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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinMedic, post: 1684514, member: 46447&quot;]As you probably can tell, I am a new member of the forum. To begin, I am a 20 year old college student. This forum has been a great benefit to me as many of my questions regarding my coin collection have usually already been articulately answered by one of the many experts on this forum.&nbsp; So greeting and a passed due thank you to many of you!</p><p><br /></p><p>With that said, I am getting into metal detecting a bit, and after doing some research on old maps, I metal detected an area that was a well known travel area during colonial times. About 30 minutes into my hunt, which to that point consisted of of nails and junk iron, I hit a really nice silver single on my detector. As I dug, there she was, a 1800 draped bust large cent, I was overjoyed as you could imagine..... but the story gets better. Upon further investigating the hole I had another really sweet silver signal..... and low-and-behold, there was ANOTHER draped bust cent, this one from 1798, in the SAME hole.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (pictures provided below)</p><p><br /></p><p>..which leads me to my question/questions.. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I did quite a bit of research on the areas and these coins have a very personal/historical attachment to me. I wanted to send these coins into PCGS or NGC to get them graded and authenticated and put into these slab holders; however, I understand that these are metal detected coins, but I have not cleaned them and the amount of detail on the coins are remarkable (at least for being in the ground for 200+ years <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). My questions: Would they slab these coins or is the environmental damage to much on these coins, also, does anyone have experience with there restoration services, good or bad? </p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to think I know a decent amount regarding united states coinage; however, once I started reading into the many varieties of the 1800 and 1798 draped bust large cents and the Sheldon series I became a bit overwhelmed and was humbled by the amount of expertise involved in identifying the Sheldon series sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not really sure what I have here (regrading grading, rarity, series, hair type, potential errors? etc.). I tried to do some research on the Sheldon series but I really do not have the best of eyes and some of the differences between them are above my level of detecting (no pun intended, <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)&nbsp; Any information that you might have would be highly appreciated.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I look foward to meeting you all!</p><p><br /></p><p>-coinmedic</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]253071.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]253072.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]253073.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]253074.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]253075.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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