Shallow signal surprise - 1760 Hibernia half penny!

[Darby]

My buddy Jdsly and I went for our third trip to our new colonial mill site this weekend. Found a few buttons, several musket balls, a really cool hand sickle Jdsly dug and some other cool relics. Got a loud, high signal and immediately thought it would be trash being so shallow. I moved the leaves out of the way and checked again and the signal moved with the leaves. Before I could check it with my pinpointer I saw it, laying on the pile of leaves, and knew I finally had another coin! Here are the before and after cleaning pics.















This is only my third 18th century coin and although I know they aren't worth much, it's priceless to me!! Thanks for looking.

 

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[matt092079]

Nice! Beautiful shape to boot!

 

[Hillbilly Joe]

Great find!

 

[relicmeister]

Congratulations on a great find.Cleaned up real nice!

 

[SusanMN]

Wow, that cleaned up beautifully!

 

[Gaspipe]

Wow thats a beauty.

 

[Mkriegs]

how did you clean it so well?

 

[justdon]

Congrats.Thats really awesome.HH

 

[1stColonialRegiment]

Love those Hibernias! Great find. I would also like to know how you got so much detail off it?

 

[dig kzoo]

That is sweet, and cleaned up awesome. Congrats!

 

[vpnavy]

Thanks for sharing...

 

[mihmar79]

very nice! gz!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

It has great detail! Congrats!

 

[AQUA]

WOW..cleaned up very nice !!!

I got a big Irish copper with the same HARP on it.

CONGRATS

 

[detroitdigger]

Sweet find, thanks for sharing.

 

[park pirate]

Nice..

 

[treblehunter]

Beautiful, great find!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Great looking coin. I'm still looking to break into the 1700's. Got close last year with an 1804 U.S. Half cent

 

[ggossage]

Congrats! It sounds as though the coin's surface survived the years because the coin was practically on top of the ground only covered by brush instead of being exposed to elements in the soil...that's a great way to find them--congrats on a beauty!!!

 

[Darby]

Thanks everyone for your comments. I tried cleaning first with just soapy water. After that I used a quick coating of aluminum jelly and a very soft tooth brush (about 30 seconds each time) rinsed and checked. Did this a couple of times until I could see the detail. Seems to "dry out" the coin if you clean it too much. Dont think this is the best way to clean a delicate piece but did well on this coin. Thanks again for looking.