Big copper! FINALLY!

[Nick A]

It's taken many years for one of these to turn up under my coil. A quick spin at the park after work and I got this sweet 1820! My first large cent and new "oldest coin" It was a few feet away from another detectorist's plug and in ground I've been over a million times before. You just never know. The only other thing of note were four wheats and a little clad.

 

[ModernMiner]

A BIG CONGRATS!!!
I'm still looking for one myself.
-MM-

 

[Kyle PA]

Congrats on your first large copper. It is a great feeling, isn't it?

Kyle

 

[dfx willy]

woohoo!!! your first copper. big congrats. willy

 

[seger98]

Awesome find, never found one of those yet! Congratulations..

 

[creeper71]

I'm pretty sure that is a 1820 over 1819 anyone else see it?

 

[The Patriot]

WTG...nice to get them old coppers especially being a first

 

[DetectoDude]

Congrats! Nothing like finding a large copper!!!! Go back if there is one more will surface! WTG!

 

[johnnyi]

Way to go Nick! There's nothing like big coppers. I like them more than siver. Creeper's right that there's something going on in that date. It looks like an upright "1" beneath the "2" and a pretty strong line cutting through the zero (yeoman doesn't show that strong line in the zero on his overdate for some reason?).

 

[Kirk PA]

The sight of a green copper is much better than a silver coin. Great dig!

Kirk

 

[bergie]

Fantastic find, congrats on the old copper. The first one is a real thrill. Sounds like this was a "chance" find as it probably wasn't a park way back when - so it must have been a shock to find. I have had two "chance find" coppers out of the blue. One was directly under a horse racing track from the early 1900s and the other was at a kids camp from the 1960s through present (I hate when people talk about their own finds on someone else's string, and now I'm guilty of it, but I thought it applied...so maybe it's not so bad to do...)

 

[terpfan]

Way to go on your first big copper! I still remember finding my first one just like it was yesterday. I remember wondering how such a large coin could be lost--I still wonder about that. Creeper and Johnnyi are right, there is something odd about that strike.

 

[Sniffy]

GOOD FOR YOU MAN!

 

[jgas]

Right, it looks like 20 over 19 to me too..Congrats on the nice LC...You will never forget that first one. jgas

 

[Nick A]

Thanks guys. Not sure about the 19 over 20, you can see more detail in the pic then when you hold it in your hand. It's pretty rough shape, I know, I'm just happy it has a date on it! I did find one other copper ages ago that is super intriguing, but there's not enough detail to identify it at all.

 

[pepperj]

Congrat's on the big copper, and your oldest so far .

 

[WhiteHunter]

well done, just shows that you never find every thing

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Congrats on the keeper and first

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

You will always remember the first one. Congrats.
Chris

 

[daytondigger]

Congratulations Nick, we're all suddenly digging coppers. Tried today and got yet another civil war token from the same small site.