Thanks ModernMiner..... My first COLONIAL COPPER!!!!

[nc-joe]

What an excellent day of detecting with ModernMiner, DD-777 and Mave2535, aka Doug, Big Coppa Andy and Chris. We started out at the colonial house, and man did it live up to it's name! I got my first Colonial Copper, a 1782 Irish Halfpenny with a clipped planchet and slightly rotated reverse!!! My hand were TREMBLING when I pulled out the coin. I thought I finally landed my first large cent, but holy cow it was WAY BETTER THAN THAT!!! I also got the large brass cotter pin at that location.

After that we went to the Civil War house, the remaining pictured finds came from there including the saddle stirrup (may be civil war era, but does not appear to be brass, but iron) a couple "what is it's?" and a really cool tiny bottle lid that appears may be from a salt shaker or something with a very tiny mechanical lever that opens and closes the holes at the top!

I can't tell you how grateful I am to these three for inviting me to hunt with them!

 

[aa battery]

cool

 

[Pentico]

Wow that is an outstanding Colonial Copper!!!!!
Congratulations!

DN

 

[ModernMiner]

Joe,
YOU da Man!!!! I could tell by your smirk when you headed my way you had something good. I didn't think it would be that good though! That's two times in a row now I've hunted with you guys and saw Colonial copper pulled up right in front of me. Hopefully my turn comes soon.
I can't tell you how many times I've detected that front yard. I guess the saying, "no place is ever hunted out" holds true again.

Folks,
Joe's Colonial copper looks WAY better in person. It is a real beauty.

A big CONGRATS to you Joe.
See you again soon I hope,
Doug

 

[RickyP]

Their not going to invite you back now! nice copper

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Thats a sweet find! Now that you found your first 1700s coin the second and third will be easy and take no time to find. You guys sound like a great bunch to hunt with, MM looked that place how many times he was just leaving that copper for you to find..

 

[weasel606]

WOW joe i just read MM's post and had to come see what you found thats an awesome find a BIG CONGRATS to you now i got to go see if MM will take me hunting with him ! once again congrats

 

[ModernMiner]

Their not going to invite you back now! nice copper

I invited Mirage last year and he found a Spanish silver half reale.
I invite Joe and he finds a Colonial copper.
What gives?
Oh, I know what it is now. It's the Mighty Minelabs they were using.
Big dogs!
-MM-

 

[ModernMiner]

WOW joe i just read MM's post and had to come see what you found thats an awesome find a BIG CONGRATS to you now i got to go see if MM will take me hunting with him ! once again congrats

Weas,
You are o.k.
I see you have a Minelab too, so you will probably pull out a gold coin in front of me.
-MM-

 

[Ed-NH]

Congrats on your first large and very old copper. They become addicting 8)

 

[goldencoin]

Neat copper, it looks like a clipped planchet error...

HH
-GC

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice find Joe!!

 

[AUinAZ]

Congrats on the stellar find.....HH


db

 

[DD-777]

Their not going to invite you back now! nice copper

I invited Mirage last year and he found a Spanish silver half reale.
I invite Joe and he finds a Colonial copper.
What gives?
Oh, I know what it is now. It's the Mighty Minelabs they were using.
Big dogs!
-MM-

Shame on you Douglas - remember that I found mine with a Tesoro...

Joe - Can't tell you how happy I was for you today with that stellar find - I'm sure your fellow club members will be a little green with envy... We'll all have to come down to you next and hunt for shell casings on the west side of Charlotte...

Here's a decent pic of you with your copper...

 

[dave-enc]

wtg on copper Joe great find
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[tymcmurray]

Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!!

 

[dfx willy]

all righty now! that sure is awesome. i havent had the great fortune to find one of those yet. willy.

 

[Don in SJ]

Congratulations Joe on your first Colonial copper! A date to boot, don't get much better than that. If you get a chance, see if you can weigh the coin in either grams or grains, if not, no big deal, just curious. Most Irish Halfpennies found here, especially 1781 and 1782 are counterfeits, just like the vast majority of KGIII Halfpence are, by appearances of the letter spacing and date, I would go in that direction.
I have two 1781's and one 1782 Irish and all of them are counterfeits, all underweight from the 140 grains minumum.

Don

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Holy crap Joe. This is what i'm talkin about. You guys are in an awesome area that would produce this type of coin every time you guys go out. You are in an area that should provide on average much more Reales,Cobs, Irish half pennies etc than my small group would normally find.. Congratulations and keep seeking this type of find with a passion. You should start doing research according to this time frame. EGGZELLENT.
Chris

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Nice find!! That is in damn good shape.. keep it up!!!

MB