Can you identify this coin?

relayer · January 31, 2003 8:02PM

JohnsCoins · January 31, 2003 8:10PM

Your coin looks like a 1803 large cent. It could also be a half cent. The dia. for the half cent is 23.5 mm and the cent is 29 mm.

John

Gilbert · January 31, 2003 8:39PM

Looks like a very porous half cent to me. The date does look to be 1803 though. The large cent of that date doesn't have a "pole cap," does it? OR is that just a mushy, but huge "bow"? I just can't tell anymore.

I guess that is a bow, the more I look at it; in which case, it more than likely is the cend denomination.

MacCoin · January 31, 2003 9:08PM

I can't make out the date but it does look like a bust half cent from 1800/1808

sinin1 · January 31, 2003 10:01PM

I can't tell if a half cent or cent but draped bust type (1/2 cent 1800-1808) (1 cent 1796-1807)

Looking at the date, I see what could be a 0 over something?

How about a 1800, 80 over 79 or 1800 over 1798 large cent?

Is it yours or an item in an auction (or both)?

relayer · February 1, 2003 5:36AM

Yep, it's an 1803 Half Cent - or at least it was at one time. Just something I ran across and it was hardly reconizable.

It sold for $10.50 though.

1803 Half Cent Drapped Bust

truthteller · February 1, 2003 5:42AM

1803 large cent.

TRUTH

TWQG · February 1, 2003 6:15AM

half cent

Cam40 · February 1, 2003 6:30AM

Wow,Just think.That coin probably had been in the ground two or thee times longer than you,ve been alive before it was metal-detected.
Thats a nice find no matter how much corrosion.You still know what it is and can just barely make out a date.
Now thats a coin with character.

Cam40 · February 1, 2003 6:35AM

How would ANACS / slab / grade it.
FR2 enviromental damage
PO02 corrosion
?

TWQG · February 1, 2003 6:41AM

With a mintage of only 92,000, there's nothing but upside potential here

Conder101 · February 1, 2003 6:56AM

1803 Cohen-1 half cent Rarity 1

Can you identify this coin?

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