hollowpointred
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Man am i stoked!! i went hunting for clad at a high school built in the 60s this morning not really looking for anything old when i get a 50 cent piece hit at 4 inches on the soccer field. out pops a 1850 LARGE CENT!
only two ways it could have gotten there! 1-some kid dropped it out of his pocket while playing soccer or 2- the man who owned the land in the 1800s dropped it while plowing his field! there is a farm that was owned by a man named TALLEY a half mile away that was built in 1814.(it is on my list of places to hit!) i also came away with:
1-925 silver ear ring
5-washington quarters
7- roosevelt dimes
2-jefferson nickels
4- memorial cents
1- english coin about the size of a silver dollar.it says ELIZABETH II. DG. RFG.FD on it and is dated 1977. anyone have an idea of what it might be? i am going to go to my fathers house and borrow his scanner so i can post a picture of the large cent and the english coin.i will try to post a pic later.
one other thing...........the large cent has that green corrosion on the back of the coin and a little on the front (you can clearly read the date though) i guess i should just leave it in this condition or should i find a way to clean it up? thanks for looking!!
only two ways it could have gotten there! 1-some kid dropped it out of his pocket while playing soccer or 2- the man who owned the land in the 1800s dropped it while plowing his field! there is a farm that was owned by a man named TALLEY a half mile away that was built in 1814.(it is on my list of places to hit!) i also came away with:
1-925 silver ear ring
5-washington quarters
7- roosevelt dimes
2-jefferson nickels
4- memorial cents
1- english coin about the size of a silver dollar.it says ELIZABETH II. DG. RFG.FD on it and is dated 1977. anyone have an idea of what it might be? i am going to go to my fathers house and borrow his scanner so i can post a picture of the large cent and the english coin.i will try to post a pic later.
one other thing...........the large cent has that green corrosion on the back of the coin and a little on the front (you can clearly read the date though) i guess i should just leave it in this condition or should i find a way to clean it up? thanks for looking!!
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You could try a "Coin Conditioner" if you really wanted to make it look better.
.........i guess you really do never know whats going to come out of the ground on a given day. it sure didn't have any business being in that soccer field!! i was hoping that maybe i would find some pottery shards or square nails around where the coin came from.......something to indicate that there was once a structure there and hopefully maybe a few more coins but i found nothing of the sort. i have to believe that this was a corn field back in the day and this coin was just randomly lost out of someones pocket.its really pretty unbelievable to me when i think of the chances of just stumbling over it!
