Recent Metal Detecting Find: 1795 LC

I've become a metal detecting addict since I got a detector last Christmas. So I can really appreciate what it takes to make a find like that! Short of a gold coin, I'd call that a MD find of a lifetime as far as coins are concerned.

Water and a soft brush are worth trying, but I doubt it will clean up all that much doing that. At least I haven't had much luck with wheats that have been in the ground for only a fraction of the time that this coin has.

Here is a link to a website put together by a guy who is a master of cleaning up metal detecting finds. I'm giving this link for info only. I really don't know if I'd try any serious cleaning techniques on this coin. It is more the kind of thing I'd do to clean up a common date silver coin or IHC.

http://metaldetectingworld.com/clea...n_coin.shtml

What kind of metal detector do you use?

Thanks for all of the comments folks.

Adrew: I use a nautilus DMC II b. It works extremely well in the tidewater and low sandy areas on the east coast. Unfortunatly, I'm currently closer to the Appalachians, and the red soil found in some areas here in central virginia doesn't agree with it. Fortunately, the site I'm searching has a rich black loam for the topsoil. I've found that copper coins coming out of the clay rarely have any details, even to the point where I can't tell what variety they are.

Albumcollector: The site is an old plantation home-site. I stumbled upon it looking for civil war relics. I knew from my maps that there was one in the general area, but the section I was hunting is probably about a square mile in area. The old buildings are gone and its now just a grassy field on a hillside.

If you folks are interested, I've got some other items I can post, or you can check out my page on facebook: ryansrelics at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Fa...164412379635 . But alas, I have to go mail some ebay items, hit the bank, then, since schools on fall-break, I'm off to hit the woods with my metal detector again.

Thanks again for all the comments,
Ryan

Wow! I wish we could use detecters around here. Gloucester, York Town, and most historic areas prohibit metal detecting.

thanks pretty awesome, maybe I should try looking one day. doubt I would find anything interesting in NY

Very cool find!

Somewheresouth,
I was just reading in the a copy of Coin World I received.
Quote
"This 1795 liberty Cap Reeded Edge cent certified
PCGS genuine, and one of only eight examples known,
realized $322,000 at auction Sept, 20 in Los Angeles."
Attributed as a Sheldon 79 variety

Also William Sheldon of Penny Whimsy described the coin as

"Sharpness VG7 or slightly better but lightly corroded
with a net grade of Good 4+

Just thought that I would mention that because as soon as I saw
your dug coin I thought I just saw a coin like that yesterday
in Coin World. Worth having checked out maybe.
Still a very cool dig find regardless
Congratulations.

Terry

OK, time to get a detector and a Night Vision system! I'll go to the Park Service again and present that argument to see if I can sway them. Although, I believe Zeewool's statement of a popular national park looking like a mine field is exactly what they're trying to avoid. Oh, and they're still finding cannon balls filled with gun powder occasionally. One guy actually blew himself up trying to disarm one.