Wahoo !!!!!! A dream comes true !!!!

Brian in MA · Aug 10, 2008

Research and hard work finally paid off in a huge way !!!!

I was finding mostly late 1800's relics and coins but knew the area was farmed as early as the 1640's so the potential was there for something really old to come out of the ground. I have been dreaming of finding one of these coins for years. I have seen 'Tree Coins' dug by other hunters which was quite a thrill. But, nothing compares to locating and digging one for yourself.

It's a 1662 Oak Tree Two Pence. It's the tiny thing next to the Barber and Mercury dimes. It's not in great shape but it's not holed or bent and it's the prettiest thing I've dug in the 30+ years that I've been detecting and I couldn't be happier !!!

Thanks for looking and Happy Hunting !!!

Brian in MA

brnn53 · Aug 10, 2008

Congrats Brian! Those are nice finds!
Mike

Captn SE · Aug 10, 2008

Come On!!

If that's the best thing you have found in 30+ years of detecting, then it deserves a better pic.

Let's see a closeup of the front and back of the coin!! I'm sure the mods would love a good pic of it for the BANNER!!! :occasion18:

Being on the West coast, I've never seen this type of coin before.

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

Shaw · Aug 10, 2008

Very Nice finds - Thats an oldie for sure!

Congrats on digging on of your dreams, research pays off in the end.

Narthoniel · Aug 10, 2008

holy cow, that is a BEAUTIFUL find for US soil. And I whole heartedly agree, we need a better picture!

l.cutler · Aug 10, 2008

Bartman · Aug 10, 2008

Incredible find. Please post a close up of it so I can drool some more.

Iron Patch · Aug 10, 2008

BANNER bigtime on that one! Man that is something else. :thumbsup:

Burdie · Aug 10, 2008

Picture, Picture, please. a close up. Your teasing us I can't wait to see a close up.

Burdie

washingtonian · Aug 10, 2008

Thats a serious dig, great find!

muttandjeeps · Aug 10, 2008

Outstanding find! My son and I found two 1788 Massachusetts cents last week, but both are pretty much unreadable. So at over 100 years older, I think your find is in incredible shape. You should be doing the happy dance!!!
Kevin

Brian in MA · Aug 10, 2008

Thanks for the replies guys... I'm still shaking !!!! I used that pic to show the size comparison to the dimes. This coin is tiny. But, since you all want to see close ups. Here they are: (hopefully when the wife gets home with the 'good' camera I can get some better pics...)

What a day !!!!

Brian

tymcmurray · Aug 10, 2008

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That baby deserves a photo close up and all by itself!!!
Allowing us to drool!

tymcmurray · Aug 10, 2008

Just a minute too late. LOL

Iron Patch · Aug 10, 2008

Dude, there ain't nothing wrong with that detail.

Captn SE · Aug 10, 2008

FIND OF A LIFETIME!!!

WOOO HOOOOO!!!!! :wav:

I'm excited for you, Brian!!! Thanks for the enlarged pics!!

This will be a day you will never forget!!

The Oak Tree twopence is both the simplest and the most complicated coin in the series. It is simple because there was only one obverse die and one reverse die, thus there is only one possible combination. However, Noe distinguished six different states in the recutting of the reverse die and gave each state a number (Noe 29-Noe 34). Since then other intermediary stages have been described, several of which are not recuttings but show the growth of a die break that occurred between the A and the N in "ENGLAND." Many extant examples of this coin are worn and it is virtually impossible to assign a precise number to them. An unusual situation when only one set of dies exists! This situation led Michael Hodder to publish his "Plea for Reason" in the use of the Noe numbers [Michael J. Hodder, "A Plea for Reason," The Colonial Newsletter 34 (November 1994, serial no. 98) 1476]. This coin is the only twopence denomination in the New England silver series and is the only coin in the series to bear a date other than 1652 (it is dated 1662), thus it is highly sought by collectors, but probably the most difficult coin to catalog in a precise fashion given the current taxonomy.

CAPTN SE
Dan