1788 Vermont Colonial Copper

[Neil in West Jersey]

Well I finally got out for a few hours this morning. I returned to a site I have searching for years, on and off. I have previously found colonial artifacts, but no coins older than 1887. The area around site has been inhabited since the 1660's. I spent the first hour or so in the woods trying my best to avoid the poison ivy. (I will let you know in a few days how successful I was!) I found the musket ball and the silver thing. I would have thought the silver was a modern piece of jewelry, but I found a very similar one at another colonial site about 50 miles away. It has loops on both sides, one is crushed. Does anyone know what it is? After an hour I hit the fields that have never produced for me before. I received a dime signal at 6 inches, but I knew after digging about 8 or 9 inches it wasn't a dime. I was pretty sure it was a coin. The ground is like concrete this time of year so it was no picnic digging the 10 inches or so to recover the coin, which I believe to be a very worn 1787 or 1788 Vermont Copper. it is 27.7mm and weighs only 88 grains (about 5.7 grams). Man that ACE 250 goes deep!

Any help with the ID is appreciated.
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[khouse]

Congratulation on what appears to me from you photo to be the 1788 copper. Even if it's not it's way older than anything I have found by 76 years. I have defended the 250 on another forum where they were saying it's a beginners low end starter detector. I think you have just proved otherwise.

 

[John-Edmonton]

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[Neil in West Jersey]

[quote khouse]CoI have defended the 250 on another forum where they were saying it's a beginners low end starter detector. I think you have just proved otherwise.[/quote]

While I do like the ACE, especially the incredible depth, I think a more advanced detectorist needs a little more than just depth. Among the missing things found on more "advanced" Garrett detectors are Frequency control, Threshold, and 24 graphic display instead of 12. I also find that the lack of automatic ground balance makes it more susceptible to "hot" rocks than my other Garrett.

Sure it will do for an experienced user, but IMHO I think it would be quickly outgrown.

 

[khouse]

Neil,
I very much agree with you on the ground balance. But it's a 200$ detector. Also I don't see the overkill of having 10 high coin segments? It's the trash we try to avoid although very hard. It would seem better to me if out of the 24 segments about 18 or more segments should be under high coin? If it says high coin we all dig anyway. I think the 12 segments on the Aces are enough. I'm not saying your wrong in any way. It's just how I look at the segment thing..

 

[pizzacoil]

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