mapper65
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Hi everyone, tonight my Mom and I went back to a very old site that is owned by a family member. This property is right up against and was originally part of the land that the original homestead of the family that the town was named after is on. We have been to this site a few other times and on our first trip I found my oldest legible coin to date, an 1834 Capped Half Dime.
Since we got our Digger coils we've been wanted to go back and see if we had missed anything and tonight was the first chance that we had. About 10 minutes after we started my Mom yells over to me "hey, I think I have a large cent". She's had a large cent on her list for awhile but has never found one. As soon as I looked at it, the size felt exactly that of a large cent although just very slightly thicker than the one and only large cent that I have found. We kept detecting and found a few small artifacts and got forced out by rain.
When we put water on the coin at the site it thought I could see the outline of a person but it was hard to tell. Since then I lightly brushed it with a brass brush and a little Dawn and almost instantly the bust of what appears to be a man showed up. I can't make anything out on the other side. At least for now I don't want to brush the coin anymore.
Does anyone have any idea what this is. I placed it on top of my large cent and it's really exactly the same diameter. It could be a token but it really seems like a coin to me. I've gone way back in my coin book and nothing is jumping out at me. My brother thinks it's along the lines of a 1791 Washington Eagle Cent. There are a few variation of that coin and this looks kind of similar.
Here is what I see to get you started. The bust is looking to the left. It had a fairly wide collar at the bottom and it appears to have a ribbon in it's hair between the neck and the collar on the right side. These pictures are very similar but I tried to slightly tilt the coin in each picture to highlight different areas. I just wet it and rubbed some Dawn on it and the image shows up. Once it drys the image goes away. I can't really make anything else out on the face of it but we were kind of thinking that maybe we saw a few stars over on the left side but we're not really sure about that. I think based on the outline of the image this should line up exactly with something once the right example is found somewhere either online on in a book.
Since we got our Digger coils we've been wanted to go back and see if we had missed anything and tonight was the first chance that we had. About 10 minutes after we started my Mom yells over to me "hey, I think I have a large cent". She's had a large cent on her list for awhile but has never found one. As soon as I looked at it, the size felt exactly that of a large cent although just very slightly thicker than the one and only large cent that I have found. We kept detecting and found a few small artifacts and got forced out by rain.
When we put water on the coin at the site it thought I could see the outline of a person but it was hard to tell. Since then I lightly brushed it with a brass brush and a little Dawn and almost instantly the bust of what appears to be a man showed up. I can't make anything out on the other side. At least for now I don't want to brush the coin anymore.
Does anyone have any idea what this is. I placed it on top of my large cent and it's really exactly the same diameter. It could be a token but it really seems like a coin to me. I've gone way back in my coin book and nothing is jumping out at me. My brother thinks it's along the lines of a 1791 Washington Eagle Cent. There are a few variation of that coin and this looks kind of similar.
Here is what I see to get you started. The bust is looking to the left. It had a fairly wide collar at the bottom and it appears to have a ribbon in it's hair between the neck and the collar on the right side. These pictures are very similar but I tried to slightly tilt the coin in each picture to highlight different areas. I just wet it and rubbed some Dawn on it and the image shows up. Once it drys the image goes away. I can't really make anything else out on the face of it but we were kind of thinking that maybe we saw a few stars over on the left side but we're not really sure about that. I think based on the outline of the image this should line up exactly with something once the right example is found somewhere either online on in a book.
