When You Find A Really Nice Greenie...
Got a permission yesterday from a friend, so I went right away since the ground is going to freeze shortly. The property has one of the newest houses for about 2 blocks. Most of the others are mid and late 1700s. This place is about 1850.
A bunch of wheaties, a cool marble, and a whatsit. Then this thing pops out. Was only maybe 6 inches down, not much deeper than the wheats. Only my second 2 Cent dug, but wowsa! Pretty astounding high grade when it went into the ground, for sure
Good news. On looking through the Bowers book on Lincoln Cents I did find the breakdown of tin and zinc for the early Wheats! On pages 18-19:
...On July 14, Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeigh officially approved the design. Standards remained the same as for the Indiana Head cent: diameter: 0.75 inch (with a tolerance of plus or minus 0.0025 inch), weight 48 grains (with a tolerance of plus or minus 2 grains), bronze alloy of 95% copper, and now, specifically, a slight alloy c
