Enough to make you cry

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• ArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭

  July 11, 2009 3:19PM

  OUCH
  Looks like a digger and was once a very nice coin

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  July 11, 2009 3:29PM

  Yep. Was probably lost before the turn of the century--the 19th century. Must have been dug in one of the colonial states. --Jerry

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,860 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 11, 2009 10:11PM

  It's still a neat metal detector find.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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• Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭

  July 11, 2009 11:38PM

  I agree, there's a lot of nice detail where the coin hasn't corroded away.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 11, 2009 11:43PM

  After a century or two in the ground, copper can tend to get a bit crusty.... Nice coin anyway..... Cheers, RickO

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,888 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 12, 2009 12:14AM

  Yep. There's a ground find, all right.
  
  You found it in a bulk lot? Cool. Celebrate what it is (a very neat bulk lot find, for probably not much money), rather than what it once was.
  
  Lamenting what used to be is sort of like holding a classic type coin in AG or Good condition and thinking, man, what a shame- this was once MS65!
  
  (The analogy only goes so far, though- I realize wear is not as lamentable as corrosion or other problems.)
  
  

  
  
  

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