Historical Find !

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Found this my 2nd season detecting . 2001 , summer > I was detecting an cellar hole (1700s) when I remember almost giving up. I made my way to the main dirt road when I decide to hit a small grassy area which looked like what was an area they might have parked their wagon . Two minutes in, I got a solid 89 (whites xlt) , I dug everywhere , no object. The signal was still there though and shallow .
I scooped once more and felt a large disk in the hole. I looked at it (reverse side first ) then turned it over .Nuts, I got it with the shovel. IT WAS A FUGIO TOO! They only produced 1 date, 1787.

I soon realized how bad the condition was . It's just a Historical piece now. Living in Connecticut has it advantages .
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Not worth much monetarily but historical worth a lot .
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Sal, you're making me jealous. I live in the Keys, so between the salt in the water and the air and the alkaline nature of the soil here, it chews up metal too much to be able to find old coins in decent shape. Heck, I've found what I thought were really old coins only to realize they were shield cents that got left in a salt puddle and were so corroded you could barely read them.

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Oh, you would love it here. Lots/lots of Old Old cellar holes. Old maps online at http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/historical_m ... towns.html

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Great find!
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Thanks Lee !
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