Yesterday we were invited over a friends home who likes near Denton Md. On the Choptank river. They live up river above Denton closer to the head waters. The Choptank flows down to the Chesapeake Bay through quite a few towns as it widens before entering the Chesapeake . One major shore towns is Cambridge Md. Also found near by was an English shilling . The two specimens were found by a metal detector . Not sure of the date , however you can make out part of America on the surface . Images from my phone not great but still a cool find.
Cool. Looks like an 1820s-30s Coronet head. Any data on the shilling? My dig buddies find stuff like this occasionally. They hunt some interesting sites.
I would soil my breeches and laugh it off if I found 1798 cents like those. Those appear to be from the same die, albeit struck at different times in the die life from the expanding crack on the reverse.
Yes, those are both S-166 cents with the telltale die break. Enough high grade examples have turned up here in coastal GA that I have a pet theory that a keg of them must have been shipped to Savannah or Darien from the mint. A killer 1798/7 has also been found. There was a counterfeit 1775 British halfpenny in the same hole with it. I've only dug one Draped Bust cent personally, and mine is a "burnt up" slug. The Ridenour gang (a father/2 son trio) find all kinds of goodies, though. They're hardcore relic hunters.
Walt said the guy found both coins pretty close to each other. The person tried to clean it and ruined the specimen. This area is well known for have early English settlements . Some of the earliest settlements were in the 1630's As Kent Island was. The native Americans of this area date back some 12,000 years.
Someone must've been trying to make change for a large cent but didn't have a half cent lying around...
Denton, Maryland? Wow! It has been more than 50 years since I went through Denton. We used to take the Rte. 404 cut-off from Rte. 50 as a short-cut to get to North Ocean City. Chris
Chris Denton is around 50 miles from my drive way. Rehoboth beach is exactly 100 from drive way to high water mark on the beach. Most of the time on a day trip down we go to the Delaware beaches 35 miles closer and depending on traffic under a 2 hour trip. Now 404 back in the day was the secret way to cut off the traffic back ups. Speaking of just the one bay bridge....days. Even after 1972 when the 3 lane bridge was built sneaking down through Delaware was a lot faster then dealing with the back ups in Cambridge and the other towns 50 ran through . Just yesterday I learned because I don't get down that way much they are making 404 4 lanes two east and two west....it's about time. I only hope they build bypasses through Georgetown and Bridgeville. Denton has a bypass around town .
