Posts: 39
Wayland, Mass.
Detector used: Minelab Explorer II
|
 |
Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:34:05 PM |
|
Research and hard work finally paid off in a huge way !!!!
I was finding mostly late 1800's relics and coins but knew the area was farmed as early as the 1640's so the potential was there for something really old to come out of the ground. I have been dreaming of finding one of these coins for years. I have seen 'Tree Coins' dug by other hunters which was quite a thrill. But, nothing compares to locating and digging one for yourself.
It's a 1662 Oak Tree Two Pence. It's the tiny thing next to the Barber and Mercury dimes. It's not in great shape but it's not holed or bent and it's the prettiest thing I've dug in the 30+ years that I've been detecting and I couldn't be happier !!!
Thanks for looking and Happy Hunting !!!
Brian in MA
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 398
North Carolina
Detector used: Tejon, & Nautilus DMC II B
|
|
Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:36:01 PM |
|
Congrats Brian! Those are nice finds!
Mike
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 1974
Southern, CA
Detector used: Minelab Explorer SE Pro; X-1 Target Probe; Coiltek Platypus Elliptical, Sunray Stealth X8, Exp. II 1050 coils
|
|
Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:37:10 PM |
|
Come On!!  If that's the best thing you have found in 30+ years of detecting, then it deserves a better pic. Let's see a closeup of the front and back of the coin!! I'm sure the mods would love a good pic of it for the BANNER!!!  Being on the West coast, I've never seen this type of coin before. Congrats, CAPTN SE Dan |
|
|
|
|
Posts: 609
Houston Area
Detector used: ACE 250, Vibraprobe 570, My Melon
|
|
Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:38:26 PM |
|
Very Nice finds - Thats an oldie for sure!
Congrats on digging on of your dreams, research pays off in the end.
|
|
|
|
Posts: 861
Virginia Beach
Detector used: Excal 2 and E Trac
|
|
Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:40:46 PM |
|
holy cow, that is a BEAUTIFUL find for US soil. And I whole heartedly agree, we need a better picture!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:43:37 PM |
|
WOW!
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 203
Baltimore/Cambridge, MD
Detector used: ACE 250
|
|
Reply To This Topic #6 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:43:51 PM |
|
Incredible find. Please post a close up of it so I can drool some more.
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 1327
Detector used: Explorer
|
|
Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:44:26 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Looking for that ONE find. Posts: 4653
South Central Kansas
Detector used: T2 and X-Terra 70
|
|
Reply To This Topic #8 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:45:26 PM |
|
Picture, Picture, please. a close up. Your teasing us I can't wait to see a close up.
Burdie
|
|
|
|
Posts: 185
Issaquah washington
Detector used: Whites DFX
|
|
Reply To This Topic #9 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:50:51 PM |
|
Thats a serious dig, great find!
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 75
Peoples Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Detector used: XTERRA 70 & Minelab Advantage
|
|
Reply To This Topic #10 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:54:28 PM |
|
Outstanding find! My son and I found two 1788 Massachusetts cents last week, but both are pretty much unreadable. So at over 100 years older, I think your find is in incredible shape. You should be doing the happy dance!!!
Kevin
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 39
Wayland, Mass.
Detector used: Minelab Explorer II
|
|
Reply To This Topic #11 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:55:39 PM |
|
Thanks for the replies guys... I'm still shaking !!!! I used that pic to show the size comparison to the dimes. This coin is tiny. But, since you all want to see close ups. Here they are: (hopefully when the wife gets home with the 'good' camera I can get some better pics...)
What a day !!!!
Brian
|
 1.jpg (68.97 KB, 617x617 - viewed 4203 times.)
2.jpg (65.03 KB, 617x617 - viewed 4170 times.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 3838
Hagerstown, Maryland
Detector used: XLT, Tesoro Silver Max, Treasure hunter Any time, any place!!!
|
|
Reply To This Topic #12 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:56:55 PM |
|
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That baby deserves a photo close up and all by itself!!!
Allowing us to drool!
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 3838
Hagerstown, Maryland
Detector used: XLT, Tesoro Silver Max, Treasure hunter Any time, any place!!!
