1880 IHP, finally an older coin on this homesite

Wallhangers · Aug 31, 2008

I have hit this yard along a river quite a few times. I keep gridding at different angles with success. Have been only finding wheats and nickels from the 1930's and up and I knew there had to be an older one here somewhere. Not to mention it is one of the only spots I can dig in decent soft ground. This is the same site where I found the "Good for one loaf" token earlier this year. Also found a couple more 40's wheats and wish I could have found this old Union Leader tobacco tin in better shape. I have been cleaning the copper coins the same way Prolab does it and I like the Patina staying put.

nightwolf · Aug 31, 2008

Sweet looking indian head you turned up, nice work! :thumbsup:

Detectingfreak · Aug 31, 2008

nice job on the 1880 indian head penny! Congrats! :thumbsup:

Captn SE · Aug 31, 2008

Nice Injun you found there, Mark!!

I lightened your photo a little to bring out more detail. Looks great! Where there's one, there's bound to be more!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

John Deere Digger · Aug 31, 2008

Nice Indian, wish the ones I find look that good.
JDD

crazyjarhead · Aug 31, 2008

That is a sweet looking injun lost in it's early years. Cleaned up very nice. Congrats on your first :coffee2:

Wallhangers · Aug 31, 2008

Captn_SE said:
Nice Injun you found there, Mark!!

I lightened your photo a little to bring out more detail. Looks great! Where there's one, there's bound to be more!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

Thanks for lightening that up for me Captn!

crazyjarhead said:
That is a sweet looking injun lost in it's early years. Cleaned up very nice. Congrats on your first

This was my first oldie on this site, I have one IHP older and a few more recents, thanks.

plehbah said:
That is indeed a choice example. I think I have found quite a few 1880s as far as the percentage, but they were all very lousy with old age.

An old penny in that condition, and with that patina, is a sweet find.

Thanks, some of you guys have found a bunch of these, I enjoy each one I find, this one being the fourth I have dug.
Thanks everyone!