I'd love to find something nice and colonial, that would also qualify as Dark. Matter o' fact, they just bulldozed a lot here on Saint Simons Island that was the site of Delegal's Fort (British, 1736), and I know a high-grade 1737 halfpenny was found near there. But permission on this new-cleared lot might be tough to get. So I am forced to post some friends' finds, and one of my own, all Liteside.
The cent looks MUCH better than this scan, and was found in the same general area where Billy found this a little while back:
I found this on August 17th, not terribly far from Billy's site:
And Steve Smith (aka "Millennium" on the forums) found this on August 19th, about forty feet away from my Indian cent:
Sorry I don't have any pictures of lovely, sparkling Darkside beauties to share at the moment. As y'all can tell, I've been in "dig" mode lately.
Just received from one of our members (Thank you Dimitri!) in a giveaway, 1984 Greek 1 Drachma KM#118.
Potestas Democraticorum delenda est! Joel 3:10
“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” -Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas
“We Are All Socialists Now" - Feb 16, 2009 cover of Newsweek Magazine
NIce stuff. Now that I have a digital camera I gotta het hooked up with some webspace to store pics to place them on here. Jeez, when I get some spare time??
Numismatic author & owner of the Uncommon Cents collections. 2011 Fred Bowman award winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson award winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca award winner.
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09/07/2006
I'd love to find something nice and colonial, that would also qualify as Dark. Matter o' fact, they just bulldozed a lot here on Saint Simons Island that was the site of Delegal's Fort (British, 1736), and I know a high-grade 1737 halfpenny was found near there. But permission on this new-cleared lot might be tough to get. So I am forced to post some friends' finds, and one of my own, all Liteside.
The cent looks MUCH better than this scan, and was found in the same general area where Billy found this a little while back:
I found this on August 17th, not terribly far from Billy's site:
And Steve Smith (aka "Millennium" on the forums) found this on August 19th, about forty feet away from my Indian cent:
Sorry I don't have any pictures of lovely, sparkling Darkside beauties to share at the moment. As y'all can tell, I've been in "dig" mode lately.
Joel 3:10
“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” -Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas
“We Are All Socialists Now" - Feb 16, 2009 cover of Newsweek Magazine
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South Africa 1934 1/2d proof, mintage "24", PCGS PR66BN
This brings my SA 1/2d proof collection to: 1923,"34, '37, '44, '45, '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58, 59, '60.
only 10 more to go!!
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