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23 large cents, colonial cents this year impossible?

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jabbo

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My reply to "Some Finds" post was deleted, maybe the moderator couldn't believe it, but its true all 23 were found this year in NJ within 15 miles of my house. They're bigger than a quarter, are easy to detect, and give a high tone like a quarter, a signal anyone would dig. My best day this year for colonial cents was four 1700's King Georges in 3 hours in one location. Here in NJ large cents can most likely be found in every square mile of the state, the ones I found were not more than 8" deep and gave high tones. Many towns here are Pre-revolutionary war, great for old coins. Yea, found plenty of large cents, but I'd rather be finding more 1800's silver, they are rare for me. Maybe an E-Trac would get the deep silver.
 
Central Jersey between Somerville and Plainfield. Many of these coins were found in Millstone and E. Millstone in cornfields and woods, also Piscataway wooded areas. Deep into the woods is not good, almost no signals, gotta be closer to the road. Been back to these and other places many times again with no more luck. Gotta find new places now.
 
I grew up in NYC and would frequently travel to NJ and PA
But I only started detecting 4 years ago in the very historic area I now live in that being WNY
I have lived in this area almost 18 years and I continue to be amazed by it's history
I frequent old grounds in the hope of finding older coins but it took 2 years before I found my first large cent (1810)
It is the oldest large cent I have found so far aside from the coppers I found while detecting in England
Since then I have found 4 more LC's with the last one the most legible and posted in "some finds"
Your ability to find and describe directions to better find large cents and coppers is commendable
And I will keep in mind your suggestion when I hunt because of your great success in finding these type of coins
But to suggest that these coins are very prevalent and easy to find is misguided

I will confirm that when finding a large cent it always sounded like a quarter or better because of it's size
But I belong to a MD club and there are not alot of members who have found a LC
And this club has members with all type of detectors and all types of experience
I do not believe it would be proper to criticize someone who has not found a LC and suggest that it is so easy to find
and then to suggest that they are lacking in some way because they have not found a LC

The Forum is an Amazing place to get advise and share and ask questions

No one comes to the Forum to be told that they are not good enough
 
The term "easy" is relative.
If one is in the right place anything might be "easy" to find.
It was "easy" to find a few dollars of silver, every day,..... 30 years ago.
If the LC's were turned up in a plowed field that never had a detector over it, I bet it was "easy".
In areas that aren't disturbed too, LC's can be shallow and sound off mightily.
I personally know a guy who found on his own farm 8 NJ coppers, a 1793 LC and a handful of LC's that somebody was using for target practice.All in one day !
And,I can understand why early silver is scarce; it wasn't carried much because it wasn't needed.
Why did they make half cents if things weren't dirt cheap ??
It's been written that a lot of early Halves are in excellent condition because they were mainly shuttled between banks, not carried by the populace.
Old Colonials and LC's were the coin of the realm for the common man, who most likely was a farmer or a laborer of some sort.
And if you keep in mind that taverns in some ares were spaced about every few miles along the old turnpikes,that makes for a lot of potential sites to find coppers.Drunks drop things in the dark.
Just sayin'
 
Banditicey, Does my post seem to say you or others are not good enough, I hope not. MineLab users beat me by a mile for deeper silver. For anyone who has not found a large cent yet my post lets them know a large cent gives a solid high tone and for sure they will dig it. Now my problem is finding more "out-of-the-way" hot spots. I might return to the weedy places in the spring after the heavy snow flattens the tall weeds, hope to find 1800's silver. Last June I was sitting in my car in a park trying to decide where to start searching. There is a small (maybe 500 Ft. x 700 Ft) wooded area (purchased by the park from the adjacent farm) across the road that didn't look inviting but I decided to give it a try. My first dig was an axe head then some shotgun shells. I was going to leave at that point but one of the shotgun shell signals turned out to be an Indian Head penny, they sound alike. Started digging every shotgun shell signal. After several trips there I found seventeen 1800's coins. Total was: two Shield nickles, one Seated Dime, one 1853 silver 3 cent piece, a no date Standing Liberty quarter and the rest were Indian Head pennies. Why were those 1800's coins in that small patch of woods, I will never know. My last few trips there produced just one Wheatie. Every time I drive past there I say to myself "Who would have ever known". My main detector is Fisher ID Edge, have all 3 coils. Also have the CoinStrike with 3 coils, is equal to the Edge in depth. Neither are as deep as MineLabs but both are still excellent detectors. HH
 
