Draped Bust Copper Found In Junk Jar

[Ed-NH]

Hi all,
It's been a long time since I've been on the forum. Not much detecting lately, been busy. Anyway this week I was going through some of my 'junk coppers' that I put into a little glass container. While inspecting under the loop light I saw a draped bust on one of the coppers. After a bit of cleaning out popped a date of 1798 and a pretty nice coin. I'm not sure why I put this one in the junk jar... I am very pleased with this one as I was not expecting anything like this in my junk jar. I still remember where I found it in that corn field
Sorry about the pic out of focus I took it after I put the coin in a holder

 

[Sniffy]

Did you dig this Large Cent?

 

[pepperj]

Nice refind

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Not having an area of "junk coppers" lying around this cold Denver apartment, I can't fully feel for you. I savor that penny though. I would have always taken care of it. Not just tossing it aside like some pull-tab. We have pull-tabs. It would fit in my palm more securely.
You did well.
Carl

 

[vayank54]

Nice coin. Almost like digging it again wasn't it.

 

[Deno]

I have found some goodies in the junk that i throw in a box.
But not anything near that level.

That is outstanding. Congratulations.

Banner.

 

[DigginThePast]

Wow. A great old copper. Congrats on your find (twice). I wonder if you could determine which variety it is.

 

[Kanyontreasures]

wow great copper

 

[SkyPirate]

Did you dig this Large Cent?

"I still remember where I found it in that corn field"

 

[p2c]

Awesome find and re-find
Let me get this straight... where you live, common date, newer, or poor condition large cents just automatically go into the junk copper jar? Here in Illinois, any LC found would automatically be a prized find.

 

[Iron Patch]

I wish I had a junk jar like that to keep me busy over the Winter.

 

[wodens]

Ok first of all, nice find there Ed. Secondly, some of you guys give him a break I was there in the field when he dug this coin and I have to tell you it just looked like a blank disc. I can understand for you guys that live out where large cents are rare that a blank copper disc might be center stage in your collection immediately. But where we live we find them almost ever outing. I have been to the UK and I have to tell you an average hunter will find maybe 100+ such disc's a year and most will go to the scrap Pile and not a place where they will be looked at later. So once again nice find and good for you to have kept that coin somewhere to look at again

HH
Alan

 

[Iron Patch]

Ok first of all, nice find there Ed. Secondly, some of you guys give him a break I was there in the field when he dug this coin and I have to tell you it just looked like a blank disc. I can understand for you guys that live out where large cents are rare that a blank copper disc might be center stage in your collection immediately. But where we live we find them almost ever outing. I have been to the UK and I have to tell you an average hunter will find maybe 100+ such disc's a year and most will go to the scrap Pile and not a place where they will be looked at later. So once again nice find and good for you to have kept that coin somewhere to look at again

HH
Alan

So you both messed up and missed a good coin.

 

[BomberJohn]

Awesome junk box find Ed. Reminds me, I need o go through mine.

HH
John

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

That was a pleasant surprise on your part when you revisited your junkjar. I have a similar junkbox full of relics that I plan on revisiting in my old age when the CKK machine grinds to a halt. This will probably happen 30 years or so in the future and the floor joists are sagging from the weight of coppers and relics.
Chris

 

[Dman]

Nice find. I think I will recheck my junk jar.
Dman

 

[Don in SJ]

Ed, that is one reason why all coppers should be looked at carefully and cleaned, I find a lot of mine that look like nothing until they are cleaned and sometimes very pleasantly surprised at the results. Also, same goes for buttons, to not clean a lot of the late 1700s and early 1800s buttons is to deny yourself of knowing the beauty lying underneath the crud, be surprised how many have beautiful designs under that crud. (Not to mention those plain faced flat buttons that could be a historic/valuable Andrew Jackson campaign button backmark)

The Brits are making a mistake in not taking some of their coppers more seriously, a lot of the coppers they consider junk, actually have more value than ones they prize. You never see our Brit friends posting KGIII coppers and yet they have the same counterfeits we do and some are very valuable, since collecting them is desired, thus the supply and demand is alive and well. Also, by posting their more "modern" finds like KGII and KGIII Halfpence, they can help in the research that is going on in the field of counterfeiting those halfpence in the mid to late 1700s.

Also, one of your fellow NH hunters I know sent me some of his junk coins I won in a contest he found and after careful cleaning, I could ID most of them and one of them was a Wellington token.....

We spend all the time researching, hunting, the least we can do is followup on the hunt and do our best to ID our finds, a major part of the hobby.

IMHO

Don

 

[Iron Patch]

Ed, that is one reason why all coppers should be looked at carefully and cleaned, I find a lot of mine that look like nothing until they are cleaned and sometimes very pleasantly surprised at the results. Also, same goes for buttons, to not clean a lot of the late 1700s and early 1800s buttons is to deny yourself of knowing the beauty lying underneath the crud, be surprised how many have beautiful designs under that crud. (Not to mention those plain faced flat buttons that could be a historic/valuable Andrew Jackson campaign button backmark)

The Brits are making a mistake in not taking some of their coppers more seriously, a lot of the coppers they consider junk, actually have more value than ones they prize. You never see our Brit friends posting KGIII coppers and yet they have the same counterfeits we do and some are very valuable, since collecting them is desired, thus the supply and demand is alive and well. Also, by posting their more "modern" finds like KGII and KGIII Halfpence, they can help in the research that is going on in the field of counterfeiting those halfpence in the mid to late 1700s.

Also, one of your fellow NH hunters I know sent me some of his junk coins I won in a contest he found and after careful cleaning, I could ID most of them and one of them was a Wellington token.....

We spend all the time researching, hunting, the least we can do is followup on the hunt and do our best to ID our finds, a major part of the hobby.

IMHO

Don

Trust me, I could make a few brits very sick to their stomach.

 

[BuckleBoy]

We spend all the time researching, hunting, the least we can do is followup on the hunt and do our best to ID our finds, a major part of the hobby.

IMHO

Don

Absolutely correct.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Ed, that is one reason why all coppers should be looked at carefully and cleaned, I find a lot of mine that look like nothing until they are cleaned and sometimes very pleasantly surprised at the results. Also, same goes for buttons, to not clean a lot of the late 1700s and early 1800s buttons is to deny yourself of knowing the beauty lying underneath the crud, be surprised how many have beautiful designs under that crud. (Not to mention those plain faced flat buttons that could be a historic/valuable Andrew Jackson campaign button backmark)

The Brits are making a mistake in not taking some of their coppers more seriously, a lot of the coppers they consider junk, actually have more value than ones they prize. You never see our Brit friends posting KGIII coppers and yet they have the same counterfeits we do and some are very valuable, since collecting them is desired, thus the supply and demand is alive and well. Also, by posting their more "modern" finds like KGII and KGIII Halfpence, they can help in the research that is going on in the field of counterfeiting those halfpence in the mid to late 1700s.

Also, one of your fellow NH hunters I know sent me some of his junk coins I won in a contest he found and after careful cleaning, I could ID most of them and one of them was a Wellington token.....

We spend all the time researching, hunting, the least we can do is followup on the hunt and do our best to ID our finds, a major part of the hobby.

IMHO

Don

Trust me, I could make a few brits very sick to their stomach.

What you mean you don't already