Finally Found her Face !!

mojjax · May 23, 2005

I found the big piece last fall by MD'ing around my porch steps . The old wooden steps had to be replaced last week , so I got the detector out before the new ones were installed , and after finding an indian head and a wheat penny I dug a very weak signal ... the rest is history !!
Mojjax

JARMAN · May 23, 2005

Cool story and find.GRATS.

omnicognic · May 23, 2005

I wonder how it was broken? finds like these are often better than finding a whole one because this one has a story! Congrats! HH omnicognic 8)

Floater · May 23, 2005

omnicognic said:
I wonder how it was broken? finds like these are often better than finding a whole one because this one has a story! Congrats! HH omnicognic 8)

I wondered the same thing but I would bet it was Frost that did it and then either a sharp blow or even a root maybe tweaked it while it was really frozen. Interesting though.

Joe (Memphis) · May 23, 2005

That is incredible!! Congrats! I am with those that are wondering how you fracture a maleable coin though

I would really like to know how that was done.... $:-\$

Getty · May 23, 2005

that is way too cool. great persistance!!

Vrent · May 23, 2005

way to go that is a neat piece great find

junkdigger · May 23, 2005

Looks like someone sawed it into with a coping saw.They surely didn't realize the consequences of their actions of 100 years ago.I wonder if someone will discover my dumb stunts 100 years from now?

bergie · May 24, 2005

How close was the second piece found to the original?

mojjax · May 24, 2005

Bergie , the distance was about 2 feet . Junkdigger - the edge is too rough and irregular to have been cut with a saw .

hollowpointred · May 24, 2005

man that is CRAZY! i have never seen anything like that before. it looks like it just snapped. probably when it was frozen like floater said.

Emperor Findus Cladius · May 24, 2005

Very interesting find. I imagine all of us have found coins hit by a mower, but those are straight across, and that looks broken. I have never seen a "broken" coin before. Could it have come out of the mint with a huge crack then split later? Mint error maybe?

root · May 24, 2005

Maybe the gal had enough of men walking all over her and just SNAPPED!!!!!!!!

root

mojjax · May 25, 2005

Thanks for the interesting info , sounds to good to be true . I hope you're right ! I just put it in a safe place . I didn't think it would be worth much because it is broken , but now I'm definitely going to look into it more . Thanks for your research !
Mojjax