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    This wasn't even on my bucket list!

    This coin wasn't on my bucket list because I didn't know it even existed until I looked it up!
    Last year I had gotten permission at a fairly old house in town, don't know how old but the owner told me stories he'd heard about horse drawn sleighs coming to the house in winter, but when I went to hunt there all I can find are memorial cents about 3'' down. I figured that it had been detected before but I gave it a couple hours anyway. Found about a dozen lincolns.
    Fast forward to this year, I've been able to get out every month so until march when I had a total knee replacement. That slowed me down for about 4 weeks. Then one day I drove by the house and decided I needed to check it out some more. So I had some time on Sunday to get out and it was more of the same. More lincolns. About an hour in I get a nice coin signal and pop out a plug and find a little nail. I thought that no way was that signal from that tiny coin so got back in the hole and found a coin. I picked it up and thought I'd finally found a quarter until I started rubbing it and saw a green color. WTH! I rubbed it a bit and could see a left facing bust. That's when the words draped bust popped into my mind but I thought large cents were bigger. After some cleaning on the back I could see "half cent" on the back


    An 1804 draped bust half cent! Full terminology would be an 1804 draped bust half cent crosslet 4 with stems!
    I was floating for 3 days after this coin. I'll do a full write up about this house when I'm done with it. Sorry about the long post but I'm still pumped about finding it


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    Administrator del's Avatar
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    beautiful half cent Groundhog I would love to see it when the dirt is all cleaned off , big congrats !
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    Dude what a great coin! Beautiful!!!!
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    Great find, great shape, great coin.
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    Never seen a half cent with that much detail!!!
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    Really is an awesome coin! Last one I saw dug up was unrecognizable. So very sweet.

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    Wow, incredible find, Congrats! I never would have guessed one of those would be found around Wis much less in such great condition!
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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    beautiful half cent Groundhog I would love to see it when the dirt is all cleaned off , big congrats !
    So would I but I'm not sure how to do that with these old coins with out damaging it. Thanks


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucknut View Post
    Dude what a great coin! Beautiful!!!!
    Thanks! I'm surprised that I didn't startle some neighbors when my jaw hit the ground when I realized what it was


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    Quote Originally Posted by aloldstuff View Post
    Great find, great shape, great coin.
    Thank you! I think finding it in a house yard that wasn't manicured helped


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    Quote Originally Posted by OxShoeDrew View Post
    Never seen a half cent with that much detail!!!
    Thanks Drew!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Noah View Post
    Really is an awesome coin! Last one I saw dug up was unrecognizable. So very sweet.
    Thanks Noah!Still shocked myself. I have a hard enough time finding wheaties much less something like this coin. And I haven't found one in this yard


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    Quote Originally Posted by Digger_O'Dell View Post
    Wow, incredible find, Congrats! I never would have guessed one of those would be found around Wis much less in such great condition!
    Thanks Chris! That's why I didn't realize what it was. I knew of the draped bust large cent but didn't realize that there was a half cent also


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    That is awesome, very nice!
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    Super congrats. I hunted Maresan once but only found a Rosie. I did not know either that there was a flowing hair half cent. That is a great coin an would get anyone pumped. Fantastic WD
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