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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4919291, member: 10461&quot;]King George half<i>pennies</i>, not half cents.&nbsp; There&#039;s a difference, you see.&nbsp; <i>Cents </i>are decimal coins.&nbsp; The Brits didn&#039;t go decimal until 1970. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I dug a few slugs, too.&nbsp; One that came out of an old colonial sand roadbed is French, I think, but it&#039;s hardly got a whisper of detail left on it to go by.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first large cent is like that, too.&nbsp; When I dug it, I could tell it was a 1796-1807 Draped Bust cent- you could see a little bit of Liberty&#039;s hair bow and the wreath, but I made the mistake of trying to clean it with electrolysis, and &quot;burnt it up&quot;.&nbsp; It&#039;s a total slug now.&nbsp; It was in fairly rough shape to begin with, having been found on a riverbank alongside a salt marsh.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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