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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hoky77, post: 4363379, member: 97374&quot;]I was a new employee at the shop I worked in for 44 yrs. and the metal detecting bug hit our dept. hard after one of the guys bought a &quot;Whites&quot; and took it with him on a vacation in Virginia.&nbsp; He made a huge find in a old foundation&nbsp; and after hearing the stories half the dept. bought a detector. I wanted one but we were expecting our first child and the wife put her foot down even after I told her it would pay for itself. One of our new treasure hunters came in with a Large Cent found on a hunt and was showing it around. I had never seen one and was duly&nbsp; impressed with it&#039;s age so I talked him into selling it to me for a couple of bucks.&nbsp; It was found pierced and had been soaked in copper cleaner and scrubbed with steel wool. (his words) It was really ugly but it was mine. Years later I got a deal on a Dansco and started filling holes. I came upon that forgotten first cent in the jewelry box on our dresser and it found a new home in the 1847/7 hole. Recently I was checking out MA-shops in Europe and cherry picked its replacement, (That was on 3/17 and it is still in customs) so I took a couple of pics of it and sold it on eBay for the whopping sum of $3.81. It wasn&#039;t about making money on the coin but about letting somebody fill a tough variety hole at what they could afford. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today I got a note from the buyer informing me that the coin was a under weight cast replica. He noted the coin weighed in at 10.1 which is light. Jim told me the harsh cleaning was done because there was so much corrosion and it was impossible to tell what was there. I&#039;m of the opinion that the weight loss was because the removal of the heavy corrosion on the coin worked much like a acid bath. Any other ideas?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1102921[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1102922[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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