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Large cents out of the ground.

ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭
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Show me your large cent that came out of the ground. Here are mine from the last 20 years

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  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭✭

    None to share, but that 1818 must have been close to new when lost....looks to have a lot of detail and fairly clean to boot.

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  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭

    On> @GaCoinGuy said:

    None to share, but that 1818 must have been close to new when lost....looks to have a lot of detail and fairly clean to boot.

    Thought the same thing or it was lost not too many years ago certain soil conditions really do a number on coins

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Depending on soil, i have had some good luck with that, just saying 😉

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,791 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those are spectacular!
    I’ve yet to dig up a large cent. It’s my favorite kind of copper.
    Hopefully this season I can end the streak.

    MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940

  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just pulled two today, along with a Getman 5 Deutschmark and a spill of 20+ wheaties. The wheaties were all from the same spot.

    Got Crust....y gold?
  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭

    @CharlotteDude that's a good day searching

  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    @CharlotteDude said:
    Just pulled two today, along with a Getman 5 Deutschmark and a spill of 20+ wheaties. The wheaties were all from the same spot.

    Wich year was the German coin?

  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Göttinger said:

    @CharlotteDude said:
    Just pulled two today, along with a Getman 5 Deutschmark and a spill of 20+ wheaties. The wheaties were all from the same spot.

    Wich year was the German coin?

    The German 5D is dated 1951. The LG Cents are 1818 & 1827.


    Got Crust....y gold?
  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 19, 2024 7:44PM

    My oldest dug German coin was a 1873 10 Pfennig it is pretty rough

  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    @CharlotteDude said:

    @Göttinger said:

    @CharlotteDude said:
    Just pulled two today, along with a Getman 5 Deutschmark and a spill of 20+ wheaties. The wheaties were all from the same spot.

    Wich year was the German coin?

    The German 5D is dated 1951. The LG Cents are 1818 & 1827.


    Congratulations! I've been metal detecting for over 4 years here in northern Germany and haven't found a silver 5 Mark yet.

  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    @Conshyboy said:
    My oldest dug German coin was a 1873 10 Pfennig it is pretty rough

    It's not that bad, usually they are very corroded and turn a ugly red-brownish colour. The alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel does not hold up very well.
    Also 1873 is a pretty good date. Can you make out the mintmark? It should appeare twice below the eagle's tail feathers. It should either be A, B, C, D, F, G or H

  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭

    @Göttinger said:

    @Conshyboy said:
    My oldest dug German coin was a 1873 10 Pfennig it is pretty rough

    It's not that bad, usually they are very corroded and turn a ugly red-brownish colour. The alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel does not hold up very well.
    Also 1873 is a pretty good date. Can you make out the mintmark? It should appeare twice below the eagle's tail feathers. It should either be A, B, C, D, F, G or H

    Can't see any MM. Which one is the most desirable?

  • GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 46 ✭✭

    @Conshyboy said:

    @Göttinger said:

    @Conshyboy said:
    My oldest dug German coin was a 1873 10 Pfennig it is pretty rough

    It's not that bad, usually they are very corroded and turn a ugly red-brownish colour. The alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel does not hold up very well.
    Also 1873 is a pretty good date. Can you make out the mintmark? It should appeare twice below the eagle's tail feathers. It should either be A, B, C, D, F, G or H

    Can't see any MM. Which one is the most desirable?

    H is by far the most desirable mint mark, but they are all pretty low mintage:

    • A (Berlin) 930.854
    • B (Hannover) 332.581
    • C (Frankfurt) 522.133
    • D (München) 471.683
    • F (Stuttgart) 467.182
    • G (Karlsruhe) 518.543
    • H (Darmstadt) 43.750
  • MaineJimMaineJim Posts: 749 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Only found one and it was in my own backyard!

    Jim

  • ConshyboyConshyboy Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2, 2024 11:17AM

    @MaineJim said:
    Only found one and it was in my own backyard!

    Jim

    That's an awesome coin is the Reverse in that good of condition? I am still searching for a 1700s coin and I have dug alot of coins

  • MaineJimMaineJim Posts: 749 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yea - about the same. It was about 12" deep in sandy soil.

    Jim

  • ebaybuyer2ebaybuyer2 Posts: 29 ✭✭

    ive found three... an 1845 1853 1854 in a farm field, around three inches deep. the fertilizers are kinda rough on them the 1853 survived well though,

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