BEAUTIFUL 1796 DRAPED BUST LARGE CENT! AND THIS IS A GOOD ONE TOO.....

[1LWiL15]

It started out like any other day metal detecting. I was out detecting a site that I have pounded many times in the past, a 1789 two-story colonial house. Every time I go back here, I always find something I missed. I normally dig all positive signals, but today it was just repeatable high tones. And there it was! My first high tone of the day. I dug it with great anticipation, hoping for a deep coin. Sure enough, the target was deep, a square nail at 10". I did this for hours, trying hard to cut through the half-frozen ground. But then, there it was; the tone I was looking for, a solid 35-36 on my Equinox. I knew this type of signal well, I have dug many coins that produce this type of signal at depth. Sure enough, a big fat large cent came up from its resting place 11" down! This in itself was very exciting, but after I rubbed it off I saw the date: 1798!! I had NEVER dug a 1700s U.S. coin before, so this coin was a major MAJOR bucket lister! After all of that work, for a beautiful coin, it couldn't get any better than that, right? WRONG!! After doing a little research on the variety, I found it to be the 1798 Reverse of 1796 variety, which is very rare and sought after by collectors! In the Red Book, this coin goes for about $250 in AG-3 and over $10,000 in EF-40, and this coin condition wise is DEFINETLY in almost mint state! (Other than the fact that it has been dug out of the ground, lol). Of course, I will never sell this find because of its value to me because I saved it, and it will always be one of my favorite treasures that i have found, a real diamond in the rough!

Link to the actual variety, notice the reverse strike on both coins.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/large-cent...die-state-v-this-variety-combin/a/390-19374.s

 

[1LWiL15]

Congrats on a RARE and FANTASTIC find !

Thanks man!!!

 

[cannonball]

Taking a closer look at your images, I would attribute your coin as Sheldon-145. A diagnostic feature of this variety is that the fraction bar in 1/100 is connected to the right ribbon of the wreath. Sheldon-145 rates R-3, or slightly scarce, and it falls into the Style 1 hair group, as I mentioned earlier. You may enjoy looking at some photos of 1798 cents on this guy's website for comparison.

https://largecents.net/collection/1798drbust.html

Nice ID!

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

It started out like any other day metal detecting. I was out detecting a site that I have pounded many times in the past, a 1789 two-story colonial house. Every time I go back here, I always find something I missed. I normally dig all positive signals, but today it was just repeatable high tones. And there it was! My first high tone of the day. I dug it with great anticipation, hoping for a deep coin. Sure enough, the target was deep, a square nail at 10". I did this for hours, trying hard to cut through the half-frozen ground. But then, there it was; the tone I was looking for, a solid 35-36 on my Equinox. I knew this type of signal well, I have dug many coins that produce this type of signal at depth. Sure enough, a big fat large cent came up from its resting place 11" down! This in itself was very exciting, but after I rubbed it off I saw the date: 1798!! I had NEVER dug a 1700s U.S. coin before, so this coin was a major MAJOR bucket lister! After all of that work, for a beautiful coin, it couldn't get any better than that, right? WRONG!! After doing a little research on the variety, I found it to be the 1798 Reverse of 1796 variety, which is very rare and sought after by collectors! In the Red Book, this coin goes for about $250 in AG-3 and over $10,000 in EF-40, and this coin condition wise is DEFINETLY in almost mint state! (Other than the fact that it has been dug out of the ground, lol). Of course, I will never sell this find because of its value to me because I saved it, and it will always be one of my favorite treasures that i have found, a real diamond in the rough!

Link to the actual variety, notice the reverse strike on both coins.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/large-cent...die-state-v-this-variety-combin/a/390-19374.s

big time gratz on an epic find, and your first 1700s too. Still looking for my first. well done!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Beautiful piece of early U.S. history!! Something we'll never find on the left coast....we have to suffer with gold coins for our lack of early U.S. coinage

 

[1LWiL15]

Nice ID!

Thank you for the info..

 

[1LWiL15]

big time gratz on an epic find, and your first 1700s too. Still looking for my first. well done!

Good luck to you. The 1700s draped busts don't come up often, you have a better chance (in my opinion) of finding a liberty cap. I haven't found a liberty cap personally, but I have seen my friends pull more of them than the 1700s DBs. How long have you been detecting?

 

[1LWiL15]

Beautiful piece of early U.S. history!! Something we'll never find on the left coast....we have to suffer with gold coins for our lack of early U.S. coinage

Well, you will just have to come over sometime! If you ever do, the DB largies aren't too hard, but the earliest ones are hard.

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Good luck to you. The 1700s draped busts don't come up often, you have a better chance (in my opinion) of finding a liberty cap. I haven't found a liberty cap personally, but I have seen my friends pull more of them than the 1700s DBs. How long have you been detecting?

3 years, looking forward to seeing what goodies pop up in 2022! HH