brianc053
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- Sussex County, DE
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- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hi everyone. April and 2021 in general have been remarkably good to me, and in a previous post I commented on having a lot of "first finds" recently (KG2, Barber Half, a Spanish Real back in January).
The list of firsts has grown: today I found an 1857 Flying Eagle Cent, a coin I never expected to find! It's in rough shape, but I've included pictures at a mid-cleaning stage (yes, I cleaned it with Andre's Pencils only) and at that point the final digit of the year, "7", was clear (I realize that it looks like 1117 in the picture - I was only focused on trying to clean the last digit, for obvious reasons).
The final result isn't great; my son rightly pointed out that it looked better before I started cleaning it (when the dirt was in the shape of the eagle), but I couldn't resist trying to find the date - at the cost maybe of the appearance of the coin. Oh well, as I told him: I didn't ruin the coin, nature ruined the coin. I did what I could to save it.
I found the Flying Eagle and other coins at a house in town that I've wanted to detect for a long time. A friend who knows the owner and who detects called me midday to ask if I wanted to join him and I jumped at the chance - boy am I glad I did!
The first hole had three silvers: a 1953 Washington Quarter and two Mercs (1928 and 1929, both Philly mint). I included the picture of two coins on the plug because I thought I was done when I pulled those out, but being a good detectorist I checked the hole before moving on and discovered that I'd missed the second Merc.
Not far from the silver was a 1911 Liberty "V" Nickel, in reasonably good shape (since the only other V Nickel I've found was completely toasted). Once again I cleaned this coin and once again my son pointed out that the back was WAYYYY better before I cleaned it. Oh well - still got a date off of it!
The final item I'll mention is the broach with the "diamonds" pictured below. I'm pretty confident it's costume jewelry, because: the metal is not sterling/925 (it's plated at best; the plating is coming off the screw back), the stones are all surprisingly uniform, and I swear that with a jeweler's loop I see scratches on the stones (and even a chip in one). But it was fun to find for a moment...and I'll still get it checked out just in case.
My buddy found a coin spill (but all clad, including a 1965 quarter...off by one year!) and a heavy silver necklace charm or maybe an earring...he's cleaning it and hopefully will see 925 or "sterling" on it.
Thanks for looking, and I hope everyone else had a great weekend!
- Brian
The list of firsts has grown: today I found an 1857 Flying Eagle Cent, a coin I never expected to find! It's in rough shape, but I've included pictures at a mid-cleaning stage (yes, I cleaned it with Andre's Pencils only) and at that point the final digit of the year, "7", was clear (I realize that it looks like 1117 in the picture - I was only focused on trying to clean the last digit, for obvious reasons).
The final result isn't great; my son rightly pointed out that it looked better before I started cleaning it (when the dirt was in the shape of the eagle), but I couldn't resist trying to find the date - at the cost maybe of the appearance of the coin. Oh well, as I told him: I didn't ruin the coin, nature ruined the coin. I did what I could to save it.
I found the Flying Eagle and other coins at a house in town that I've wanted to detect for a long time. A friend who knows the owner and who detects called me midday to ask if I wanted to join him and I jumped at the chance - boy am I glad I did!
The first hole had three silvers: a 1953 Washington Quarter and two Mercs (1928 and 1929, both Philly mint). I included the picture of two coins on the plug because I thought I was done when I pulled those out, but being a good detectorist I checked the hole before moving on and discovered that I'd missed the second Merc.
Not far from the silver was a 1911 Liberty "V" Nickel, in reasonably good shape (since the only other V Nickel I've found was completely toasted). Once again I cleaned this coin and once again my son pointed out that the back was WAYYYY better before I cleaned it. Oh well - still got a date off of it!
The final item I'll mention is the broach with the "diamonds" pictured below. I'm pretty confident it's costume jewelry, because: the metal is not sterling/925 (it's plated at best; the plating is coming off the screw back), the stones are all surprisingly uniform, and I swear that with a jeweler's loop I see scratches on the stones (and even a chip in one). But it was fun to find for a moment...and I'll still get it checked out just in case.
My buddy found a coin spill (but all clad, including a 1965 quarter...off by one year!) and a heavy silver necklace charm or maybe an earring...he's cleaning it and hopefully will see 925 or "sterling" on it.
Thanks for looking, and I hope everyone else had a great weekend!
- Brian
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