1795 Liberty Cap Large Cent With Reeded Edge

to the CCF. Very nice detecting find.

@CarrsCoins - Appreciate you taking the time to help attribute and explain about these coins. Glad you are here with us.

Wow what an incredible find!

and an amazing find!

it was a 1864 L on ribbon that I found on the ground at a second hand shop near my house. its somewhere in the good or vg range but its pretty problem free. it was in the furniture section, so it probably fell out of a coin collectors desk or something like that. that coin now resides in the "you can bury me with it" part of my collection. that box is all cheap stuff whose sentimental value is much higher than its financial value. I wrote a little blurb about finding it on the envelope so that when my family breaks up my collection they will understand why that one was saved.

Dagwood - glad to see you posted this here.

Carr - I saw this coin when he posted it on a FB group we're both in and encouraged him to post it here. If I understand what you posted, you're saying that S-77 (plain edge) and S-79 (reeded edge) have different reverses. I'm a complete novice with large cents, but I thought the reeded edge used the same reverse as one of the plain edge varieties? Do I have that wrong?

Great find! What type of site did you find it at? I'm on a nearly 200 year old family centennial farm homestead and started detecting late last summer. Can't go 5' in any direction without a hit. No coins yet.

@Windmiller - this is an unusual site - my old map research shows it to be a pioneer homestead barn site circa 1790.the home/cabin was across the road and that is now a modern housing development unfortunately. But this barn site is producing a lot of colonial relics like shoe buckle frames and tombac dandy buttons, crock shards and lots of buttons. very little modern junk except for the occasional tractor part or road junk, like tabs and cans..