Busted!

[lenmac65]

I searched around a former home site yesterday for a couple hours. I found a bunch of shotgun shells, a 1904 Indian head penny, and an Everall Brothers button from New York. After hitting the snooze button on my phone alarm a couple times to delay the inevitable, I started swinging my way back to the trail telling myself I only had time to dig high tones. As luck would have it, I got a nice deep sounding high tone with a jumpy VDI of 29 - 30. I dug my hole and found this Draped Bust cent. These coins were minted between 1796 and 1807. This coin has seen better days, but I am still happy to have found it. I wanted to clean it up a bit, but even a gentle tooth picking was removing the delicate patina. The date is gone too, so I will just assume it is the ultra rare 1799😁. Happy hunting!

 

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I searched around a former home site yesterday for a couple hours. I found a bunch of shotgun shells, a 1904 Indian head penny, and an Everall Brothers button from New York. After hitting the snooze button on my phone alarm a couple times to delay the inevitable, I started swinging my way back to the trail telling myself I only had time to dig high tones. As luck would have it, I got a nice deep sounding high tone with a jumpy VDI of 29 - 30. I dug my hole and found this Draped Bust cent. These coins were minted between 1796 and 1807. This coin has seen better days, but I am still happy to have found it. I wanted to clean it up a bit, but even a gentle tooth picking was removing the delicate patina. The date is gone too, so I will just assume it is the ultra rare 1799😁. Happy hunting!

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Awesome find 👍🏻 Congratulations!

 

[Dirty Digger Doug]

Nice. Congrats

 

[WannaDig3687]

Congratulations! At least you can still tell what it is.

 

[TomW244]

I searched around a former home site yesterday for a couple hours. I found a bunch of shotgun shells, a 1904 Indian head penny, and an Everall Brothers button from New York. After hitting the snooze button on my phone alarm a couple times to delay the inevitable, I started swinging my way back to the trail telling myself I only had time to dig high tones. As luck would have it, I got a nice deep sounding high tone with a jumpy VDI of 29 - 30. I dug my hole and found this Draped Bust cent. These coins were minted between 1796 and 1807. This coin has seen better days, but I am still happy to have found it. I wanted to clean it up a bit, but even a gentle tooth picking was removing the delicate patina. The date is gone too, so I will just assume it is the ultra rare 1799😁. Happy hunting!

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Fantastic! Finding a coin of that age and in that condition would make my year! Well done!

 

[pepperj]

Very nice!
Congrats on saving a piece of history.

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's a great looking coin lenmac65! I wouldn't do a thing to it. Congrats!

 

[Bamasteve]

Awesome coin! Congrats!

 

[Ocean7]

Great find! Reverse in pretty good shape. I found a 1796 with visible date but on reverse you cannot see the 1/100 at all. That coin could be 226 years old!

 

[Digger RJ]

I searched around a former home site yesterday for a couple hours. I found a bunch of shotgun shells, a 1904 Indian head penny, and an Everall Brothers button from New York. After hitting the snooze button on my phone alarm a couple times to delay the inevitable, I started swinging my way back to the trail telling myself I only had time to dig high tones. As luck would have it, I got a nice deep sounding high tone with a jumpy VDI of 29 - 30. I dug my hole and found this Draped Bust cent. These coins were minted between 1796 and 1807. This coin has seen better days, but I am still happy to have found it. I wanted to clean it up a bit, but even a gentle tooth picking was removing the delicate patina. The date is gone too, so I will just assume it is the ultra rare 1799😁. Happy hunting!

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Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Yeah Buddy - nice one !

 

[islamoradamark]

nice find

 

[mindcrime1988]

Sweet find. Yes, too bad the date is gone. But it does still have some detail.

 

[lenmac65]

Great find! Reverse in pretty good shape. I found a 1796 with visible date but on reverse you cannot see the 1/100 at all. That coin could be 226 years old!

Thanks! You sure found an old one. I was real curious to see it, so I looked up your older threads. I found your 1796 Draped Copper post, but the photo had been removed. Oh well. I’ll make sure to check out your next one👍.

 

[Ocean7]

Thanks! You sure found an old one. I was real curious to see it, so I looked up your older threads. I found your 1796 Draped Copper post, but the photo had been removed. Oh well. I’ll make sure to check out your next one👍.

correct but it is listed under newer post here:

Some of my best finds, oldest finds, finds I like best when I was posting on TN

These are some of my best finds, oldest finds, and finds I like best while I was posting on TN. Unfortunately, I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer and the doctors gave me 1-3 years to live as of April. I'm not sure I'll ever hunt again but I wanted to post these as a memorial to what...

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and I'll post here. Looks like I found 5 with dates. HH!

 

[oldmxrat]

Sweet find indeed, congrats!

 

[lenmac65]

correct but it is listed under newer post here:

Some of my best finds, oldest finds, finds I like best when I was posting on TN

These are some of my best finds, oldest finds, and finds I like best while I was posting on TN. Unfortunately, I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer and the doctors gave me 1-3 years to live as of April. I'm not sure I'll ever hunt again but I wanted to post these as a memorial to what...

www.treasurenet.com

and I'll post here. Looks like I found 5 with dates. HH!

Thanks for sharing. That is a real nice coin, especially the obverse; great detail.