1776
JRocco
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Image what the world as a whole was up to in 1776...
And it looks like it took them at least 3 tries to get this one right.
And yes I know this is darkside....
edited to add this is a 1776 Russian Catherine ll - 5 Kopeks large copper
And it looks like it took them at least 3 tries to get this one right.
And yes I know this is darkside....
edited to add this is a 1776 Russian Catherine ll - 5 Kopeks large copper
Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
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Very cool.
1776 certainly was a pivotal year, wasn't it. Or maybe that's just our American bias.
While detecting, I dug this holey 1776 Mexico City half-real at a site on St. Simons Island, GA, just a few yards from where General Oglethorpe, founder of the Georgia colony, had his only home in the New World. Of course he was long dead by the time the coin was lost- judging from the other artifacts found on the site, it was dropped sometime in the early 19th century. But oh, the stories it could tell, eh?
I keep it in my detector finds album, and not on my "Holey Coin Vest". But I have a number of others on the HCV that I bought.
The next morning, I went out to the same site and found an even nicer (unholed) 1787, just a few feet away.
But I was quite pleased when my very first 1700s coin find turned out to be a 1776. Not only was that our nation's birthday, it was also 200 years before I started collecting coins in 1976. Though they aren't worth much monetarily, I wouldn't accept a thousand bucks for either of these coins. They're just too sentimentally important to me. I never sell my dug stuff for that reason.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Hard to believe that anything could be chunkier than these Russian coppers, they
are like a discus and I bet you could throw one as far as a discus.
Thanks for the input and as always, your detector finds are always great to
hear and read about
A monsterous two headed eagle? Holding a holy "hand grenade"? Excellent.
Let me add that this piece is much thicker than the 1795 that I have so these are only
averages. These coins have a gripped edge design and are made approximating round.