leddel
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well upon request from a few good people i decided to post a colonial copper coin spill i found two saturdays ago . this was found at a cellar site that been detected many time by others and was my second time there .
anyway after a several hours at another spot my buddy and i decided to hit one more site before calling it quits for the day . i hinted at this place as it had alot of area and we were only there one other time and it was very close by.
it was a big center chimney colonial and we found a few buttons last time , well we split up and i was detecting basically alone for about an hour and a half. i started working an area slowly when i got a great high coin sounding target at around 6 inches i was really thinking a nice silver piece and out popped this
i was very excited to see these , but by their dark color i just knew there was morein the hole
three more coppers proved me right , wow now i was really floored .
unable to see what they were because of the thick corrosion but they were large coins and i just assumed they were matron head type large cents. later i found out i was wrong and learned that they were a King George III copper , a New Jersey copper and 4 fugio pennies . a real colonial coin spill and my largest multiple coppers in one hole .
heres what they looked like when they got home
the next job was trying to i.d. the varieties and then tackling the job of cleaning them. well after almost two weeks they are nearly there .
heres a some pictures of them individually
the 1774 King George III
the 1788 New Jersey copper
a clubed ray fugio
another fugio
third fugio
last fugio
if any one can tell the varieties as i'm a little confused on two of the fugios it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks all for the nice comments on the other forums .
Dan
anyway after a several hours at another spot my buddy and i decided to hit one more site before calling it quits for the day . i hinted at this place as it had alot of area and we were only there one other time and it was very close by.
it was a big center chimney colonial and we found a few buttons last time , well we split up and i was detecting basically alone for about an hour and a half. i started working an area slowly when i got a great high coin sounding target at around 6 inches i was really thinking a nice silver piece and out popped this
i was very excited to see these , but by their dark color i just knew there was morein the hole
three more coppers proved me right , wow now i was really floored .
unable to see what they were because of the thick corrosion but they were large coins and i just assumed they were matron head type large cents. later i found out i was wrong and learned that they were a King George III copper , a New Jersey copper and 4 fugio pennies . a real colonial coin spill and my largest multiple coppers in one hole .
heres what they looked like when they got home
the next job was trying to i.d. the varieties and then tackling the job of cleaning them. well after almost two weeks they are nearly there .
heres a some pictures of them individually
the 1774 King George III
the 1788 New Jersey copper
a clubed ray fugio
another fugio
third fugio
last fugio
if any one can tell the varieties as i'm a little confused on two of the fugios it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks all for the nice comments on the other forums .
Dan
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...and it's also getting me pretty motivated to dig! The best Fugio alone was enough to shoot them to the top the second T-net hosted pics went on.
