Old park gives up an LC

baspinall · Jul 16, 2009

Hunted about three hours or so today. Man it was hot. Anyway I found 5+ dollars in clad, a nice silver ring and a drilled Large Cent. The LC is pretty toasted. All I can make out is the wreaths on the back. This my first drilled coin. Still old stuff out there just have to take it slow.

Brian

Detectingfreak · Jul 16, 2009

Nice job on the large cent and the silver ring!

Tank69 · Jul 16, 2009

garthbfan169 · Jul 16, 2009

WTG Brian!! Not bad at all brother!! We got to get out soon!! :headbang:

Slipperyjack47 · Jul 17, 2009

Nice bunch of finds! I once found a huge jar of drilled large cents at a antique store, the owner told me he got them off an old barn roof where the farmer had drilled the LC's to use as washers as the were cheaper than paying 3 cents a piece to buy copper washers. :icon_scratch:

Slipperyjack47

lonewolfe · Jul 17, 2009

nice haul!

HH

dfx willy · Jul 17, 2009

COOL FIND!! I THINK I FOUND ONE OF THOSE LAST YEAR BUT I TOSSED IT BEFORE I REALLY LOOKED IT OVER NOT THINKING IT MIGHT BE A LARGE CENT TILL AFTER I GOT HOME. DAAA. WILLY.

jeff of pa · Jul 17, 2009

cool on the LC & Ring !

Looks like somone needed a Washer :tongue3:

PAUL2006 · Jul 17, 2009

West Jersey Detecting · Jul 17, 2009

Slipperyjack47 said:
Nice bunch of finds! I once found a huge jar of drilled large cents at a antique store, the owner told me he got them off an old barn roof where the farmer had drilled the LC's to use as washers as the were cheaper than paying 3 cents a piece to buy copper washers.

Slipperyjack47

From what I had read, it was pretty common to use old large cents as washers after the intro of the small cents made them virtually worthless. Other uses were coat checks and advertising.

Nice find!

Deno · Jul 17, 2009

Sweet.

PAdigs · Jul 17, 2009

Great finds!

allen · Jul 18, 2009

all that clad adds up !!
sweet silver ring !!

goldeagle · Jul 18, 2009

awesome!wish i was there,way to go bud

Roger Mn. · Jul 18, 2009

Thats a nice looking ring. :thumbsup:

crazyjarhead · Jul 18, 2009

Nice hunt and lots of diggin Brian. Too bad about the dead center hole. Still a nice one. How old is it? I hope I didn't miss it in your post

baspinall · Jul 19, 2009

crazyjarhead said:
Nice hunt and lots of diggin Brian. Too bad about the dead center hole. Still a nice one. How old is it? I hope I didn't miss it in your post

Can't get a date $:-\$ Really bad shape.