First Old Coin Today!!

bullshrink

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Jan 14, 2012
100
30
western mass
Detector(s) used
Whites MXT, Minelab Excalibur II 1000
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Well convinced the wife to go out and hike with me and the kids today. we hit a old cellar hole and found three buttons and a thimble.we then hiked further down the trail and found a old looking area , lots of really old maples and thick stone walls. as we are hiking back i turn on the detector and within 5 mins i get a Solid 25 cent hit. i dig it up in about in of dirt.i pull it out and its a coin!finally!!!!as it dried in my wife fleece jacket it started shedding the layer of dirt. got home and ran it under the faucet and found it to be a 1838 large cent! very cool i cant wait to get back out.
 

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that smear is bagbalm.lol......my hands are cut from glass and dried from dirt.i should wear gloves.
 

that's in really great condition. congrats on a super find. I wish there were some of those around here
 

That's a great looking coin congrats and good hunting!!!
 

Awesome! That'sin killer shape.
 

i have only found 1 LG cent out of 4 that even comes close to that(an 1856)..thats a keeper for sure
 

Congrats . very nice. My first old coin was an 1838 lc in great shape also. They had good copper that year I guess! I have since found 8 more LCs none in that kind of shape or even close. Yours is in great cond. AND has little wear and that's a great combo! :notworthy:
 

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