Check One Off The Bucket List!

[Driftwood]

I found this metal detecting my usual site on Monday... I'm taking Bruce's advice to start a new post for new finds from the same area, instead of adding to the end of the original post. It's an 1865 two cent piece... this one also has that crazy blue/green patina that seems to be common for the coppers there. It's not in the best shape, but it's better than a stick in the eye! Here ya go!

[Ron Kelley]

Great find and I like the patina.

[Driftwood]

Thanks, Ron! The copper coins at this site very often have that nice green patina... very few are crusty. I think it being a place that is sandy soil and where very little agricultural pollutants were used has something to do with it.

[gregszybala]

Nice! 150 year old chump change, cool!

[Driftwood]

Thanks! It seems that in the 200 years this site was active, very little change other than the chump kind were deposited there... I have yet to find anything with more than a nickel face value.

[2ndoldman]

Congrats my friend. I would die/kill/sell my first born to find old coppers in as good condition as that two cent piece.

[Driftwood]

Thanks, Bruce. Don't kill or sell anyone... just take a vacation to Schoharie County, NY! Really though, you have been finding some outstanding silver coinage... something that still alludes me here. I'll keep on swinging that detector... gonna look like s fiddler crab soon.

[2ndoldman]

This is what happens to 99% of my old coppers.
As found. I have to get the pic as they come out of the hole. When they dry out they lose almost all of the detail.
Just a moderate amount of cleaning and this is what I am left with.
Fertilizer and acidic soil is a copper killer.

[Driftwood]

Yeah, that's pretty gnarly... I find coppers like that in other parts of my area, too. Nickels get the worst of it, though.

[CoachG]

Wow that's an old one. Good recovery.

[chase]

Great find! I am with Bruce I would give my left errrrr to find that!