A couple coppers

[Jeff R]

Dropped my girls at the mall and ran off to swing!!!!
I went to a new spot I saw on the way.
Someone lost both in the same whole. Well... a couple feet away.

1740 farthing and 1/2 penny. I will be going back and spending some time looking for that 1740 silver!!!!!!

HH Jeff

 

[SteveMN]

Great coins Jeff! Did the one on the left take a beating from or plow?

 

[Homerun04]

Sweet work once again, Jeff....

 

[Ed in KC]

Nice going!

 

[tartan wonder]

well done, 2 king george 2nd.

 

[kgilbert]

Great find!

 

[xlt nh]

Beautiful Jeff!! Congrats!!
HH, Hank

 

[ne_seeker]

A spot you saw on the way to the mall? I love it! Execllent pair of finds.

 

[Kyle in PA]

Congrats to two great recoveries, and congrats to a great detectorist.

I would go back to that site, bud!

 

[MDMike]

I think a badger got a hold of that one coin.

 

[Jeff R]

Thanks all.
I haven't gotten back again ....yet

 

[mxtswinger]

Awesome digs! Looks like someone was peeved at George II as well.

 

[TH_froehlich]

Awesome coins!!!!!

 

[dh8593]

the damage

that coin was most likely defaced on purpose
http://uwex.us/delmarshipwrecks.htm
http://www.treasureexpeditions.com/Deleware_Beach.htm

excerpt from the above link
Within a few days the ship came apart and wreckage was strewn along the beach to the north, almost as far as Cape Henlopen. The passengers' luggage also became flotsam that washed in and out with the waves, until finally sinking to the bottom near the sand dunes or just offshore. But what has become a major coinshooter's paradise was the cargo, carried in barrels, in the Faithful Steward's hold. About 350,000 English and copper pennies and ha'pennies dated 1775 to 1783 were being brought to the United States to relieve the shortage of hard money. At the time we had not established sufficient mints to coin money, so "paper money" was used. The Spanish "milled dollar" was sought after, but not enough of them were available to satisfy this growing young nation.

On the other hand, the copper coins were a source of profit to the minters in England. During the reigns of George II and III they considered copper coinage as "tokens" rather than legal tender. As a result counterfeiting was not illegal, and at the same time there was an incentive to mint them considering that a half-penny contained only a farthing of copper. Soon in England a law was passed against counterfeiting copper coins. The result was the shipping of the copper coins to the "colonies" where the English penny had a value of twelve per shilling. In September, 1785, the barrels of copper coins tumbled from the hold of the Faithful Steward as it broke up, scattering coppers along the beach and just offshore.

 

[Don]

Outstanding!!!!