1814 Classic Head Large Cent!

[PaDirtDigger]

HELLLLLOOOO Everbody!
I am going to write a fairly extensive story about my 202 year old find today and I will have separate posts to keep the pictures straight, hope you all enjoy.

It begins with leaving work and looking for a place to use my new NEL Storm coil. I knocked on a couple doors, but there didn't seem to be anyone home anywhere. I felt like my chance to detect today want going to happen. I decided to drive around closer to home and when I was almost ready to throw in the towel, I decided to give the 1810 house a try. Since I wanted this bigger coil to be able to cover fields, I stayed in the back soy bean field. After Shotgun Wayne visited me 5 or 6 times, I heard some deep Booms off in the distance... And then I saw the lightning... After being here for about half an hour or so, I'm taking cover from the rain, and then the hail!

 

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[PaDirtDigger]

After the rain and pea size hail storm, I'm thinking I might as well just go home. But the rain and wind stopped like it never happened, so I checked the field and wasn't too terribly muddy, so I decided to stick it out. I'll guess another half hour rolled by, Shotgun Wayne said hello a few more times and then I got a nicer high signal. I wasn't sure what it might be, turned it to be a broken crotal bell.

 

[PaDirtDigger]

I'm happy with that, hoping that maybe I will get a whole one eventually. Well, that didn't happen today. Bummer. However, I did get another dandy signal about ten minutes later... I'm thinking it'll be a whole crotal bell...
I dig a pretty large hole, and it is still sounding off, I start to think it is going to be an iron or brass ring of sorts... Well, this is what I ended up seeing in the hole...

With and without a flash...

 

[PaDirtDigger]

I couldn't believe it... I said to myself, it must be a big button or something else... So I move it.... Holy cow... Sure did have that Large Cent look to it...
I pick it out, and give a quick wipe and I see perfectly ONE CENT... such a good feeling came over me...

 

[Ahab8]

Well done my friend. Always a welcome sight

 

[joee5]

Grats on the oldie

 

[PaDirtDigger]

Now it was time to see the obverse...

"Holy cow, No Way! Is it really that early? I think it says 1814!! Uh oh, starting to rain, I better hide this coin so it doesn't get wet"

That's pretty much what I recall saying to myself!!
Here's the obverse, and then the impression it left in the hole from its long slumber...

 

[Scrappy]

That's a great looking classic head Large cent. So often that series goes to **** in the ground with the cooper impurities in the planchets used. That's pretty much as good as they come! Amazing, congrats!

 

[PaDirtDigger]

I find some more things, a nice musket ball with scratchings... Maybe rifling marks? Tough to capture it in a picture. Also, a neat button from Philadelphia, haven't yet tried to really decipher the name, but I bet some of you guys will know it right away...

It was a great 2 hours spent there, and I am sooooooo impressed with how nice this Large Cent looks after being minted 202 years ago. You can still make out some of her curls still as well!

Thanks for looking, I hope writing it up this way was OK with everyone, only way I can be sure the pictures are in the right order using my phone and the TreasureNet app! :-) :-)

 

[Old Dude]

Very nice finds! Congrats on a great day

 

[PaDirtDigger]

Thanks for the quick replies... Ill have this at work with me tomorrow to share my tale to my co-workers... Some seem to be interested, other not so much... Heck, i just retell the tale for myself really... Hahaha!

 

[gheenoe78]

Nice coin. Thanks for all the pics. Still waiting to find my first LC!

 

[PaDirtDigger]

Nice coin. Thanks for all the pics. Still waiting to find my first LC!

And when you do..... BOOOOOOOM.... SUCH A RUSH! And that feeling never goes away with a largie.....NEVER.

 

[treblehunter]

She's a beauty! Good work.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[trapperart]

Nice finds congrats

 

[Loco-Digger]

Dang dude, you can fill the 1st page with just your posts alone. Awesome digs.

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

And when you do..... BOOOOOOOM.... SUCH A RUSH! And that feeling never goes away with a largie.....NEVER.

You're not lying. I've told this story before, but my first large cent was from 1835. I found it along an old fence line at my mom's farm. At first, I was excited to find a large cent but then it really hit me that someone possibly ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY YEARS AGO dropped this coin, in this spot, where I grew up playing and exploring and spending most of my days after school. I had probably walked over that coin, buried 8 inches deep, a hundred times throughout my life and now it was in my hand.

It was that particular find that made me really value the history of all finds, great and small, valuable and worthless.

Oh yeah! Congrats on all the great finds!

 

[danjsargent]

Great find! Congrats. Thanks for the story too!

 

[PaDirtDigger]

Dang dude, you can fill the 1st page with just your posts alone. Awesome digs.

Yeah sorry Loco! Using the app on my phone, I can't place a picture then words, then another picture, and more words... Etc... I tried writing some in the past and then posting the pictures in the order I spoke of them, and they weren't in the right order when they uploaded... So, I decided doing it that way was best, just to keep the flow if the story and pictures correct...

Btw, that coin captured everyone's attention today at work, adverb they realized I was talking about something 202 years old, that made them pay more attention... :sly::thumbup: