Fried Large Cent

[skierbob]

This is just to show you that all my finds aren't borderline unc. Hunted an old park in Wilmington, DE today. Large Cents don't hold up much better there than they do in PA. Check this out. I can just barely make out a date of 1824. What a shame.

 

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[kenb]

Great find! hammered to hell but a great find, congrats.

kenb

 

[TxTim]

I'll take it!!!!
Nice find!

 

[Darod]

Your right it's a shame

BUT! what that coin could tell you if it could talk! THAT's what I think about!

Great coin!

Rod

 

[coinman66]

Fried, scrambled, poached, I`ll take em anyway! Coinman66

 

[Snee]

Great find anyway!

 

[lonewolfe]

Your right it's a shame

BUT! what that coin could tell you if it could talk! THAT's what I think about!

Great coin!

Rod

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OP

nice find!

HH

 

[lordmarcovan]

Fried, scrambled, poached, I`ll take em anyway! Coinman66

Yep- me too! At least you could coax a date off of it, and see the type. My first dug large cent was a Draped Bust (1796-1807). I could tell that much when I found it, because I could see Liberty's hair bow and so on. But I tried to clean it with electrolysis and totally burnt it up. You wanna talk fried? It ain't nothin' but a featureless, pockmarked brown slug, now.

But I'll take a large cent, in ANY condition! So far I have three. (The totally-fried, far-worse-than-yours Draped Bust, a decent 1837 Coronet, and a semi-fried 1850 Braided Hair).

I keep waiting to find some of those crisp, pristine early ones like my buddies have found. Hoo, you shoulda seen the 1798/7 a buddy of mine dug. Man, oh man, was it nice. Coin World did an article on it!

 

[Nana40]

Me too! I'd love to find one of those....even fried!

Great! Congrats! Nana

 

[bryan]

i have a regular old penny that i could trade you if you dont like it...

 

[99Brown]

I'd take it. Worn, but still a goodie!!