Post Your Old Copper

Here's a tough '21 I bought recently. A little porosity but, well, it come with the territory.
Lance.

 

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This has seen better days and a lot of history.

 

Nice coin, and as you say, not common in that condition. Congratulations.
The date itself does not appear scarce as they do come up - I have 3, but in condition ranging from 'bad' to 'awful' - but maybe one day I will get one like yours.

 

Here is a middle date 1823/2. The picture is quite poor (sorry). The coin is better in-hand.

If anybody can attribute the Massachusetts Indian cent, I would be very grateful. Thanks.

Eduard

 

Bought this one when I was just a young kid.

 

Not a prime example but it was cheap and a nice heavy chunk of copper.

 

A lot of oooos and ahhhs comming from this end.

 

bought this one awhile back already share it on the newest acquisitions but figured id post it here as well

 

I like these patriotic tokens too. Another infinite collecting opportunity loaded with history. In mint state they can tone up pretty nice.
Matt

 

Bought for 2 bucks last year....

 

Just got around to taking pictures of this old copper. I spotted it on the end of an "unsearched" roll, and knew what it was. It's an 1882, Snow 2 attribution, Broken 2. Caused by breakage/wear of the die - several have been found, but it's a fairly rare attribution.





I also got a couple mercs in the roll, as well as a couple indians that were a better grade than what I had - a nice surprise since all I really wanted was the S-2.

 

I looked very long for a Vermont Landscape copper, until I found this one that I liked: Ryder-8 variety, Vermontensium.

 

Interesting. Not knowing much about IHCs, is this considered as scarce/rare as the 1887/7 variety? or the 1873 double liberty?

 

According to the Richard Snow attributions book, the 1882 (S1) is more rare than the 1887/7 (S-10), and is equally as rare as the 1873 doubled liberty (S-2). There are, however, 1873, S1a and S1b doubled liberty types, that are much rarer than any of the above. But, I think no one really knows how many of these different varieties/attributions were minted, and some, like the doubled liberty, can only be seen in coins with little or no wear.

I really like searching for and collecting these IHC overdates and varieties, and have several of them now.

 

It looks like an overdate on the 1 of 1786?