · May 5, 2016

Erving · May 5, 2016

Beautiful LC. Never seen a copper clean up that good using electrolysis. Congrats!!! :thumbsup:

Mach1Pilot · May 5, 2016

The detail on that coin is outstanding! Way nicer than the usual slick copper found around here.

Captain Caveman · May 5, 2016

What a beautiful coin! Congratz on your oldest!

Steve in PA · May 5, 2016

That coin came out of electrolysis in amazing condition. I thought for sure there would be some pitting due to corrosion, especially on the obverse..

pepperdawg · May 5, 2016

Great coin and clean up - gotta get me an electrolysis set up built......damn nice coin - good job giving it back to the Historical Society too!!!!!!!

Scrappy · May 5, 2016

I'm not that familiar with electrolysis but am certainly now interested. I know that people use different setups though...what kind of setup do you have on your rig?

It looks fantastic!