My Oldest US Coin - It’s A Train-wreck!

[secondstar]

Good morning, I finally found a US coin from the 1700’s, 1798 to be exact, which makes this coin my oldest US coin to date.





This is one of those, “if you hold it just the right way” coins, but I had multiple sets of eyes confirm that they saw the 98. It was found in the middle of an old colonial trail which might explain its dreadful condition. Nonetheless, she’s my oldest US coin!

Mike

 

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[longislanddertfisher]

Fantastic save ! I’m hopeful for 1700’s one day.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your oldest U.S. coin. At least you can identify it.

 

[Rookster]

Nice save.Congrats

 

[A2coins]

wow clean that baby carefully great job

 

[smokeythecat]

It's still a good save. Almost all of mine have come out that way too.

 

[basque-man]

Great save!!!! She's not that bad!!!

 

[Kaleb71386]

Very nice!! I'd be happy with it

 

[smokeythecat]

BTW, do not use chemicals or even water on it. Get a set of the Andre's pencils. I was able to clean up and save both my GW button and a few nice early coppers and buttons using them. I'll never go back to chemicals again. Aquachigger on youtube has an eye opening video on how it's done.

 

[Eastcoasthunter21]

Beauty man nice job.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Love the old coppers...congratulations!

 

[IDXMonster]

Last digit is 8...head facing right...1808 is facing left...it HAS to be 1798. Fantastic find!

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Getting a definite date on any old copper is a win in my book. Most of my coppers look worse than your 1798 does! Some look okay out of the ground, but the details flake off after they dry, leaving me with just a slick coin.

 

[Mikebk03]

Nice old coin, Congrats!

 

[Hawks88]

That’s a great save. Congrats

 

[xcopperstax]

Good morning, I finally found a US coin from the 1700’s, 1798 to be exact, which makes this coin my oldest US coin to date.

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This is one of those, “if you hold it just the right way” coins, but I had multiple sets of eyes confirm that they saw the 98. It was found in the middle of an old colonial trail which might explain its dreadful condition. Nonetheless, she’s my oldest US coin!

Mike

That is not too bad... Congrats!!! I've found two draped busts and they are way more beat up! They take a good amount of imagination to see! One of them though caked with dirt promised to have some great detail. Took it home and tooth picked the obverse to reveal a smooth side. The reverse had some nice detail so I began to slowly tooth pick it and to my horror realized I was scraping the detail right off it! That is frustrating. The more coppers I find the more I realize one is lucky to get anything you can identify! It seems like sometimes the coin will retain great detail on one side and none on the other due to how it was in the ground. I found a CT copper but basically I'm gonna say I can't say for sure if I've hit the 1700's us coin mark!

 

[Switchblade]

Nice find!

 

[Rubka888]

Nice coin! I found a 1798 this year too and it was my first 1700's US coin

 

[RustyGold]

Awesome find wow! Congrats on the 1798 secondstar.

 

[Davers]

I'd take a 'Copper / LC /HC' In any condition.
Nice find indeed.