Leave-No-Coins-Behind
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Today, I went to a newer school that was built on old wooded land. Finds were scarce so I started detecting on graded hillside adjacent to the school property. I was basically digging high conductors or deep lower conductors.
I got this 22/23 type signal thinking it might be a zinc but the footprint was a bit larger for that, so I started to did it up. About 7-8" down I saw this brown greenish coin, I was thinking it was a large cent.
When I got home I started the cleaning process. The coin is heavily corroded so I began doing an electrolysis. In short, it appears to being identify as from the shield on the reverse side as a 1787 New Jersey Colonial.
The area this coin was found would be prime for time period I was detecting. I am planning on attempting to clean it some more on another day.
I have attached a facsimile of what it should look like and a brief description about it.
It was a nice surprise in finding this early copper today!
New Jersey Coppers History: The New Jersey coppers, struck in 1786, 1787 and 1788 are among the most well known of all early American coins, and circulated widely for a long period of time. Struck at various locations in the state of New Jersey these copper coins were well accepted throughout the North-East. They were minted by businessmen Walter Mould, Albion Cox and Thomas Goadsby, who had been authorized to strike copper coinage on June 1, 1786. Per the law, 3,000,000 copper coins, each weighing 150 grains of pure copper, were to be struck during the next two years.
New Jersey copper coins all share the same motif, although many varieties exist, and most of the coins will have a distinctive look. The dates that are listed on the coins bear no resemblance to the actual date that the coins were struck, although production was limited to these years only, as per the law signed in 1786. A new law was signed into effect on November 22, 1786, before coinage commenced, as Mould appears to have gotten into disagreement with his other partners, Cox and Goadsby.
I got this 22/23 type signal thinking it might be a zinc but the footprint was a bit larger for that, so I started to did it up. About 7-8" down I saw this brown greenish coin, I was thinking it was a large cent.
When I got home I started the cleaning process. The coin is heavily corroded so I began doing an electrolysis. In short, it appears to being identify as from the shield on the reverse side as a 1787 New Jersey Colonial.
The area this coin was found would be prime for time period I was detecting. I am planning on attempting to clean it some more on another day.
I have attached a facsimile of what it should look like and a brief description about it.
It was a nice surprise in finding this early copper today!
New Jersey Coppers History: The New Jersey coppers, struck in 1786, 1787 and 1788 are among the most well known of all early American coins, and circulated widely for a long period of time. Struck at various locations in the state of New Jersey these copper coins were well accepted throughout the North-East. They were minted by businessmen Walter Mould, Albion Cox and Thomas Goadsby, who had been authorized to strike copper coinage on June 1, 1786. Per the law, 3,000,000 copper coins, each weighing 150 grains of pure copper, were to be struck during the next two years.
New Jersey copper coins all share the same motif, although many varieties exist, and most of the coins will have a distinctive look. The dates that are listed on the coins bear no resemblance to the actual date that the coins were struck, although production was limited to these years only, as per the law signed in 1786. A new law was signed into effect on November 22, 1786, before coinage commenced, as Mould appears to have gotten into disagreement with his other partners, Cox and Goadsby.