brianc053
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Hi everyone. Today I decided to knock on a door I’d driven by in the past to ask for permission, and I’m glad I did! The home was built in 1830 and the owners were very nice. They told me that others had detected the property before (about 3 acres with the home set back from an old road that shows prominently on my area’s 1853 map), but I was free to give it a try.
I’ll skip to the last - and best - find of the day: my first New Jersey Copper coin (1786-1788 or so)!!! I’m so excited, because as a resident of New Jersey who takes this hobby pretty seriously I felt like I would be incomplete until I found one of my state’s coppers. No longer incomplete!
My Jersey Copper is somewhat rough but the shield is still partly intact and on the obverse I can see the horse, but no date.
However I think there is enough detail to hopefully figure out which variety of the Jersey Coppers this one is.
I could use the help of the experts out there - do you see enough to figure out which variety it is? Here’s what I see:
- on the obverse the horse’s ears line up with the “C”, which is not the case on many Jersey Coppers
- also on the obverse I think the plow might be curved, but I can’t be sure.
- on the reverse the bottom of the horizontal lines of the shield line up with the “N” in UNUM; many of the Jersey Copper examples I see don’t line up this way.
Please share your thoughts on what these details might mean.
As for the other finds, here’s what I kept:
- (first row) Crotal bell piece; button with shank that says “plated” and has stars; a cool Union Pacific Lucky Piece from 1934; a BAYER bottle top
- (second row) a buckle that might be a knee or shoe buckle?; a pump organ reed
- (third row) two modern dimes, a zinc penny and two wheat pennies (1920 and an unknown date)
Thanks for checking this out!
- Brian
I’ll skip to the last - and best - find of the day: my first New Jersey Copper coin (1786-1788 or so)!!! I’m so excited, because as a resident of New Jersey who takes this hobby pretty seriously I felt like I would be incomplete until I found one of my state’s coppers. No longer incomplete!
My Jersey Copper is somewhat rough but the shield is still partly intact and on the obverse I can see the horse, but no date.
However I think there is enough detail to hopefully figure out which variety of the Jersey Coppers this one is.
I could use the help of the experts out there - do you see enough to figure out which variety it is? Here’s what I see:
- on the obverse the horse’s ears line up with the “C”, which is not the case on many Jersey Coppers
- also on the obverse I think the plow might be curved, but I can’t be sure.
- on the reverse the bottom of the horizontal lines of the shield line up with the “N” in UNUM; many of the Jersey Copper examples I see don’t line up this way.
Please share your thoughts on what these details might mean.
As for the other finds, here’s what I kept:
- (first row) Crotal bell piece; button with shank that says “plated” and has stars; a cool Union Pacific Lucky Piece from 1934; a BAYER bottle top
- (second row) a buckle that might be a knee or shoe buckle?; a pump organ reed
- (third row) two modern dimes, a zinc penny and two wheat pennies (1920 and an unknown date)
Thanks for checking this out!
- Brian
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