XP Deus finds one of the worlds rarest American coins.

[JBM1]

Jerry Morris a Octogenarian detectorist on the final swing of the day with his XP Deus last winter season heard a sweet sound on the headset.

A few minutes later he was holding a small copper coin rather like a English 1600`s copper farthing token.

It turned out to be a 1658-59 Lord Baltimore penny minted in London with just a few other samples,due to a shortage of coinage in the Colony for trading tobacco etc.

It has been authenticated by the British Museum experts as genuine and surfaced near the dock of the period, where goods were unloaded from the new world etc.

Funny old game this hobby of ours which never fails to throw up surprises.

Happy Hunting,

Jerry..

 

[HuntinDog]

WOW
Awesome find!!!

 

[Jim Robertson]

n/t

 

[Metal Magnet]

ridiculous! gosh, what an amazing find.

 

[NYNURSE]

n/t

 

[Sataro]

Congrats! That is certainly an amazing find...

 

[Lodge Scent]

Jerry,

Glad to see that was authenticated. That is WAY beyond cool.

Lodge.

 

[calabash digger]

find of a lifetime!

 

[Mega]

Jerry,a stunning find,what is also just as remarkable that you are still detecting at 83 years young,one of the 1st users of the Deus in the UK as well and the rest is history as they say.

 

[JBM]

Thanks Guys,I was just lucky.
The official XP blog has a fuller story.
More historical information is coming to light.
Happy Hunting.
Jerry.

 

[JBM1]

Lord Baltimore,Cecil Calvert,

Established and controlled the province of Maryland from his Yorkshire home namely Kiplin Hall in Yorkshire,England.

Another example of this pattern coin came to light in the James Bradley collection 1819 in a coin collection and eventually went to New York in 1867.

That being the case, we now have a precedent of a couple of these Baltimore copper pennies that did not go directly to America.

Perhaps they were keepsake examples.

It would be nice if the Coin collectors in the USA were made aware of this new data.

Happy Hunting,

Jerry.