My FIRST Large copper coin! and it was in my backyard! ID needed.

[Detectorist143]

I was 20 feet off my deck of a 1910 build home. My lot next door once had a 1850 school house on it. Found lots of IHP and other coins in that lot but never a large cent. It's my first!!!
It is larger than a braided hair and thin.
I am leaning towards a queen Vic bun head? Mid 10 late 1800's. Not even sure if it is copper or bronze. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all.

 

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[Troaso]

I was 20 feet off my deck of a 1910 build home. My lot next door once had a 1850 school house on it. Found lots of IHP and other coins in that lot but never a large cent. It's my first!!!
It is larger than a braided hair and thin.
I am leaning towards a queen Vic bun head? Mid 10 late 1800's. Not even sure if it is copper or bronze. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all.

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Awesome

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, it looks like a young Queen Victoria. I can see the female head facing left. Nice.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Well done !

 

[Mr. Digger]

Congrats. That coin may have been in a fire and could be tough to get a positive ID. I found one that looked like that last year and even after a couple of days in the tumbler there were no details revealed. Still a great find though...especially since it came from your own property!

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

I was 20 feet off my deck of a 1910 build home. My lot next door once had a 1850 school house on it. Found lots of IHP and other coins in that lot but never a large cent. It's my first!!!
It is larger than a braided hair and thin.
I am leaning towards a queen Vic bun head? Mid 10 late 1800's. Not even sure if it is copper or bronze. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all.

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Congrats. That coin may have been in a fire and could be tough to get a positive ID. I found one that looked like that last year and even after a couple of days in the tumbler there were no details revealed. Still a great find though...especially since it came from your own property!

such a great save, and in you own yard. way cool

 

[pepperj]

Nothing beats getting an oldie out one's backyard, congrats.
I can see Vickies profile but it's pretty hard to see which profile

The 1858-1859 1-cent coin features the design of Leonard C. Wyon of the Royal Mint. It portrays a young Queen Victoria wearing a laurel wreath. In actual fact the Queen was decidedly older and pudgier in the 1850s, so it is considered that the image on the coins of this year portrayed the idealized image of the Queen.

The obverse was re-designed, again by Leonard C. Wyon of the Royal Mint for 1876, showing a more mature and portly Queen Victoria wearing a diademed crown.
Slightly different versions of this design were used until her death in 1901

Canadian 1 Cent Obverse Design Evolution

www.saskatooncoinclub.ca

 

[Digger RJ]

I was 20 feet off my deck of a 1910 build home. My lot next door once had a 1850 school house on it. Found lots of IHP and other coins in that lot but never a large cent. It's my first!!!
It is larger than a braided hair and thin.
I am leaning towards a queen Vic bun head? Mid 10 late 1800's. Not even sure if it is copper or bronze. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all.

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Nice!!! Congrats!!!