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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 5398654, member: 10461&quot;]I found a 1738 George II halfpenny down here (and a 1730 KG2 farthing in England).&nbsp; Those King George coppers are fun!</p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, that ca. 1300-1310 medieval penny I dug in England is <i>not</i> the oldest coin I ever found, though it is my oldest <i>silver</i> coin found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nor was the oldest coin I found (a Roman) found in the UK.&nbsp; It was found <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/">right here in <i>Georgia</i></a>, of all places!</p><p><br /></p><p>But that was an &quot;eyeball&quot; find.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t even have my detector with me that day, though I was out scouting detecting locations and was on a colonial site.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-i-call-this-one-the-coin-1998.287817/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-i-call-this-one-the-coin-1998.287817/">My oldest coin found in the US</a> with a detector is from 1658, at an old lost Spanish mission site that was burned by pirates in 1684.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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