Had a good day with Soupie! Got a first today! Updated with scans.

[mattw]

Got out to the chilly fields with Soupie today, had a pretty good day. Got a rather good IH, 1887 and got a few odd chunks of copper. I was really hoping for something silver and about that time got a screaming 00 28 on the SE, got my blood pumping and was really hoping for something old and seated. At about 2 inches I got a really toasted large cent, no face left just a little wreath and part of the word STATES and part of AMERICA. I figured, what the heck when I got home and hit it with boiling peroxide, did not have much to lose. Much to my surprise, I got 3 digits of a date under bright side lighting... I had found my oldest coin to date!!! I can make out 179.

I am not sure if I would have traded that one for a silver or not. I will try to get a pic of it, but there is not much left of the old girl. I wish I could make out the head, but it is really toasted.

I gotta take Scott more often, he must be my lucky rabbits foot.

Matt

I am not sure it is a LC. In the scans, with it dry the letters RICA show up on the other side it appears to have a TW in the center. The diameter is 1.090", with the wear it is not far from the LC 1.13"

Lets hear what you think!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: Had a good day with Soupie! Got a first today!

So you were out with my buddy Scott.

Nice finds

 

[teleman 2525]

Re: Had a good day with Soupie! Got a first today!

love those old large cents

 

[mattw]

Re: Had a good day with Soupie! Got a first today! Update!

Got out to the chilly fields with Soupie today, had a pretty good day. Got a rather good IH, 1887 and got a few odd chunks of copper. I was really hoping for something silver and about that time got a screaming 00 28 on the SE, got my blood pumping and was really hoping for something old and seated. At about 2 inches I got a really toasted large cent, no face left just a little wreath and part of the word STATES and part of AMERICA. I figured, what the heck when I got home and hit it with boiling peroxide, did not have much to lose. Much to my surprise, I got 3 digits of a date under bright side lighting... I had found my oldest coin to date!!! I can make out 179.

I am not sure if I would have traded that one for a silver or not. I will try to get a pic of it, but there is not much left of the old girl. I wish I could make out the head, but it is really toasted.

I gotta take Scott more often, he must be my lucky rabbits foot.

Looks like a 1793-1795. It has something on the edge, some kind of lettering, can't make it out and it has the dimple's or what every they are called around the outer diameter of the faces of the coin.

Matt

Matt

 

[soupie]

Re: Had a good day with Soupie! Got a first today!

Congrats Matt,what a great LC to find for your first.Had a great time out in the field with ya ,Just curious what you will dig up next...HH Scott

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

Re: Had a good day with Soupie! Got a first today!

congrats man! hopefully some pics soon

 

[mattw]

So, I am not sure how to edit the original and add photos. So, here they are.

Matt

 

[mattw]

One more scan, in negative. It shows what appears to be a TW in the center.

Matt

 

[soupie]

Matt,Sure its and 1800's era LC from the direction of the LIBERTY...still looking...Scott

 

[mattw]

I see where the TY could be the LIBERTY, have been trying to figure it out and just could not get the right orientation.

Later Bud.

 

[soupie]

Matt here is an 1808 for comparison,regardless of what year it turns out to be still a great find...Scott

 

[mattw]

I am really tickled that I actually found one, believe me!

Matt