Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

my oldest coin! an how old is it!!

M

maineman1

New member
hope most of you are enjoying your day off. Anyway the other day like Thursday i was working my part time job an noon was coming in so i thought OK! I'm not doing anything so ill go detect! I though working in the area where they have had a couple of wedding i would find something but nope! not there so i took my A T pro an walked over to the side of the fence area an found a stirrup pretty old an thought OK! ill keep working this one . then i got a hit in the mud about 8 inches down.Now there was some new gravel on the top a few years old along with a mix of older ground. AS i check this hit out i saw the coin roll around in the mud an i knew right off it was old! when i picked it up it was not the usual rounded coin but an older one. Now i couldn't see much on it so i took it inside an washed it off but still couldn't read much. I needed a magnifier but left mine at home so we tried the pencil an shading the coin on paper but no good. then i checked the trunk again as i was pretty excited that this was an older coin then what i have ever found. then it hit me i had a lens from an old pair of binoculars in the trunk so got them out an went back inside to see if i could make any thing out. Well after matching some of the letters up i went on to the sweet computer an goggled what i could make out Any way what i had found was a( State coin from Connecticut) This coin was a draped bust facing left an the year was 1787 Mg! i was so happy 225 years old this coin was . an to find it in back was just to neat to do. But now i understand the coin was so badly eroded due to the copper content. Well! just wanted to share that i finally made a good hit even though it was lousy condition. Happy hunting guys now i just need to find gold an then i will be happy
 
Congrats on the Colonial copper! Got any pics? I know they wind up looking like plain brown discs, but still...
 
OK! will try to get you a pic of it. MY camera is busted now need new one but will try!! thanks for reading my post!
 
Congrats on the colonial, I just dug up my first one a couple weeks ago. Before I cooked it we could see it was a draped bust facing right 1796-1807. All you can make out now is the back. I need to be more patient next time.
 
That one's still got some good looks to it, Black Davy. I stopped trying to clean them beyond light dish soap and a medium bristled scrub brush. They basically lose all definition in the soil around here... Even most wheaties are impossible to read here.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top