1787 Fugio Cent

[Clad2Silver]

On Sunday, we hunted an old, no longer used football field that dates back to the 1950's. The old rusted goalposts and scoreboard still stand as does one set of rusted bleachers. We hunted for about two and a half hours and in that time we dug 75 clads with a face value of $10.23. About a half hour before we left I got a solid hit on my AT Max with a VDI reading of 87 which generally means a clad quarter. The depth reading was at four bars which means somewhere between six and eight inches deep. I dug the plug and at seven inches i could see the coin in the plug and my first thought was a clad half or a token. After rubbing some dirt off the coin I could see that it was a Fugio Cent minted in my home state of Connecticut in 1788 but dated 1787. Unfortunately, it's pretty well toasted but it's my oldest US coin find ever.

 

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[Clad2Silver]

Thank you.....

 

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[dognose]

a great find. congrats.

 

[Clad2Silver]

a great find. congrats.

Thank you.....

 

[Silvermonkey]

What an awesome find! Proof that you just never can predict when and where gloriously old, beautiful coins are going to show up. Congrats to you!

 

[Clad2Silver]

What an awesome find! Proof that you just never can predict when and where gloriously old, beautiful coins are going to show up. Congrats to you!

Thank you very much.....I thought that I might possibly dig a silver coin at this site but had no thoughts whatsoever about finding a colonial coin.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on a very nice find.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Congrats on a very nice find.

Thank you.....

 

[diamonddave]

Congrats! Gotta love those unexpected bucketlisters.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Congrats! Gotta love those unexpected bucketlisters.

Thanks Dave.......it's definitely one of my bucket listers.

 

[Cochisz]

On Sunday, we hunted an old, no longer used football field that dates back to the 1950's. The old rusted goalposts and scoreboard still stand as does one set of rusted bleachers. We hunted for about two and a half hours and in that time we dug 75 clads with a face value of $10.23. About a half hour before we left I got a solid hit on my AT Max with a VDI reading of 87 which generally means a clad quarter. The depth reading was at four bars which means somewhere between six and eight inches deep. I dug the plug and at seven inches i could see the coin in the plug and my first thought was a clad half or a token. After rubbing some dirt off the coin I could see that it was a Fugio Cent minted in my home state of Connecticut in 1788 but dated 1787. Unfortunately, it's pretty well toasted but it's my oldest US coin find ever.

Great find, Congrats

 

[Cochisz]

On Sunday, we hunted an old, no longer used football field that dates back to the 1950's. The old rusted goalposts and scoreboard still stand as does one set of rusted bleachers. We hunted for about two and a half hours and in that time we dug 75 clads with a face value of $10.23. About a half hour before we left I got a solid hit on my AT Max with a VDI reading of 87 which generally means a clad quarter. The depth reading was at four bars which means somewhere between six and eight inches deep. I dug the plug and at seven inches i could see the coin in the plug and my first thought was a clad half or a token. After rubbing some dirt off the coin I could see that it was a Fugio Cent minted in my home state of Connecticut in 1788 but dated 1787. Unfortunately, it's pretty well toasted but it's my oldest US coin find ever.

Great find

 

[Clad2Silver]

Great find

Thank you.....