1787 - An Equally Good Year

[rod-pa]

Tom_in_CA, you beat me to 1787 !.  but no matter.  Hunting an old site on lunch break today.  Since the original log cabin was torn down in about 1807, everything here is pretty old, and deep.  I had sens at 24, all metal.  any high tones get mixed with grunts because of the depth...and tons of nails.  got this about halfway through my break.

I got to cross another coin off the bucket list today, rough shape though it is. 

Annyway, here is the New Jersey Copper....although the date isnt readable for sure...it"looks" like two tops of 7s where the date should be, so I'm gonna go with that. 

  

[CVISChris]

Pretty cool find and I don’t think Tom will find one In the greater Monterey area.  The shield side is really neat.  

[rod-pa]

I have a copy of the Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins.  a bunch of pages on the known varieties of the New Jersey Copper.  I got these pics from an auction site for this particular variety.  It is a Maris 48 - G.  The number is the obverse, and the G is the reverse, each for 1787, and they are the only ones that match the particulars on my coin.  Pretty cool how it works, and identifies the date 100%.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

haha, great launching point for your post 😆   We have a HARD TIME matching you east coast guys on a date-by-dates basis.  So if I can even TIE any of you, I'll accept that, haha

 

And very few coppers of that era made it out here from the east, or up from Latin America, to Alta CA.  We get VERY few colonial coppers or fractional copper reales here.   We will get busts and early seateds, before we EVER get any LC's or colonial coppers.  The reason is, that since alta CA was at the remotest ends of the earth, in those days, that therefore, when anyone was getting ready to travel here (or send cargo, manufactured goods, etc...) , they had to be conscious of space & weight.  Therefore they tended to reach for a bust half, a gold coin, etc...  Instead of "50 LC's " or "500 LC's", etc....  when getting ready to move their life to the west coast.

[Valens Legacy]

Very nice find for your area for sure, glad it happened to you.

Good luck on your next hunt and keep hitting that location.

[rod-pa]

12 hours ago, Tom_in_CA said:

haha, great launching point for your post 😆   We have a HARD TIME matching you east coast guys on a date-by-dates basis.  So if I can even TIE any of you, I'll accept that, haha

 

And very few coppers of that era made it out here from the east, or up from Latin America, to Alta CA.  We get VERY few colonial coppers or fractional copper reales here.   We will get busts and early seateds, before we EVER get any LC's or colonial coppers.  The reason is, that since alta CA was at the remotest ends of the earth, in those days, that therefore, when anyone was getting ready to travel here (or send cargo, manufactured goods, etc...) , they had to be conscious of space & weight.  Therefore they tended to reach for a bust half, a gold coin, etc...  Instead of "50 LC's " or "500 LC's", etc....  when getting ready to move their life to the west coast.

yes, well you get all the "S" mint and "CC" mint drops.

[Tom_in_CA]

9 hours ago, rod-pa said:

yes, well you get all the "S" mint and "CC" mint drops.

Correct.  We do not allow any of our key date S mints to cross over the Mississippi.  Oh so sorry   😘