A farm field find.

[John M]

Detected my favorite farm field a few weeks back.Came away with some odds and ends,buttons and a few coins.One of the coins was a copper in rough shape but I could see some details on it.So for the past couple of weeks I have been cleaning it up.Many vaseline baths,q-tips,000 steel wool,more vaseline rubbed in and finally enough to determine what it is.
What the coin turns out to be is a 1722-24 Woods Hibernia Halfpenny.I couldn't get a great pic of the coin due to the condition,but under light and twisting and turning it you can make it out.This field has been good to me over the past four to five years as it gets plowed up in the Spring & Fall.

 

[Bentfork]

Nice find.

I wholly agree with your sig line. Folks idea of preservation these days is to leave what relic hunters find in the ground. Eventually it is preserved by having something built over top of it. Or having concrete poured over top of it for a parking lot. That's sad.

G.

 

[del]

thats an oldie for sure John is it where you got the capped bust dime from to.

 

[Epi-hunter]

That is an excellent find! The soil there sure seems to be rough on the coppers, but I can still make out the detail. You did a great job cleaning it up. I can't even imagine finding a coin that has been in the ground that long.

 

[angellionel]

That is a nice one John. You did well with removing the crud to make enough of the details out of it. Very good find!

 

[Jason in Enid]

That's a great find. Too bad the ground is so harsh on the copper. It looks like was in AU condition when dropped, doesn't appear to be a lot of wear or you wouldn't have gotten those details off it.

 

[coinnut]

Hey, that field has some age to it?? That was a real mint copper when lost. I don't get many Hibernias. Great old find. thumbsup01 Hey How's Kenny??

 

[randy]

Nice find. Keep pounding that site.

 

[John M]

Same place Dan. I got both of my Capped bust dimes 1809 & 1835 from the same general area of the fields.

The coppers that come up are usually torn up from the fertilizers that they use in the field.There are many sections of fields to this place and most of them are for crops.Now the silvers the are dug come out nice providing they weren't hit by the machinery.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

nice find! love that button in your avatar too! congrats!
dave

 

[Krom]

My first thought was good idea with that book comparison, John! thumbsup01
Sweet retrieval! :yes:

 

[OkieDigger]

Nice one!

 

[RickO]

Wow... nice old coin.. that field has produced some great finds. RickO

 

[MNDigger]

Congrats on the oldie! Nice job on getting it cleaned up and IDing it!

 

[Islandhunter]

Nice colonial copper!! great job on cleaning it to get an i.d. on it too!! thumbsup01