Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny: Update added cleaned pics

[BobinSouthVA]

finally got out with a neighbor to a site of his. We had been planning to get together for a year or so and today finally worked out. Had intended to go to one of my sites but those plans fell through and we went to one of his sites.

Hunted for a few hours and found the back of a button, a wheatie and some other odds and ends. It was about time to go and while swinging on the way back to the truck dug this beautiful but badly worn 1773 Virginia Halfpenny and a nice tombac with some gold gilding.

Ecstatic about this coin, the only other large copper I have found is a badly worn large cent.

any suggestions for cleaning this to bring out more detail?

Thanks for looking and HH.

EDIT: added some more pictures after a short peroxide bath. Happy with the results, it brought out more detail on the Virginia State Seal. Can also see more of George's hair and can make out the S in Georgivs

 

[johnnyblaze]

Re: Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny

Nice find

I would like to see a picture of it cleaned better


Blaze

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Re: Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny

Nice find

I would like to see a picture of it cleaned better


Blaze

Thanks.

Me too

any ideas?. thinking about a peroxide bath but have only used that for indians and lincolns.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Re: Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny

Yes that will be good

Then i brush the details out lightly with 0000 steel wool.

Blaze

 

[goldseeker4000]

Re: Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny

How do you get a 1773 virginia half penny out of that when you cannot tell at all what it is? You can't see a date! so how do you know it is a 1773 Half penny?

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Re: Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny

How do you get a 1773 virginia half penny out of that when you cannot tell at all what it is? You can't see a date! so how do you know it is a 1773 Half penny?

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,393736.0.html

Lots of other details on it.

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Re: Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny

Yes that will be good

Then i brush the details out lightly with 0000 steel wool.

Blaze

Thanks

great avatar btw. big Doors fan. In fact found my self singing "Spanish Caravan" the other day when I found some cut spanish silver

 

[BobinSouthVA]

added some cleaned pictures, but I think thats as far as I am going to take it. I think I'll lose detail if I go any further.

however it did bring out the state seal nicely.

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Hey Bob , The Virginia halfpenny is one of my favorites I have found two over the years , always a welcome addition 8) nice dig !! dawg

 

[ewcoinhunter]

Nice find, are you going to try and clean up anymore?

 

[umrgolf]

Nice one Bob anytime you pull one from a fertilized field with detail its a good one

 

[Chocadog]

Wonderful find, well done!

 

[steelheadwill]

Great Find and detective Work! Congrats

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Hey Bob , The Virginia halfpenny is one of my favorites I have found two over the years , always a welcome addition 8) nice dig !! dawg

Thanks Dawg

Nice find, are you going to try and clean up anymore?

Thanks, I don't think I'm going to clean it any further. I think I'll just lose more detail.

Nice one Bob anytime you pull one from a fertilized field with detail its a good one

Thanks Jeff. My neighbor is being deployed for a year so he has graciously given me the go ahead to his this property again. hopefully there are some more goodies hiding under the corn and soybean stalks.

Wonderful find, well done!

Thanks Chocadog.

Great Find and detective Work! Congrats

Thanks Steelhead will but alot of the credit goes to the WII people?

 

[Piece_Of_Eight]

Sweet

 

[johnnyblaze]

Re: Great Day. 1773 Virginia Half Penny

Yes that will be good

Then i brush the details out lightly with 0000 steel wool.

Blaze

Thanks

great avatar btw. big Doors fan. In fact found my self singing "Spanish Caravan" the other day when I found some cut spanish silver

Another bygone era...

The Doors were ahead of there time.


Blaze

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Sweet

Thanks Piece_Of_Eight

 

[spitfire55]