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This is the 1820 small date large cent I found metal detecting last fall (first metal detecting find  ) and the first photos I took of it were horrible, it was covered with dirt, looked completely porous, as I took the photos as soon as it came out of the ground. Heres some better photos with my moms new camera (I came to her house with the baby today, had her watch her anfd hijacked her new cannon   ) anyways after cleaned up a bit (just soaked in water for a while) and a tiny spot of vertigris treated it looks 100% better... so now oppinions on grage might be much easier!! thanks alot guys!! your all the best!!(sorry for all the posts today... its moms new cameras fault! lol)    |
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United States
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Incredible condition for a ground find! XF40
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United States
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Amazing find! I am guessing it wasn't buried? I would have not guessed it was that kind of find.
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Israel
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 with XF40. Nice coin ! |
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United States
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XF-40 details to 45 maybe on a good day is my vote. Wow, what a find! Based on the condition, that coin could have been in the ground for 190 years!
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CoinsKelly- no, it was completely burried.. About 5-8 inches. Gotta love that non acidic western mass soil! (Pioneer valley) I agree on EF, I thought EF-45 but as a metal detecting find I'd be more than happy with EF-40. And as the first coin I've found I'm extremely happy with it! I would have been happy with an AG!! (my friend that brought me with him finds large cents/silver ((nicest a Seated quarter)) weekely in the non winter months, I owe him this find.. Had he not brought me with him.. ) O ya, I was using a (cheaper) bounty hunter ||. Do you guys think this is a canidate for PCGS/NGC? I'd kinda like it slabbed just because it was my first find... See, this is where numismedia.com messes me up.. I find them to be a bit high in prices, better than RedBook but still high.. But they have the 1820 small date listed at $690 in EF-40.. Yet it seems that they go for much much less than that at auction/eBay/LCS's... Am I missing something? |
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If you would like it slabbed for personal reasons, I say go for it. It was an incredible find!
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United States
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Wow, I can't believe this is a dug coin! It's beautiful. Finding it must have been thrilling.
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ThisisFun- I almost passed out.. Lol
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United States
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I'm thinking it might go EF45 - you would never know this was a dug coin from the ground - nice restoration.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Here's the original pic from when it literally just came out of the ground.. Lots of caked on dirt and a spot of verdigris at 2:00.. All I did was pour boiling water over it and all the dirt came off and then dabbed the verdigris with boiling water and a q-tip.. It all came off super easily... I was scared to use any type of chemical on it..  |
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In hand the details look more like before I put boiling water on it, for some reason in the pic the details stand out more in the photo I just posted, but in hand that's the detail it still has... It just doesn't show in the new photos at the top..
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United States
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Wow, super nice for just out of the ground after almost 200 years!
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Wow! The restoration went very well!  It may grade an AU-50. |
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Posted 01/27/2013 8:40 pm
