Found my oldest coin to date!! Confirmed the coin... George I halfpenny 1723

[jnott5]

Thanks to Don in SJ (for giving me the specs) and for JC for weighing and measuring I can confirm that the George I coin (1723) is a halfpenny and not a farthing like I thought...The weight and size is right for the halfpenny...Here are a couple of new photos....I am afraid to clean too hard on a coin that old...

 

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[wyattrr]

Re: Found my oldest coin to date!!

Cool Coin...In pretty good shape too...HH

 

[stryker-one]

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Nice 1723--that is a good oldest coin to find. Congratulations Good pictures.

Thank you for Sharing

Stryker

 

[bookfisher]

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Congrats on finding such an early King George II copper with a readable date! I have found many King George Coppers but all except two are so corroded that you can't read the date. The two with dates are 1737 & 1738, so you have me beat. WTG!

 

[Magic Fingers]

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Nice find with that coin....congrats

 

[Elvis]

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Wow, I'm still trying to break the 1900's. 1901 IH so far. Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

 

[panzermeyer]

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High fives !!! awesome coin find...hh..Panz

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

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Nice coin!

WTG!

 

[Master Sarge]

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That is one nice coin!!! What do you think it is worth?

 

[funkman]

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congrats on a fantastic find!!!! Hope to find a my first colonial era coin this year.

WTG!!

Funkman

 

[Don in SJ]

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Congrats on your find, it looks like a Halfpenny and not the Farthing, judging the size with your fingers

Halfpenny , roughly a tad over 1 inch in diameter
Farthing , roughly .9 inch, so just a bit under


Don

 

[Iron Maiden]

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Cool find! I'd like to find something that old. It's in great shape too for being 285 years old! 8)

 

[jnott5]

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Thanks for the info Don...I will measure the coin....BTW...no idea of value but to me I just enjoy the find...and thanks for looking everyone

 

[Natman]

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I think I'd keel over right there in the corn field if I found that..what a find! WTG

Nat

 

[halfdime]

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What a great find! Our end of the state doesn't yield too many like that .

 

[Rob66]

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Nice piece of history in your hand... great job!!!!!!

 

[DirkSears]

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That's an excellent find! Good work!

 

[daytondigger]

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Wow, congratulations. You've beat my oldest coin by a hundred years.

 

[BuckleBoy]

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Bravo to you! That's a beautiful coin. I'm still on the quest for King George...

They're a tough find here in Kentucky.


Regards,


Buckleboy

 

[sndman60]

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Great coin still in great shape for the age. Woould you mind sharing some tech. 411 about your XLT? I have an XLT and I am still faily new using it and still fairly new at detecting as I just started detecting in Dec 07 and got my new XLT about 3 weeks ago. I was wondering how deep the target was and aboput what did it ring at. BTW I am in VA and was told this is a dificault place to metal detect due to the veery unfavorable groound conditions. Thanks for any help. Just a great dig, congrats.

Gary