Oldest English Date Coin - It Predates Western Settlers in Seattle!

[washingtonian]

Hey everyone,

Spent some time detecting a part of Seattle I've never hunted today. It was slow for the most part. After 3.5 hours I'd only found a few Wheats.

My friend (Echoplex) suggested one last place I should visit. I wasn't finding much and decided I'd just detect for a short while Ionger. Well, glad I did!

I flipped a big disk out of the dirt and thought I had a clad half. Then I saw "One Cent" and was astounded. I figured it was a large Cent. Flip it over, nope! Check it out.



It's an 1845 East India Company large Cent. Pretty incredible history. It predates the Denny Party (first white settlers) landing on Seattle's shores by 6 years. What a piece of history.

I'm getting out early tomorrow, hopefully more to report!

Good luck all,
-W

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice recovery, congratulations!

IMHO: I would grid, slow sweep speed. coil low to the ground and dig every signal...you never know!

 

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[Hawks88]

That’s a great coin save. Good condition and love the patina. Congrats

 

[Truth]

Absolutely incredible! We always joke about finding large cents here but maybe there is one out here!

I convinced there’s not one LC in Louisiana lol

 

[Truth]

You are the man washingtonian I NEVER seen anything like that before. I hope to be half as good as you one day [emoji1317]

 

[washingtonian]

You are the man washingtonian I NEVER seen anything like that before. I hope to be half as good as you one day [emoji1317]

Haha thank you for the compliments but you are already there. Multiple capped busts this year, are you kidding me? I can't even find a seated coin up here