I found this coin metal detecting

Any ideas what it may be? it has stars on the left and right side of outline of the head. My thoughts are that it may be a capped bust half dollar. The back has no features to see at all. I know it is not much to look at, but I sure would like to know what it is. Thanks for any help with this.

 

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It is actually a large cent. It looks to be a coronet head large cent, which ran from 1816 to 1839. The date will probably never be retrieved, but it is still an amazing metal detecting find!

 

You have amazing perception. I had no clue until I read your post. Now it’s plain as day.

 

This is an interesting coin to me. I marveled over a late 18th century copper @lordmarcovan found in Georgia that appeared to be a near perfect. And this one that is so corroded it is near unrecognizable. Soil chemistry can sure have different affects on coins.

 

Far from being an amazing find, its a corroded copper coin barely 200 years old.
Scrap copper.

From the pics, I could see what it was right away and I'm not from the US.

If I so wish I could take my metal detector from my attic and walk less than half a mile into the surrounding fields and find Roman and Celtic coins and artifacts within hours, and most definitely coins from the last 500 years and no one would bat an eyelid.

I choose not to because I'm busy, emptying dead peoples homes and getting coins, banknotes and antiques on a plate

The coins in the fields can wait until I retire.

 

Well , Hooty Tooty for Youty.

 

That's a great find! I wish I could find something like that! I'd still keep it...

 

you can find a great keeper like that in los angeles.shall i give you my adress?lol nice find

 

plus out here you run the risk of Edited
hills ya kNow

 

This was one of my last detecting finds.

I soaked it in olive all for a couple of weeks.

I sent about 600 others to the smelter.

 

You bet you can find old 1700's coinage in SE Georgia. I live in Atlanta, so not much to find, but down where you live in Savannah is where Georgia was started. So, it's no wonder that there's some nice old coins. I also wouldn't be too surprised if you got any pre-US coins from the colonial times.

 

I would like to thank all of you for help in identifying this coin for me, and your comments about it. Other than you know who across the pond. There are a lot of members like me who need help in identifying things that we find. Without your help, and the incredible knowledge that you posses about coins, we would have no idea of what we had found. You folks are the best, and I for one thank you for all your help.

 

Not my fault you can't identify your own coinage.

 

That's why we have coin talk. People helping others like myself who are fairly new to this. Getting real answers instead of flip comments. But thanks for your 2 (cents) worth anyway.

 

Yes sir. That is the one. Looks like it fell out of a pristine PCGS holder five minutes before your buddy dug it up!

 

A capped bust Half Dollar is 90% silver and larger than a Copper Large Cent, they weigh differently too, surely you knew this ?

 

To be fair tho, there was a time in between then and now when bucket loads of large cents were used merely as washers and copper discs. So I can see why some would not start doing back handsprings in excitement up and down their front yard just because they found a single large cent P1 details with severe corrosion.

 

you smelted 600 old coins?

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