1858 FLYING EAGLE CENT

[goldencoin]

Hello, a dream came true tonight, I found the holy grail of small cents, a Flying Eagle cent! Found at the bottom of a pile of penny boxes from a favored pick up bank. In the rest of the box, I found a 1913D, which is a new date for my records. For the curious, I have been through about $8,000 in pennies, and found 6,348 wheats, and 12 Indian head pennies from 1891-1907. This beats my previous oldest CRH coin, a 1890 V nickel.

HH
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[Goldmanford]

That cent is a beauty! Congrats on a sweet find!

 

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[Numismaniac]

Nice score! It's in great shape too. Very exciting!

 

[2Cents]

That’s incredible! Congratulations.

 

[Scott (Mich)]

That is cool - congrats. After reading the title of this thread, it took me a minute to realize I was not still on the Metal Detecting forum.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Go Michigan Congrats!

 

[gold eye]

Congrats it is a great feelling to find one yours is much better then the one i found in the reject slot of my store coin machine. happy hunting Ron

 

[goldencoin]

Beautiful! How many holes left?

27 out of both books

HH
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[goldencoin]

All I can say is WOW. congrats on your dream find, in great shape too!! Since the coin is almost the thickness of 2 pennies, I am suprised the coin packing machines allowed it into the roll of coins.

This was from a hand rolled box, so thickness wasn't a problem. This is why I do hand rolls, always neat stuff that doesn't get through the coin sorter

HH
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[BuffaloBoy]

All I can say is WOW. congrats on your dream find, in great shape too!! Since the coin is almost the thickness of 2 pennies, I am suprised the coin packing machines allowed it into the roll of coins.

This was from a hand rolled box, so thickness wasn't a problem. This is why I do hand rolls, always neat stuff that doesn't get through the coin sorter

HH
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+1 for you for even being able to get hand rolled coin. There are so many coin counters in my area, there are no CWR's.

 

[jlr1076]

So, so awesome! Congrats. I've searched about $1500 in cents and have found probably about 800 wheats and 1 indian head... but a flying eagle cent... WOW! You give me hope of finding one some day.

 

[MCBR]

Wow! How cool to find a flying eagle. I did a lotta pennies as a kid and it was always my goal to find a flying eagle cent, but never did. Congrats to you!

~Matt

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

There are not enough Banner finds from the CRH forum, even though there are many finds that would qualify if they were found with detectors. I think this one should be a banner find!
Keep up the great work and HH!
-Ox