Hi everyone! I went out yesterday with Danny LaMontagne. We hiked for miles and miles, up and down ridges, through swamps and mountain laurel to hunt for colonial relics and cellar holes. I found my very first New Jersey Colonial Copper, dated 1787, at a very small and old site. It was about 10 feet from the cellar hole at the base of a small tree at the third site we visited. The reverse is absolutely gorgeous. It couldn't have circulated for very long prior to being lost.
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Absolutely beautiful New Jersey Donnie , you definitely earned that one my friend !Your Dandy button is a fine example as well !
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Beautiful coin, could never complain about something like that!Great looking dandy too, looks like it was well worth the hike!
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Well worth the trek thru the woods. That NJ is absolutely beautiful.....
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Thanks Danny. I owe it all to you, my friend. I'm still amazed that you found that site.I wish I had taken a pic of the hole. That was an old one.
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Absolutely beautiful New Jersey Donnie , you definitely earned that one my friend !
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That's a killer NJ.
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Beautiful coin.. congrats!!!
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WOWZA! Congrats on such a beautiful coin! The details are amazing.I wish the one I found looked like that!
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WOW! I've never seen a NJ in that great shape!
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Thanks everyone. I used a cleaning method that I learned from Danny LaMontagne. I heated the coin up multiple times with a heat lamp and gently removed the concretion from the obverse. This took multiple attempts and patience. The reverse was easy. It must have been the side protected from the weather.
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I have never seen an old copper like that! amazing!!
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GREAT COIN!Still on my bucket list! Congrats!
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Donnie, have you posted this info about your cleaning methods on the " cleaning forum" if not I'd like to read about it and follow up.. amazing job
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I used Danny LaMontagne's (del) "heat lamp" method which he posted in cleaning methods. The only thing I used was a heat lamp and tooth picks. I had to heat the coin up multiple times on the obverse and scrape away the hard layer with a tooth pick. The reverse was easy and I only had to heat it up once just to dry out the dirt.
One caution: I got lucky in that the corrosion was not under the patina. If the corrosion is under the patina then the patina will come off when it dries out leaving a "dead" coin.
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Never had luck using a tooth pick. Will have to try the heating method.
Whoa!!
Was the cellar hole out in front of the mint?!
That coin didn't see too many hands before being lost. Its in great shape with next to NO wear! Amazing!
Congrats!
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Wow, that New Jersey copper is GORGEOUS!
That's the kind of find we all dream about. It had to have been dropped son after it was minted. Incredible find!
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Congrats on a first, it is an amazing find, WTG.
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Thank you! I'm still in shock. Yes, I don't think it circulated very much before it was lost next to that cellar hole. If only it could talk.
Thank you! I wish we had found the mint!Wow, that New Jersey copper is GORGEOUS!
That's the kind of find we all dream about. It had to have been dropped son after it was minted. Incredible find!
Thank you! I'm still on Cloud 9!
Was the cellar hole out in front of the mint?!
That coin didn't see too many hands before being lost. Its in great shape with next to NO wear! Amazing!
Congrats!
Danny has taught me more about cleaning coins than anyone. I wish I hadn't experimented (and ruined) so many nice ones over the years.
I fell in love with the Jersey Coppers the first time I saw one. I really wanted to find one but I was in shock when I saw that shield.Never had luck using a tooth pick. Will have to try the heating method.
I really got lucky. Thank you!GREAT COIN!
It was all luck. It was deep and reading like a coin or a bent nail. It read enough like a coin that I decided to dig it.
Thank you!!
I just got lucky, really, really, lucky!
WOWZA! Congrats on such a beautiful coin! The details are amazing.Thank you!
I still can't believe it. If Danny had said, "walk that way nine miles and you will find a Jersey copper," I would have ran!That's a killer NJ.
It's definitely a day, and a find, that I will never forget. Thank you!Well worth the trek thru the woods. That NJ is absolutely beautiful.....
Beautiful coin, could never complain about something like that!
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