Continental Curency Dollar Again.....

[steelheadwill]

I don't really know where to start,
as when I found my gold Ducat, it began with a premonition, just last night,
I had mentioned to my girlfriend that some of the early Colonial coins had the slogan
'Mind Your Business' attributed to my favorite Founding Father: Benjamin Franklin.
Had a -1.36 low tide this morning, so I was in the mud at dawn, made a few nice finds and finished up at 8 am. With my work schedule, I had a couple more hours to spare, so I thought about doing some hunting elsewhere.
Without ANY hope for significant finds, I headed to an inland tidal river, & started swinging, in a few seconds, I get a shallow 36 hit, turn over some mud, & pluck out a large coin, give it a rinse, & see what I thought was a chain around the edge,
dropped my detector & shovel and head back to my truck.
A closer look reveals that it is not a chain cent.
I have a good idea what it is, as I have a full set of colonial reproductions.
What to do ? of course look for more!
Found a few more interesting items, that any other day would be posted here & now.
Today is no ordinary day.
Rubbings show good date, am storing in distilled water until I can find info on having it professionally cleaned. tips welcome! more info:
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/CC-Dollar.1.html
the top 2 pix are for comparison of course, bottom 6 are my find.
Thanks for looking, & Great Digs to You All, Herbie.
A Huge thanks to Mike, (4-H) for confirming field ID, and calming me down a bit!

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

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You have a very interesting find there Herbie!
Congratulations!

 

[Ed-NH]

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That is a cool find please keep us posted on what you find out about it. I hope that it is the real deal.

 

[DigginThePast]

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Huge congrats!!! I'm going Banner on this one!

I hope it is silver for you but it looks to me, from the pics, it looks to be pewter.

Outstanding find! Preserve that sucker!!

 

[testing123]

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Very cool find! From what I understand, the Continental Currency (also spelled "Curency" in some versions) were made of pewter - so you'd actually want it to be pewter and not silver, haha.

The thing that Im having trouble with is the 1777 date, as indicated in your rubbings. After searching through the Heritage auction archives, I could only find issues dated 1776, and none dated 1777. I'll continue poking around to see. If there's no progress made here, with your permission I can always post images on the PCGS coin forums for their members input.

 

[Deepdiger60]

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OMG !! could it be ? if so a big Congrats did you know that in 1876 copy's were made of that coin to celebrate 100 years my hunting partner has 3 of them one copper and one a cast metal i cant remember what ? each coin has copy stamped on the edge ,even if its a 1876 copy still a great find ill be watching this post i have a picture of my buddys coins i took this year .Again very rare find regardless what year Dd60

 

[steelheadwill]

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Very cool find! From what I understand, the Continental Currency (also spelled "Curency" in some versions) were made of pewter - so you'd actually want it to be pewter and not silver, haha.

The thing that Im having trouble with is the 1777 date, as indicated in your rubbings. After searching through the Heritage auction archives, I could only find issues dated 1776, and none dated 1777. I'll continue poking around to see. If there's no progress made here, with your permission I can always post images on the PCGS coin forums for their members input.

Date is 1776, photo is skewed. were made in silver,brass & pewter, this is the 'curency' version, ive read that there was also a 'currencey' version, any help is appreciated, use pix if helpful!
I wish these were better, the coin is fairly readable, will get sunlight pix tomorrow.

 

[DigginThePast]

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Very cool find! From what I understand, the Continental Currency (also spelled "Curency" in some versions) were made of pewter - so you'd actually want it to be pewter and not silver, haha.

The thing that Im having trouble with is the 1777 date, as indicated in your rubbings. After searching through the Heritage auction archives, I could only find issues dated 1776, and none dated 1777. I'll continue poking around to see. If there's no progress made here, with your permission I can always post images on the PCGS coin forums for their members input.

The Continental Currency was produced in silver, pewter and brass. The silver is the most valuable and what the OP wants his coin to be (I would also like this for them). Brass and pewter (which I believe this coin to be) are fairly equal in value. Outstanding and truly rare to find!

Date looks to be 1776 to me.

 

[Rogerm069]

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Sweet one!

 

[mainer]

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Yup looks like 1776 to me too. Outstanding find Herbie. If its the real deal then you got my banner vote. I'll be keeping a close eye on this one.

 

[l.cutler]

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I am hoping for the best, but could those white spots be the base metal showing through where the plating is corroded away?

 

[gmanlight]

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Evey time i look you have something better
than the last.
Hope its the real deal , then i will find you on the Banner.
Good Luck Mike

 

[dfx willy]

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wow ! WHAT A FIND herbie. thats a once in a lifetime coin find for sure. man pass some of that luck on. willy

 

[steelheadwill]

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I am hoping for the best, but could those white spots be the base metal showing through where the plating is corroded away?

Not sure, have found other coins with similar erosions,
seawater & contact with other metal/minerals (electrolosis) is the culprit
maybe just the pewter peeking through the surface patina.
can Anyone help with this question?

 

[Iron Patch]

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Will have to figure out how many varieties there is, because I just looked through my Breen and your "O" in Fugio in relation to the "N" in Continental seems out of place and proportion. That doesn't prove anything, other then you have to find a match with an authentic one.

 

[hogge]

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It's a beauty and I hope it is real. You just have to understand that those are the most reproduced coins.....EVER! I would suggest bringing it to "Northeast Numismatics" in Concord Ma. I forget his name but you can google it. Tell him what you found and he will be able to confirm if it is the real deal. I wouldn't bring this to any half a$$ed coin shop. Looks like the real thing to me, but you do live somewhere near the coast I gather, so novelty and tourist shops sold "millions" of repros of these. Either that or I think Micheal Hodder lives in NH. You might want to contact him for advice. GOOD LUCK Hogge

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

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What a find if it is real , even in that condition so many have turned out to be "to good to be true ", reproductions I am amazed at the lost mud finds up there in NH Nice , exciting dig , one to watch .. Good Luck

 

[dwayne sueno]

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Will have to figure out how many varieties there is, because I just looked through my Breen and your "O" in Fugio in relation to the "N" in Continental seems out of place and proportion. That doesn't prove anything, other then you have to find a match with an authentic one.

IP, how about a Newman 1-C?

http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/continental_dollars/1776_continental_dollar_n1_C.htm

if this turns out to be real then it is one of the coolest things i've ever seen dug. fingers crossed.

 

[hogge]

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Will have to figure out how many varieties there is, because I just looked through my Breen and your "O" in Fugio in relation to the "N" in Continental seems out of place and proportion. That doesn't prove anything, other then you have to find a match with an authentic one.

IP, how about a Newman 1-C?

http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/continental_dollars/1776_continental_dollar_n1_C.htm

if this turns out to be real then it is one of the coolest things i've ever seen dug. fingers crossed.

1-C is not a match. His "O" is lined up with the start of the "N". The 1-C is offset to the right side of the "N".

 

[dwayne sueno]

Re: Continental Currency Dollar ....

Will have to figure out how many varieties there is, because I just looked through my Breen and your "O" in Fugio in relation to the "N" in Continental seems out of place and proportion. That doesn't prove anything, other then you have to find a match with an authentic one.

IP, how about a Newman 1-C?

http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/continental_dollars/1776_continental_dollar_n1_C.htm

if this turns out to be real then it is one of the coolest things i've ever seen dug. fingers crossed.

1-C is not a match. His "O" is lined up with the start of the "N". The 1-C is offset to the right side of the "N".

ah, right you are, hogge.