1873 S2 Double Die IH penny...

[j.d. in missouri]

didnt post this until I had it confimed, but now I have 2 coin dealers who confirmed my IH penny is a 1873 S2 double die yes!!!!!!!!!!

XF_AU condition even though its green i,b,e,r,t,y doubled take a close look at the "r"

pictur # 2 is an extreme close up and shows marks that you cant see regularly.

[Gregory]

Thats a dandy JD, one of the better ones I have seen

[j.d. in missouri]

2 weeks before I left Pa. jnott a memberat IGH with me contacted me about getting together and detecting, after a few days he called me and said he found a spot and got us permission to hunt, we go there the area is 1,800 acres and we cant figure out where to begin, so we go to a water fountain and I look at a wooded area and I said what the hell lets start here, I took about 20 steps and got a 21 VDI "nickle" strong on my XLT but the depth was 0'0' I move some leaves and there on the ground was a nickle jnott was a few feet away and saw it also I picked it up and it was a shield nickle I looked at him smiled and said were gonna have a good day, I went a few feet more and got another shield nickle, jnott yelled I got a seated dime sure enough I look up and he's picking up a 1876 seated dime right near a tree root, after about a half an hour I got 5 more shield nickles and a 2 cent piece, Jnott got a cool old toy gun, and I looked at him and said I cant believe we havnt found any IH pennies then they started jumping out of the ground they had a thick crust on them so you couldnt see the dates, but i had a bout 12 in an hour and I was swinging near a pipe that was sticking out of the ground, about 1 1/2 feet away was a big tree I got a signal looked down and I can see a coin poking out of a thin layer of moss and a tree root it was the 1873 IH all it had was a light dusting of dirt on it i could see it was perfect. I took it home and cleaned it with water posted the coins and put them away in a coin box, 8 months later 1 week ago I read a story where a guy was looking for an 1873 Double Die IH so I got out the old magnifying glass and sure enough you could easily see the double die on it......and thats how I found it there I also got an 1871 IH in AU condition there that day all the coins were 1860's to mid 1880's.... thank you jnott if it wasnt for you i would have never found the coins...jd

[RingDancer]

That's SWEET!

Pat

[PAPPY]

WOWWWWWWW J.D. REALLY GREAT FIND....PAPPY

[morestuff!]

Great finds! Sounds like a "dream" outing to me. Hope you have many more days like that.

[j.d. in missouri]

thanks guys been offered a pretty penny for this sucker but as of now I'm gonna keep it :) jd

[robzombie852]

hey j.d you already have a pretty penny.

[smudger]

very nice coin

[Gregory]

I bet there are more goodies there JD