How about a Show & Tell :D:...................

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

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[Mike Chgo area]

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[Philo_NY]

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Here's my oldest coin to date. Here in the Bronx, while Gen. Washington was being persued by the British at what is now Pelham Bay Park and up Shore Road, I came about a coin like this one. The date is very difficult to see, but according to the style its date may be between 1768-1786, which places it right smack in the revolutionary war period, and being that about 4,000 British Troops marched up Shore Road, gives me good evidence that this was dropped by a British Soldier.

I was working an area off a trail on Shore Road about 100 yards from the shore, and received that all familiar high pitch copper signal om my Explorer II. I dug down about 16" inches and out pops this lagre disc, I knew I had a keeper, but which type I didn't know. The penny was very encrusted and couldn't read the date, but I will ever be grateful for a find like this one... I'lll post the original when I find it and take a picture of the large penny... Thanks for looking and God b;ess.

Philo_NY

 

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