Don in SJ
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I have been out on a couple of exploratory short hunts this month but today was the first time I went to a previous known spot and was hoping to kick off my 2007/8 hunting season with at least one coin.
After hunting for about one hour and only having one iron hook and one iron tie down ring to show for my morning hunt,(besides about 10 shotgun casings) I headed back towards where my mountain bike was parked. If figures, within about 15 feet of where I started about hour and half earlier I got the sweet sound of a larger copper, one of those no doubt about signals, despite the fact I was in the middle of what appeared to be a early 20th century dump site or camp area. There was a Bordon's square milk bottle almost on the surface and remains of burnt wood in the ground near where this sweet reading was.
I did take some photos of the site and the recovery, cleaning and finished product. I attributed the variety of this 1819 Coronet Large Cent , it is a Newcomb 1 variety, there are 10 known varieties for the year 1819.
It is a common variety however, it is a 1819 over 1818 variety.
This is my 5th 1819 Large Cent and I believe most of them are in decent shape.
The site was a former sawmill in the 1700's but in the early 1800's was occupied by the Iron Industry folks, about 1835-1840 the industry collapsed in Southern New Jersey and the area was abandoned for the most part.
The area I hunted was field area in the 1800's, but has been wooded since the early 1900's.
I am sure this site will be lost within the year to a development going in, I wish it had stayed in the hands of the local hunting club, but it is now slated for development and it will be gone forever, so I am trying to preserve as much history of the place as I can before the bulldozers arrive next year.
I cleaned the copper in one inch of peroxide, used wet q-tips (14 of them) to remove the stubborn grime and then dried under a lamp and coated with a light layer of wax.
Total cleaning time, attribution and photographing about 2+ hours.
Including today's find, here is a list of the coins recovered from this place over the past couple decades, my son and hunting partner has quite a few similar coins in addition to my finds here. It has been a very nice place to go to for many years.
1744 Spanish Two Reale
1781 Spanish Half Real
1787 New Jersey Colonial
1794 Liberty Cap Large Cent
1795 Liberty Cap Large Cent
1798 Draped Bust Large Cent
1798 Draped Bust Large Cent
1800 Spanish Half Real
1806 King George III HalfPenny
1819 Coronet Type Large Cent
1820 Coronet Type Large Cent
1824 Coronet Type Large Cent
1840 Coronet Type Large Cent
1865 Two Cent Piece
1867 Shield Type Nickel
1940 Mercury Dime
1951 Washington Quarter
1700+ Unknown Colonial Copper
1796+ Draped Bust Large Cent
HH
Don in Southern South Jersey
After hunting for about one hour and only having one iron hook and one iron tie down ring to show for my morning hunt,(besides about 10 shotgun casings) I headed back towards where my mountain bike was parked. If figures, within about 15 feet of where I started about hour and half earlier I got the sweet sound of a larger copper, one of those no doubt about signals, despite the fact I was in the middle of what appeared to be a early 20th century dump site or camp area. There was a Bordon's square milk bottle almost on the surface and remains of burnt wood in the ground near where this sweet reading was.
I did take some photos of the site and the recovery, cleaning and finished product. I attributed the variety of this 1819 Coronet Large Cent , it is a Newcomb 1 variety, there are 10 known varieties for the year 1819.
It is a common variety however, it is a 1819 over 1818 variety.
This is my 5th 1819 Large Cent and I believe most of them are in decent shape.
The site was a former sawmill in the 1700's but in the early 1800's was occupied by the Iron Industry folks, about 1835-1840 the industry collapsed in Southern New Jersey and the area was abandoned for the most part.
The area I hunted was field area in the 1800's, but has been wooded since the early 1900's.
I am sure this site will be lost within the year to a development going in, I wish it had stayed in the hands of the local hunting club, but it is now slated for development and it will be gone forever, so I am trying to preserve as much history of the place as I can before the bulldozers arrive next year.
I cleaned the copper in one inch of peroxide, used wet q-tips (14 of them) to remove the stubborn grime and then dried under a lamp and coated with a light layer of wax.
Total cleaning time, attribution and photographing about 2+ hours.
Including today's find, here is a list of the coins recovered from this place over the past couple decades, my son and hunting partner has quite a few similar coins in addition to my finds here. It has been a very nice place to go to for many years.
1744 Spanish Two Reale
1781 Spanish Half Real
1787 New Jersey Colonial
1794 Liberty Cap Large Cent
1795 Liberty Cap Large Cent
1798 Draped Bust Large Cent
1798 Draped Bust Large Cent
1800 Spanish Half Real
1806 King George III HalfPenny
1819 Coronet Type Large Cent
1820 Coronet Type Large Cent
1824 Coronet Type Large Cent
1840 Coronet Type Large Cent
1865 Two Cent Piece
1867 Shield Type Nickel
1940 Mercury Dime
1951 Washington Quarter
1700+ Unknown Colonial Copper
1796+ Draped Bust Large Cent
HH
Don in Southern South Jersey
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. Keep at that site while you can. Maybe you can get in good with the construction guys too.
