Ricardo_NY1
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Large Cent & Silver
Took a trip with my good hunting friend Tom and met up with Joe G for a hunt in Long Island. We were swinging all over these grassy areas where farmlands once stood. It was pretty obvious that these places were not going to produce silver, but we kept going anyways. In a signal that jumped from dime to quarter on me came out what at first looked like a clad quarter, then I figured it was a token, but closer examination and weight led me to believe that it was an older copper coin. Tom and Joe looked at it and told me I had a Large Cent. I'm not too familiar with these. I know it's an older coin, but couldn't appreciate the find as well as someone else could've. I took photos in the condition I found it and photos after doing a few peroxide baths and Q-tip treatment. I think I'm going to leave it alone for now. I now know what people mean when they refer to these as a "Look what I found" item. There's just not much left to these things.
The next day I still needed a silver fix bad..........went out to one small pounded little park for four hours and came out with nothing..........two hours later I went to another small park where I had found two rosies and worked it until I found the merc dime below. I don't believe I would've made it home that day empty handed............it was a dig until something comes out kind of day.
Took a trip with my good hunting friend Tom and met up with Joe G for a hunt in Long Island. We were swinging all over these grassy areas where farmlands once stood. It was pretty obvious that these places were not going to produce silver, but we kept going anyways. In a signal that jumped from dime to quarter on me came out what at first looked like a clad quarter, then I figured it was a token, but closer examination and weight led me to believe that it was an older copper coin. Tom and Joe looked at it and told me I had a Large Cent. I'm not too familiar with these. I know it's an older coin, but couldn't appreciate the find as well as someone else could've. I took photos in the condition I found it and photos after doing a few peroxide baths and Q-tip treatment. I think I'm going to leave it alone for now. I now know what people mean when they refer to these as a "Look what I found" item. There's just not much left to these things.
The next day I still needed a silver fix bad..........went out to one small pounded little park for four hours and came out with nothing..........two hours later I went to another small park where I had found two rosies and worked it until I found the merc dime below. I don't believe I would've made it home that day empty handed............it was a dig until something comes out kind of day.
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Congrat's on the silver as well!!
". Without cleaning it off, I said, "That's a freakin' large cent!". Rick was unimpressed 
From what we could see, Tom and I were sure it was a draped. Pretty amazing considering where he found it. That was the last thing in the world I expected to see there. I do believe I will put on the large coil and give that place and the surrounding area the once over just for the heck of it 
