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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2970171, member: 10461"]If it's thicker than a modern cent, that would confirm it's an 1860, made of copper-nickel (as the earlier Flying Eagle cents were) rather than bronze, like the coins from the latter half of 1864 onward were.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who cares about the enviro damage. That's a cool find. I have never dug a copper-nickel Indian or Flying Eagle cent, though a friend of mine once found an 1863 in one of my hotspots, using a detector he had borrowed from me.</p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest Indian cent I've dug with a readable date was a surprisingly nice 1868, though I did find a heavily corroded one I think might be an 1864 (bronze).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2970171, member: 10461"]If it's thicker than a modern cent, that would confirm it's an 1860, made of copper-nickel (as the earlier Flying Eagle cents were) rather than bronze, like the coins from the latter half of 1864 onward were. Who cares about the enviro damage. That's a cool find. I have never dug a copper-nickel Indian or Flying Eagle cent, though a friend of mine once found an 1863 in one of my hotspots, using a detector he had borrowed from me. The earliest Indian cent I've dug with a readable date was a surprisingly nice 1868, though I did find a heavily corroded one I think might be an 1864 (bronze).[/QUOTE]
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