|
|
Reply To This Topic #13 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:57:40 PM |
|
Just a minute too late. LOL
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 1327
Detector used: Explorer
|
|
Reply To This Topic #14 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:57:47 PM |
|
Dude, there ain't nothing wrong with that detail. |
|
|
|
|
Posts: 1974
Southern, CA
Detector used: Minelab Explorer SE Pro; X-1 Target Probe; Coiltek Platypus Elliptical, Sunray Stealth X8, Exp. II 1050 coils
|
|
Reply To This Topic #15 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:58:04 PM |
|
FIND OF A LIFETIME!!! WOOO HOOOOO!!!!!  I'm excited for you, Brian!!! Thanks for the enlarged pics!! This will be a day you will never forget!! The Oak Tree twopence is both the simplest and the most complicated coin in the series. It is simple because there was only one obverse die and one reverse die, thus there is only one possible combination. However, Noe distinguished six different states in the recutting of the reverse die and gave each state a number (Noe 29-Noe 34). Since then other intermediary stages have been described, several of which are not recuttings but show the growth of a die break that occurred between the A and the N in "ENGLAND." Many extant examples of this coin are worn and it is virtually impossible to assign a precise number to them. An unusual situation when only one set of dies exists! This situation led Michael Hodder to publish his "Plea for Reason" in the use of the Noe numbers [Michael J. Hodder, "A Plea for Reason," The Colonial Newsletter 34 (November 1994, serial no. 98) 1476]. This coin is the only twopence denomination in the New England silver series and is the only coin in the series to bear a date other than 1652 (it is dated 1662), thus it is highly sought by collectors, but probably the most difficult coin to catalog in a precise fashion given the current taxonomy.CAPTN SE Dan |
|
|
|
|
Posts: 2338
Central Ohio
Detector used: Garret ACE 250
|
|
Reply To This Topic #16 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:58:11 PM |
|
Holy #$%^!Congratulations on a Banner find. That is definetly an old one, even though I have no idea what you found.  |
|
|
|
|
Posts: 274
Bureau County, Illinois
Detector used: Ace 250
|
|
Reply To This Topic #17 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:58:44 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 1327
Detector used: Explorer
|
|
Reply To This Topic #18 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 01:59:31 PM |
|
Holy #$%^!Congratulations on a Banner find. That is definetly an old one, even though I have no idea what you found. That might be the quote of the week.  |
|
|
|
|
Semper Fi! Posts: 1769
Richmond, Indiana
Detector used: Minelab Explorer XS-2, Garrett Ace 250
|
|
Reply To This Topic #19 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:01:14 PM |
|
Has to be a banner find, congrats on a sweet find!!
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 861
Virginia Beach
Detector used: Excal 2 and E Trac
|
|
Reply To This Topic #20 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:01:48 PM |
|
shes a beauty, banner please?
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 1360
Tn
Detector used: Garrett GTA500
|
|
Reply To This Topic #21 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:02:42 PM |
|
Brian, That's the year I was born. I think you should give it to me as a birthday present.., well it was wortha try right?  Super nice find. joe |
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble ...Job CH. 14
|
|
|
Posts: 1547
Manhattan
Detector used: Fisher 1280x
|
|
Reply To This Topic #22 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:12:01 PM |
|
Super great find, congratulations to you peanut695 Glenn |
|
|
|
|
So many colonial sites to hunt....so little time. Posts: 2454
(below) 1786 Vermont copper. Found August 2007
Detector used: Whites DFX (with 4x6 shooter DD coil and 12" spider coil)/Whites coinmaster 6000 Di
|
|
Reply To This Topic #23 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:12:56 PM |
|
Awesome find. That one's gotta be at the top of everyone's list. Definitely a banner find. Congratulations |
Large copper total for 2008 --7
1797 Draped Bust large cent
1809 Classic Head half cent
1787 New Jersey copper (Maris 63-s variety)
1845 Braided hair large cent (holed)
1835 hard times token (Walsh's General Store)
No detail coppers--2
|
|
|
|
|
Reply To This Topic #24 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:17:57 PM |
|
Congratulations on a fantastic find! It was worth the wait!
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 5150
NJ
Detector used: XT70 SOV. GT
|
|
Reply To This Topic #25 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:18:55 PM |
|
|
Live your life in such a way, that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, satan shudders and says, OH CHIT, SHE'S AWAKE.
|
|
|
Posts: 938
Detector used: White's XL-PRO
|
|
Reply To This Topic #26 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:37:56 PM |
|
You did it my man. That would be at the top of my list if in fact I lived in your neighborhood. That's worthy of a gold medal if detecting was an event in the olympics .Well it deserves banner for sure. Take a close up of just that coin so it can make banner. Congratulations and I'm happy for you.
Chris
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 380
The Dirty Shire
Detector used: Whites IDX Pro
|
|
Reply To This Topic #27 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 02:52:42 PM |
|
amazing find
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 854
schwenksville pa
|
|
Reply To This Topic #28 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 03:01:26 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 512
Banning, Ca
Detector used: Minelab 2100v2; Tesoro Silver uMax
|
|
Reply To This Topic #29 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 03:14:03 PM |
|
AWESOME FIND!!!!!! And what a wonderul piece of history you have found!!!! I am anxious to find out what kind of monetary value this little coin could bring???
Congrats on a super find! Makes you wonder if there are a few more out there just waiting for you....
Ray
|
|
|
|
|
Posts: 3275
Samammish, WA
Detector used: Minelab Explorer SE, Tesoro TigerShark
|
|
Reply To This Topic #30 Posted Aug 10, 2008, 03:19:56 |
| | |
