:clapping:CX III FINDS FIRST LARGE COPPER!!!

[Neil in West Jersey]

I found a site using google earth near a historic home. It looked great on google earth from 300 feet, like a bunch of old foundations but when I got there it was old foundations turned into a BMX track!!!!

I found tons of clad at wipe out turns, and I was about to dig another one, i could tell by the tone & depth. When I went to rest my machine I heard a different bell tone stronger and crisper.." Quarter at 0 inches is what my CX III read. I did not even dig, I just waved my bullseye and found it on the surface under a shrub!!![attachment 28281 2006_0528Image0004.JPG]
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Unfortunately I will probably never know what it is it is worn smooth, but my hunch is a New Jersey Post Colonial issue.

Feel free to mess with the gamma, brightness & contrast if you think you can ID it. Let me know if you want to see high resolution pics.

 

[steelheadfever]

I don't know anything about copper coins or their values, but could you use electrolysis to clean the copper coin and see what it is? HH Dennis in Idaho

 

[John-Edmonton]

I haven't found one of those for a while.

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

I posted that question in another forum...Here is what someone whose expertise I respect very much had to say

Try an Aluminum foil rubbing with shiny side down. If you see nothing on the rubbing at all, and you can photograph a rubbing, I have done it to help ID..... But if nothing shows on a rubbing, the it is time for a brass brush rubbing.

Neil, I an not an advocate of soaking a coin in Olive oil, just makes a mess and if the coin is in anyway porous, you will have Olive oil leaching out for years to come.

Usually Large Cents tend not wear in that pattern, however the early year ones like 1796 to 1807 do, so that is number one possibility based on odds, then next would be a counterfeit King George III copper..........They were plentiful....but of course it could be any number of one of the old coppers, I would only rule out a later year large cent and nothing else.....