There was a surprise package in my mailbox today...
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...inside it was an 1826 large cent.
An AU 1826 large cent. AU55 details, at the very least.
Helluva surprise gift to be gettin' from somebody, right outta the blue, ain't it?
And there ain't no hole in the coin, either.
But the coin came out of a hole.
Tim Buck, aka "phut", one of our MD Forum brethren, just sent me this thing. He found it back in early September, up there in Yankeeland, on a site some of us have begun calling "Tim's Riverbank Of Dreams".
Here's the thread posted when he found the coin.
Here's the coin as he found it, before it spent a few months in an olive oil bath.
You should see it now. Nice, even chocolate brown, just the tiniest hint of microporosity- an amazingly preserved example.
The picture above does it no justice at all. Some of the hair detail on this thing is razor-sharp, despite what you see in the "uncleaned" photo above.
It made my day.
This thing rivals some of the excellently-preserved copper that's been found in our local S. GA soil by my pal Billy Ridenour.
Somewhere around here I have an awesome 1819 that Billy dug which is similarly preserved to Tim's 1826, but it was just a tiny bit more circulated when somebody lost it.
An AU 1826 large cent. AU55 details, at the very least.
Helluva surprise gift to be gettin' from somebody, right outta the blue, ain't it?
And there ain't no hole in the coin, either.
But the coin came out of a hole.
Tim Buck, aka "phut", one of our MD Forum brethren, just sent me this thing. He found it back in early September, up there in Yankeeland, on a site some of us have begun calling "Tim's Riverbank Of Dreams".
Here's the thread posted when he found the coin.
Here's the coin as he found it, before it spent a few months in an olive oil bath.
You should see it now. Nice, even chocolate brown, just the tiniest hint of microporosity- an amazingly preserved example.
The picture above does it no justice at all. Some of the hair detail on this thing is razor-sharp, despite what you see in the "uncleaned" photo above.
It made my day.
This thing rivals some of the excellently-preserved copper that's been found in our local S. GA soil by my pal Billy Ridenour.
Somewhere around here I have an awesome 1819 that Billy dug which is similarly preserved to Tim's 1826, but it was just a tiny bit more circulated when somebody lost it.
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O.K.----------Let us see it!!!!!!
Just Tim's pic, showing it as it was when it came outta the ground.
Here's the 1819 my local pal Billy found, though.
(Camera versus scanner- I still have a long way to go in the photography department):
I bought a detector a little over a year ago, we have some beach property, so I figure I'd be rolling in rings, coins and watches by now..........nope.
the first time out I tossed a nickel in the sand to try out my new machine, damn near lost the coin, took me ten minutes to find it..
Herb