Woods Hunt yields Toasty Matron Head LC

[ScaredOfClowns]

Now that the weather has cooled off and the poison ivy and ticks have mostly receded, it felt like a good time to hunt one of my favorite spots in the woods.

I spent about an hour getting skunked with old shotgun headstamps until finally a nice solid 24 VDI signal yielded an old Large cent about 3 inches down.

It's pretty toasty, but if I wet it down and hold it at an angle, I can just barely see the flat-faced profile of a Matron Head (minted 1816–1839) on the front.

Toasty or not, I'm pleased to have found it. It's interesting to think about how different the world was the last time someone held this coin.

Thanks for looking - HH!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

....It's pretty toasty,....

Poor little east coast hunter has to put up with "toasted" LC's. How do you handle the indignity ?

 

[EmuDetector]

Love the LCs, cool find!

 

[moparguy]

"how different the world was the last time someone held this coin"


AINN'T THAT THE TRUTH !

 

[REAL_RAT_FINK]

Nice save! Congrats!

 

[ScaredOfClowns]

Poor little east coast hunter has to put up with "toasted" LC's. How do you handle the indignity ?

I'd trade some toasty LCs to you guys in CA for in exchange for being able to hunt year round!

 

[metaladdict]

I'd trade some toasty LCs to you guys in CA for in exchange for being able to hunt year round!

Too bad there's not much left because of the nice weather...and the redoing everything California Has all this cash to waste installing new playgrounds and football baseball fields

 

[GKL]

Congrats on the LC !!!!!

.....hey, toasty or not, I'd rather have a toasty LC than a mint condition Zincoln any day !