1851 Large Cent from hammered Hampstead, NH mill site.

[thecolonel]

I, like many area detectorists have gone into the woods of Hampstead, NH and surrounding areas to find relics and coins from our rich colonial past. So much so, that the areas are depleted and detecting these sites become a routine, less than exciting adventure...UNTIL, out of the ground pops out a coin that seems to shock you. And I mean inches off the beaten foot trail that cuts through, possibly, the hardest hit of all sites. The "mill".
Thats what happened to me. Feeling like I am in the footprints of guys who just dont care enough for the relics they dig, that they just discard iron to the side of their abandoned, unfilled holes, I hit a solid signal at 7". As I flipped the plug, out popped a well beaten coin. It was an 1851 large cent. How was this missed on so many visits, by not just me, but every other detectorist that had been there? Lucky me.

 

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[cjon455]

Awesome large cent, I wonder how it got so beat up, that coin can certainly tell a story, very cool!

 

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[Gaspipe]

Cool find but man is that beat to death.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the LC