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Interesting holed coin find - Mass 1787 Cent, Arrows Right Claw

raytronxraytronx Posts: 6
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Found this at a beach on Vancouver Island, Canada. Turns out its a rare variety or maybe a replica of.
Makes me wonder about who lost it... When I found it it was after a big storm that washed out lots of sand
and I was finding lots of hundred year old coins at the same time but this was the oldest coin I ever found.



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  • woodwalkerwoodwalker Posts: 297 ✭
    Wow, great find! I just looked that one up and it's very rare. Again great find.
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    very cool, with plenty of detail left!
  • loditomloditom Posts: 684
    Welcome aboard Ratronx and way to start off your first post!!

    That is one sweet find,congrat's and let's see more of what you have found.HH,Tom
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  • DUBBADUBBA Posts: 935
    nice find dude!....love that labrador puffin...with a dog like that you don't even need to shoot a bird so he can retrieve it....hh
    "see ya at the beach"
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  • raytronxraytronx Posts: 6
    Thanks! Was out today but got scunked, still nice to get out this time of year. image
    Definitely will post if I get anything good this season, this is the start of the good hunting season on the west coast.
    All the big winter storms are starting up and the ground gets nice a saturated from the rain.
  • phutphut Posts: 1,087 ✭
    Nice!!
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YOW! image

    That ain't no replica, or if it is, it's a very sophisticated, very old replica, and those two conditions are usually mutually exclusive when it comes to replicas.

    I had a "friend" offer me one he said he'd dug. Obvious fake. He said, "yeah, but I dug it!" (The guy is a proven liar). I told him, "You might have dug it, but it's still a fake." I guess he was testing me. But I also know he would've taken my money if I thought it was real and offered to buy it.

    If yours is fake, it would fool me!

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  • raytronxraytronx Posts: 6
    I figure there is a good chance its real because the day I found it I was finding mostly late 1800s early 1900s coins in the same spot.
    Alot of them were american coins
    There had been an old resort hotel at this beach in that time period so a lot of travellers would have come there
    I doubt people back then would be making replicas. I think someone just thought it would make a neat necklace item.
    I sent it in to PCGS to see what they would think and got back this.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations! You know they'd bodybag it, but note that they didn't bodybag it for bein' fake, so I would actually consider that BB to be good news.

    Spectacular find! If I saw such a coin for sale, I would buy it for my Holey Coin Vest. If I dug one, though, I'd be ecstatic. Don't let anybody tell you that the hole detracts from the coin at all. Sure, it detracts from its monetary value, but not the least bit from its historical interest. What a superb find!

    The fact that it was found on the "wrong" coast makes it all the more fascinating.

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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
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    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • raytronxraytronx Posts: 6
    Thanks, It's always a good feeling to find something old no matter the cash value of it.
    Also when you find something old and interesting you end up learning some history.

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  • TypeMasterTypeMaster Posts: 8
    Great, GREAT find!!!

    Congratulations!
  • TypeMasterTypeMaster Posts: 8
    Found on of these on eBay.

    Interesting!

    Massachusetts Penny


    And another one.
  • raytronxraytronx Posts: 6
    Hi Typemaster, those ebay ones are the common arrows in the left claw type. Mine has the arrows transposed like in this link.
    http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/massachusetts_coppers/1787_ma_cents/1787_ma_cent_ryder_02a_F.htm
    If mine didnt have the hole I would be driving a car likes yours, image
  • TypeMasterTypeMaster Posts: 8


    << <i>Hi Typemaster, those ebay ones are the common arrows in the left claw type. Mine has the arrows transposed like in this link.
    http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/massachusetts_coppers/1787_ma_cents/1787_ma_cent_ryder_02a_F.htm
    If mine didnt have the hole I would be driving a car likes yours, image >>



    Thanks for the update. I don't know much about colonials but yours is a thrilling find. I am jelous!

    And you can drive a BMW like mine. There only about 25K now pre owned.
  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even if you could find one just like it on eBay you FOUND yours and that is a heck of a lot more fun for a detectorist.
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  • TypeMasterTypeMaster Posts: 8


    << <i>Even if you could find one just like it on eBay you FOUND yours and that is a heck of a lot more fun for a detectorist. >>



    Absolutely agree!

    You could look another lifetime and not find one of these.

    I would be putting this one in a shadow box frame and it would go on the wall in my office! I would probably put a gallery light on it also just so the light would create a halo around it! image
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