found the chief key date indian head

[cosmic]

rayzhell (jr) and I decided to hit the old park again today.. We just had a nice rainfall over the last couple days, the first one in months.. We figured detecting should be good .. To us wet ground is better and it sure did pay off today... This is the same park we have found a 77 cc dime, 76 seated quarter, numerous indians and even a 1854 bowen and mcnamee token that we believe came out of Abraham Lincolns pocket.. Not to far from were Ray had found the token. he was swinging today and got a nice high signal.. Well at about 6-7 inches comes an indian head.. All he could make out was his nose.. Luckily we were only a few feet from the parks water fountain and did just a rinse .. Man, was Ray surprised when i told him that it was an 1877 indian head.. Sorry no reverse pictures yet we have it sitting in r.o. water now.. Thinking of sending it in as it sits.. Maybe let them clean it..

 

[mainer]

You sure did. A huge congrats.

 

[DigginThePast]

Outstanding find!

Huge congrats.

 

[Rogerm069]

Awesome!

 

[Swingit]

Sweeeet!!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Woohooo! What a find sir~!

1877 440.00

The total production of the Indian Head cent was 1,849,648,000 pieces. The 1909-S had the lowest mintage, only 309,000. It is not considered as scarce as the 1877 issue, (852,500), since fewer of those were kept, particularly in the higher grades.

 

[Wldbil]

Doesn't get any better then that for cents... Big Congrats

 

[steelheadwill]

Awesome Great Find!
Only 852,500 minted,
Will grade well I believe.
I was searching indian heads, and up came this page on 'How to clean your indian head penny'
http://www.ehow.com/how_6681406_clean-copper-indian-head-pennies.html
How can they advise this treatment?
I would definitely use it on zincolns....

 

[melonhead74]

A truly remarkable find!!!!!!!! Looks like it is in pretty good shape too. Congrats and HH!!

 

[dfx willy]

woo hoo !! join the club! i found mine last year. willy

 

[Skelly607]

Congrats on the super find!

 

[treasurefiend]

AWESOME!!!!!

 

[kimsdad]

Oh wow!!!

The father of all Indians!!!

WTG, Cosmic!!!

That's a find to be proud of - the one we all dream of!

I'm voting banner - it's in the "find of a lifetime" category!

 

[Jerry1NJ]

Great find!!!!

 

[Tuberale]

Tremendous find! Congratulations!

 

[Mr Tuff]

MR TUFF

 

[Tnmountains]

Awesome Great Find!
Only 852,500 minted,
Will grade well I believe.
I was searching indian heads, and up came this page on 'How to clean your indian head penny'
http://www.ehow.com/how_6681406_clean-copper-indian-head-pennies.html
How can they advise this treatment?
I would definitely use it on zincolns....

Great Indian. The perfect year! Look forward to seeing it cleaned.
I read that link above and there is no way to edit his cleaning. He is not qualified to give advice. That is crazy.
Nice find!!!!

 

[wyattrr]

congrats on a super find...may there be many more!! HH

 

[rayzhell]

I still can't believe i found that coin. Cosmic and me have hit that park for at least 5 years with several different detectors and made some great finds there. I still think my Bowan & McNamee token is my favorite just because of the strong likelyhood it came from Abraham Lincoln's pocket. But this Indian could be sold and give us enough to pick up a nice double dime the last U.S. denomination we need outside of gold coin's for our collection. or even a real nice type 1 standing liberty quarter to help fill out our 20th century type set. Now we are trying to figure out how to sell it does anyone have suggestions on were to send it to get properly cleaned and possibly graded on the cheap side? Thanks everyone for the good words and happy hunting to you all.

 

[DPBOB]

WTG another IL " BANNER FIND"