FIRST HALF CENT

[collector01]

My wife let me get out for a couple hours today so I hit my moms yard again, I have found 7 buttons in her yard in the last couple months 2 pewter and 5 flat buttons but no coins. My mother said it had been hunted alto by the previous owner so I always work with no discrimination and dig everything but iron. Today I hunted an hour and a half with nothing but some bottle caps when I decided to hunt the driveway, I have never hunted a drive because there always so packed down and fool of rocks but my first signal was a penny reading and read at only a inch but I dug anyway and when it came out I thought it was a quarter until i Saw liberty across the top, so I washed it off under the spicket and could read the date 1808 it was my first half cent and my oldest coin yet. My mothers going to till her yard in the spring so I should get some more good stuff out of there, thanks for reading and happy hunting!

 

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[Felinepeachy]

WTG!!!!!! That's a nice coin. Congratulations...

 

[Detectingfreak]

Thats awesome dude! I think it might be a large cent though. Do you have a picture of the back to verify that it is a half cent? Otherwise I think its a large cent. But I could be wrong! Otherwise very awesome find dude!

 

[Don in SJ]

Congrats on your first Half Cent and wish you luck in future hunts in the yard area.

Don

 

[collector01]

Its a half cent 1808 was the last year of the draped bust type for half cents and large cent draped bust ended in 1807 and the back does say 1 over 200 but is hard to see. Its the first I have found but I have several I have bought.

 

[civilman1]

I caught my biggest Bass at Allen's Pond off of Allen's Rd. there Collector....Johnson's,Leonard's aren't too shabby either.Old Md. Boy from way back Haven't had the opportunity to dig a Half Cent yet,had to have been a great feeling.....Sweet Dig

 

[xlt nh]

SWEEEEEEEEET!!!! Those are a tough find...Congrats!!

HH, Hank 8)

 

[MichiganRob]

Very Nice coin
I edited it for you

HH
MichiganRob

 

[Ray in CA]

That is an awesome find! Congrats!

Ray

 

[weasel606]

awesome finds congrats

 

[Golden1]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[IAsoldier]

Very nice HH

 

[Colonial Zoyboy]

Yup, that is what I'm after, buddy!

Now, get out there and dig us another one, but a 1794 Liberty Cap this time.

Kyle

 

[MrBling]

Incredible find. I wish I could find 200 year old coins an inch down where I live!

 

[Bartman]

Great find. Looks like the Eastern shore still holds some treasure!

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Incredible find. I wish I could find 200 year old coins an inch down where I live!

Great find, Collector!

Congrats! You are in a great area for colonials, and even some cobbs!

And MrBling, I bet you can find some 400 year old coins in your region.

 

[Evolution]

Beautiful half cent. Makes me all tingly inside. I've only found one half cent myself....an 1809 classic head version.

 

[wyattrr]

Great Coin Score...Congrats

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great way to get some Great finds by thinking outside of the box.


That gravel driveway wasn't there back in the early 1800s.


Nice work, and some Serious congratulations...



-Buckleboy

 

[tpmrcp]

Beautiful find