jabbo,
I know what you mean.
I was hunting an old picnic grove that wasn't around before 1906.
Before that I suppose it was just a wood lot ??
But near the property line,next to an almost illegible tree stump I pulled out an 1832 Half Cent,a Draped Bust Large Cent and a 1747 spanish "bit"; which is just a little snip of a thing.
So somebody must've been there about 100 years before there ever was a picnic grove.
A hunter ? a farmer ? Who knows.
Treasure is where you find it.
 
I got 3 nice coronet head large cents this year,( my first year)and they were all very nice hits on the e trac,no deeper than 6 inches,hard to miss for sure,1-47/48 two at colonial cellar holes and my favorite; one 1827 from a county park that didn't exist untill 1920 or so,but there was a lot of whisky rebellion activity in the area,I live in the heart of the area where it started!!! Can't wait till the spring! ,I love seeing those big greenys pop out of the plug!
 
Hey Jabbo- No doubt here. I can vouch first-hand seeing many of your finds. In fact, it was hunting with you the first time in April of this year, that I had found my first LC, an 1840. It was the oldest coin to date that I had recovered when, just two months later, finding a 1775 KG III half penny.
 
Ken, Thanks for vouching for me. Here's a group shot including the two 1853 silver 3 cent pieces. The stack on the left is colonials or early U.S. large cents, no visible details. The coin next to the stack is a 1837 hard times token in fair shape, can barely see the eagle in this photo. The coin next to the token has a harp with a crown, British I think. The bottom row are King Georges I, II, & III., the oldest being 1718, the newest 1775. The 3rd row is NJ coppers. Also found this summer a 1874 counterfit seated dime, most of the silver plating was peeled off when I found it, some plating still exists, and 5 real seated dimes.
 
1873. Never knew coins were counterfitted till I found this one.Found in the woods this summer. The base metal isn't pitted but turned black and is thinner than a real dime. Some silver plating still on it. Unusual find to say the least.
 
Your Photos and Finds ar Outstanding

I never questioned your finding the LC's just that it is not as "EASY" as it has been for you

I found an unidentifiable LC in a farm field after detecting 8 hours, I don't see that as easy

Congrats Again on your very impressive finds
The counterfeit seated would have made me furious and then curious
 
Banditicey, Easy for the detector is what I meant. Eight hours detecting is a long time. Some fields have nothing to give, I've been there many times.
 
Are you sure that is a counterfeit coin? I have seen that effect on chemical (farm Chemicals) burned coins. Electrolysis cleaning will remove most of the black but it will often leave the surface pitted from the burn. Rick IL.
 
Rick, Thank you for your input. It caused me to scrape a portion of the edge in two places, the metal is a bright silver color, not black. The dime is very thin and a magnifying glass shows pitting but it seems to be solid silver and not silver plated. When I found it I questioned it on a different forum and was told coins were counterfeited back then because you could buy a lot with it. It was found in the woods, we have mild soil here but something caused this coin to corrode badly. For awhile I thought I had a very unique dime. Thanks again, Jabbo
 
I found a steel centered CC mint dollar that was made to fund the civil war, at least thats what I was told. Mine was very thickly coated with silver over a steel blank, then struck with a die. It doesn't weigh correctly and it sticks to a magnet. The yellowish color of the silver was the give away for me. Idigid
 
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